b Specie. 'Numa. ro. Ofthe ofthe[reede. 3.Perfons. HI J t~h-at-t-:-he-t"""'h-r-cc-th-;-:-in_g_s.;fi:-a-m:-; .li:::e>d-.:b:y-::;thC::e:tfe'="n=-a::m::-e::s:",;-A~y;:e:t-;t~he:::y:-::; th::r:ee=--a::,e:-;:no:::t:-o:::n:::e:-:::m=an-, lbutC.::-:th~rc:-::e 1 Father Sonne, and h,;]y Ghoft ,. are each of men. Now it isotherwiG: with rhediuinenathem o'ne and.the ftme God.And this-myil:eture or godhead, which is vncrea>edand inn· rie may well bee conceiued by a comp:trifon nitc, and therefore admits neither C(I[Jlpofiti. borrowed from light.The li(lhtof ~he Sun-le, on nl>r di11ilion, but a difl:ind:ion without any the Jightofthc Moone, and the hghtof the fepararion: fo as the three perfons fu!;>Gfling Aire for nature and fi!hfl:ance are one and the in it, lhall not bethre; Gods, b:u: one and the fame'iight: and yet they are three ~iflinCl fame God. lights. The lightofthe Sunne bemg of 1t felfe Yetfi!tther,fome willobied:,rhatitis tmly and from none, the light ofthe Moone from C.id ofthe Father, that heeis God , but the the Sunne, and the lightofthe aire from them fame godhead is got in the Son,nor in the hOboth.So the diuine n.uure isone, and the perly Ghofl:; for the Son & theholy Ghofr haue fons are rhree,fublt!lingafter adiuersm.ume~ tl1eir beginning from the Father• .An[. The in one and the fame nature. Son &the 1'1· Ghofl hme not a.beginning of And for the furtherclcarin~ ()fthis poiBt, their nature,oroftheirgodhead from the Fawe mnft yet further mukand remember tWG ther,but oftheirperfGn only;the pcrfon ()fthe things: namely, the vuioa and thediflinliion B Son i• from the Father; and the perfon of the of the perfons. The vnion is, whereby three holy Ghofl: is blth from the Father and from perfonsarenotonelimply, buton~ in01tu_re, the Son: butthegodhead of all three p~rfons that is, coe!lentiall,orconfubfl:antlall; hJ'ung is vncreate& vnbegotten, & proceeding from all onegodhead. For the Father isGo:l, the none. Yetfomemayfay, both the Sonneand SonisGod,andtheholyGhoftisGod: no;v theholy -Ghofl haue receiued from the Fathere are not three diflinli Gods·, but one theralltheir attribute~, as wiledome,knowGod, becaufe there is one God and na more ledgo, power,&c. Nowh~ that receiueth any in nature, conltderillg thatthe thing which is thing from another, is in that refped: illferiinfinite is but one, audis notfubiea to multiour to him that giueth it : and therefore the plication: and the Fatheris thisone God,as Sonneand the holy Ghoft are notGod as hee alfothe Sonne, an:! the holyGho!l. And as is• ..Anfw.WemL>fuknow that that which the thefo three perfons are innature, fo whatfoeSonoe receiueth ofrhe Father, he receiueth k uer agreesto God GmplyconGaered,agreest() by nature,and not by grace' a~>d he receiueth them all three. They areall coeq!nl & coeternota part,but all that the Father lurh, fauing aall: all mail: wife,iu!l,merci.full,omnipotent, the perfonallpropriety. And the holy .Gho!l: byone and the fame wifedome,iuflice,mercy, C receiueth from the Father and theSoAUe by power. And becauG: they haue all one godnarure,and not by grace: and therfore though . head,thereforetheyarenot onelyonewkhaboth the Sonne a11d the holy Ghoft receiue nother, buralfoeochinother, the Father in from the Father, yettheyarenotinferiourto the Son,and the Sonne in the'Father, and the him, but-eq11all with him. And thus much is holy Ghofr in them both. And we mull not iboth necefUry and profitable to bee learned magine thatthefe three are oneGod,asthogh ofthe vnion bet<veene. the three perfollS in the Fatherhadonepartof the godhead, the Trinide, whereby they being three haueall Son anotherpart, and the holy Ghoft a third. one and the fame godhead. . For that is mo(l falfe, becaufe the infinite and The fccond pointto beconfidcred i.<, that the mail: limple godhead is not fttbiect to ciirhoug.li thcfe threehaue.but one godhead.and· polttion ordi11ilton:but euery perfon iswhole a!I make but one God, yet ~hey are diil:inguiGod,fubltfling110rina part, but in the whole fhed one from another: for the Father'is the godhead:and the whole entire godhead is eoFather,and aot the Son~e orthe holy Gholh municated from the Father to the Sonne, and the Sonne is the Sonne , and ;nor the Father friiboth Father& SontotheholyGho!l. But nor the holy Ghofl : and the holy Ghoft is fomemayyetfay, that this dothine feemes D thehalyG!10fl, not the Father ~rorthe Son. to bee impo!lible; becaufe three crea•ures,as This difrinliion of~he perfons ts~notably fet for example, Peter, P4ul, Tim1thie, bee three forth vnto vs in the baptifme of our Sauiour perfons,& fo remaining, cannot ha!:Ie one and Chrjfr; where it is f1id, that "'htn le{m w.u the fame nature ,that is, the fame body, & the b•pti{ed,~e comeaut •f•h• WAter:there is the fe- Mat.tfamefo"l<. .An[. Threeormaemenmayhaue condperfon: and thehalyGhofl ddcended 16 • 1 1• the fame mtnre (b) i11 kinde, but the truth is, vpon himin the forme ofa doue; there is the theyc.tnnot pofsible haue a nlture which fhall third perforr: and the Father the firili periDn be one and the fame (c)in number, in them all pronoL>nced from heauen, that heewas his three. For aman is a fubfl:ance createdand fionely beloued Sonne i11 whom heewas well nite,•nd the bodiesofmen are quantities,and pleafed. And wee mull not conceiue this therefore diuifible and feparable one from adiflinaion in fuch manner, as though there nother. Hereupon it comes, du.r the pcrfon~ three, Father, Sonnc:, andholy Ghoit, were ofmen are not only diflingJiG>od by propriet~rec names of one God: For the three per- _ tie,but alfo dinided and fundered one from afosdo nottnname or word,but really ~!truth nothCl·. AndrhoughPcrer,PfUil,and Tirn?thi~, diainCl:Iy fltbfill: in the fame diuitlt' nature. haue all one common and vniuerfall forme, Neithc'rmufrweimaginethatthe;. perfons ------------------M 3 >re
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