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202 The Life of Faith. perfonor principle in the Trinity ; but as it is pregnant and pro.. ¿alive, it it the third principle of operation ad extra; and fo that it is taken ufually, for the pregnant, operative Love of God, And thus they fuppofe that the Divine POWER, INTEL- LECT and WILL (or Wifdom and Love) areThe three con- ffitutive perfous in themfelves, and the three principies of opera- tion ad extra. To this purpofe write:h Origen, Ambrofe and Richardus the Schoolman ; but plainlier and fullier Damafcene and Bernard, and Edmundus Cantuarienfis, andPaths Prunoenfir cited by meinmy Keafons of the Chriffian Religion, page 372, 373. 374 Auguffine only puttethMemory for Power, by which yet Campanella thinketh he meant Power, (Mstaphyf. par. 2. 1.6. C.12. art. 4.pag88.) what Cæfarius and many other fay de triplici lumine, I pals by : The LuxRadii o Lumen, are thought a tit fimilitudeby many : But the Motion, Light and Heat, is a plain imprtaion of the Trinity on that noble ele- ment offire. That holy man Ephr,em Syrus in his Teftament ufeth the phrafe (in his adjuration of his D,fciples, and the protefimtionof his own f}edfallnefs in the dotrine of the Tri- nity againfi' all Heretics) [By that three - napped fire ofthe moft holy Trinity] (or Divine Ma r(1y as another Copyhath it) [And by that infinite andPole, one Power o fGod ; and by chafe three fub- fftencesof the intelligible (or intellrlual) fire.J Arid as it is a molt great and certain truth, that this facred Trinity of Di- vine Principles, have made their imprefs communicatively up- on the frame ofnature, and moft evidently on thenobleft parts, which are in excellency neareft their Creatour ; fo it is evident that in the creatures LOVE is the pregnant communicative principle : So is Natural Lave in Generation and friendlyLove in benefiting others ; and fpiritual Love, in propagating. know- ledge and grace, for the winningof fouls. What I Paid of the Scripture ufe ofthe word is found in r John 5.5,6,7,8. Heb. 9. 14. rCor.12.2,34.Kom.1.4.7obn I. 32,33& 3.5,34. & 6.63. Gen. 1.2. job33.4. 2Cor. 3.17,18. Luke4.i8.Micab 3.8. Ife.i 1.2. & 61.1. Direct. 2. The ore excellent meafureof the Spirit given by Shrift after bis afee fion to theGofpel Cburch, is to be diffingui b- ed from that whiob was before cotntnunicated; and We Spirit of

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