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Chap. III. — Of the Holy Trinity.
Q. 1. Is there but one God to whom these properties do belong?
A. aOne only, in respect of his essence and being,
but one bin three distinct persons, of Father, Son, and Holy
Ghost.
aDeut. vi. 4;
Matt. xix. 17; Eph. iv. 5,
6. bGen. i. 26;
1 John v. 7; Matt.
xxviii. 19.
Q. 2. What mean you by person?
A. A distinct manner of1616 This is that mysterious ark that must
not be pried into, nor the least tittle spoken about it, wherein plain
Scripture goeth not before. 1717 To deny the Deity of any one person, is
in effect to deny the whole Godhead for whosoever hath not the Son, hath
not the Father. 1818 This only doctrine remained undefiled in the
Papacy. subsistence or being, distinguished from the other
persons by its own properties.
John v. 17;
Heb. i. 3.
Q. 3. What is the distinguishing property of the person of the Father?
A. To be of himself only the fountain of the Godhead.
John v. 26, 27; Eph. i.
3.
Q. 4. What is the property of the Son?
A. To be begotten of his Father from eternity.
Ps. ii.
7; John i. 14, iii. 16.
Q. 5. What of the Holy Ghost?
A. To proceed from the Father and the Son.
John
xiv. 17, xvi. 14, xv. 26, xx. 22.
Q. 6. Are these three one?
A. One aevery way, in nature, will, and essential
properties, bdistinguished only in their personal manner of
subsistence.
aJohn x. 30;
Rom. iii. 30. bJohn xv. 26; 1 John v.
7.
473Q. 7. Can we conceive these things as they are in themselves?
A. Neither awe nor yet the bangels1919 We must labour
to make out comfort from the proper work of every person towards
us. of heaven are at all able to dive into these secrets, as
they are internally in God; cbut in respect of the outward
dispensation of themselves to us by creation, redemption, and
sanctification, a knowledge may be attained of these things, saving and
heavenly.
a1 Tim. vi. 16.
bIsa. vi. 2,
3. cCol. i.
11–14.
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