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VVE beleeue, (a) & faithfully affirme, that God the Father begot the world, his wisdom by which al was made, his only Son, one with one coeternal, most good and most equall: And that the holy spirit is both of the Father and the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, consubstantiall, & coeternall with them both: & this is both a Trinity in re∣spect of the persons, and but one God in the inseperable diuinity & one omni∣potent
in the vnseperable power, yet so, as euery one of the three be held to bee * 1.1 God omnipotent: and yet altogether are not three Gods omnipotents, but one God omnipotent: such is the inseperable unity of three persons, and so must it bee ta•…•… off. But whether the spirit, beeing the good Fathers, and the good Sonnes may •…•…e sayd to be both their goodnesses, (c) heere I dare not rashly determine: I durst rather call it the sanctity of them both: not as their quality, but their sub∣stance and the third person in Trinity. For to that, this probability leadeth mee, that the Father is holy, and the Son holy, and yet the Spirit is properly called ho∣ly, as beeing the substantiall, and consubstantiall holynesse of them both. But if the diuine goodnesse be nothing else but holynesse; then is it but diligent reason, and no bold presumption to thinke (for exercise of our intentions sake) that in these three questions of each worke of God, who made it, how, and why the holy Tri∣nity is secretly intimated vnto vs: for it was the Father of the word that sayd, Let it be made; and that which was made when hee spake, doubtlesse was made by the word: and in that, where it is sayd, And God saw that it was good, it is playne that neyther necessity nor vse, but onely his meere will moued God to make what was made, that is, Because it was good: which was sayd after it was done, to shew the correspondence of the good creature to the Creator, by reason of whose good∣nesse it was made. If this goodnes be now the holy spirit, then is al the whole Tri∣nity intimate to vs in euery creature: & hence is the originall, forme, and perfecti∣on of that holy Citty wherof the Angells are inhabitants. Aske whence it is; God made it: how hath it wisedome. God enlightned it. How is it happy? God whom it enioyes hath framed the existence, and illustrated the contemplation, and sweetned the inherence thereof in him-selfe, that is, it seeth, loueth, reioyceth in Gods eternity, shines in his truth, and ioyeth in his goodnesse.
VV•…•… (a) beleeue] Lette vs beleeue then and bee silent, hold, and not inquire, preach faithfully, and not dispute contentiously. (b) Begotte] What can I do heere but fall * 1.2 to adoration? What can I say but recite that saying of Paul, in admiration: O the deepnesse of the ritches both of the wisedome and knowledge of God! (c) Heere I dare not] [Nor I though many diuines call the spirit the Fathers goodnesse, and the Sonne his wisedome. Who dare affirme ought directly, in those deepe misteries.] (d) Because it] or, because it was equally good.
The holy spirit, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 perso•…•… 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
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