Sect. 9.
* 1.1It appearing, that there are two spiritual faculties, Understanding and Will, there is no reason to think, that the Understanding, which is most given to contemplation,
Observations, censures, and confutations of notorious errours in Mr. Hobbes his Leviathan and other his bookes to which are annexed occasionall anim-adversions on some writings of the Socinians and such hæreticks of the same opinion with him / by William Lucy ...
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- Observations, censures, and confutations of notorious errours in Mr. Hobbes his Leviathan and other his bookes to which are annexed occasionall anim-adversions on some writings of the Socinians and such hæreticks of the same opinion with him / by William Lucy ...
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should be more fruitful then the Will, which is in its own nature most active; let us therefore consider the produ∣cent and the product, him that understand's, and that Word, which is the product of that Understanding, to be two distinct, with equal infinite excellencies, and all those perfections, which are in the producer, to be in that which is produced, those perfections infinite, it is not possible but that these must infinitely love one the other; for a right▪ well-guided Will must needs affect with Love that which is excellent and lovely, and so affect it, with such a proportion of love as the object is lovely; there∣fore that which is infinitely lovely must needs be infinitely loved; we men should love God infinitely, if the vessels of our souls could contain so great a proportion of that heavenly oile of Charity, the object God deserve's it; but either of these, being vessels infinite, cannot be de∣ficient for lack of love, but can have as much love as the object is lovely, which is infinite; well then, it must needs be, that these two, the producer and the produced, must love one another infinitely, and delight infinitely in one another, the Father in such a Son, the Son in such a Father; this love, with which they affect one another, cannot be an accident, there is none such in God, it must be a substance therefore; nor can it be another substance from the Deity,* 1.2 both because nothing is infinite but the one onely true God, and likewise because there is no composition, either accidental or substantial in God, but whatsoever is in God is God; this therefore must be such, so that the first production being granted, that there are two persons, a producing person and a produced, both in∣finitely excellent, it must follow that there must be a third.
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God's Will as fruitful by love as hi•• Under∣standing by knowledge.
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And so produ∣ctive of a third person, which is likewise God.