The su[m] of diuinitie drawn out of the holy scripture very necessary, not only for curates [et] yong studentes in diuinitie: but also for al christen men and women what soeuer age they be of. Drawn out of Latine into Englyshe by Robert Hutten.

¶ Of God

☞ What is God?

GOd is a spirituall vnder∣standinge substaunce, the euerlastinge maker, keper and defender of al thinges, of one endles wysdome, goodnes, rygh∣tuousnes and mercy.

☞Shewe wytnes of the vnite of God.

¶Deut .vi. Heare Israell. Thy Lord god is one Lord, Esai. xliiii I am the fyrste and the laste, and besyde me is there no god.

And xlv. I am god, nor there is no more besyde me.

i. Corinthy .viii. We knowe that an Idole is nothing in the world, and there is none other God but one.

Eph. iiii. One God and father of all, aboue al and by all.

i. Timothe .ii. There is one God and one medyatoure of God and man.

☞ Howe manye persones of the godhead be there?

☞ There is only one godly sub∣staunce, but it is attributed vn∣to

thre personnes, that is ta saye the father, the sonne and the holy goste, which be Homousii, or of one substaunce, lyke vnmeasurable, and lyke euerlasting.

☞ What signifieth a person here?

☞ A person is an vndeuidable substaunce in vnderstandyng.

How prouest y^u that their be thre personnes

Christe cōmaundeth al people to be baptised in y^e name of the fa¦ther, of the son, & of the holy goost. Here by name we these personnes rehersed lyke in substaunce or homousii.

Al••o the profession of the crede te∣stifieth the same. Where we con∣fesse our selfe to beleue in the fa∣ther, the sonne and the holy gost. Math iii. be the personnes mani∣festlye perceyued, when the holye gost appeareth in the similitud of a doue, and the voice of the fa∣ther is herd testifieng of the son? This is my welbeloued sonne. &c. Item Ioan .xv. When the holye

gooste shall come whom I wyll send you from my father. Heare be thre persons ioyned togyther the holy goost commyng or sente, the son sendyng, and the father .i. Iohn .v. Ther be thre whych bere wytnes, the father the sonne and the holy goost. And these thre be one.

❧ What is the father?

❧ He is the fyrste person of the godhead, euerlastyng vnmeasu∣rable vnbegottē and hauing his beyng of no man.

☞ Who is the sonne?

☞ He is a personne of the god∣head. gotten of hys father before the world homousius, or lyke in sub¦staunce vnto his father, and lyke euerlasting.

☞ What signifieth, in the begynnyng was the worde.

❧ Logos, or the word, is called of Iohn the sonne of god, whiche is the fecond person.

Therefore thys is the signifi∣cation,

in the beginning was the word, that is to say, the son of god was in the beginning, & frō euer.

Wherefore is he called logos or the word?

☞ Because he is the personne whiche speaketh, whyche hath e∣uer spoken from the begynnynge vnto the fathers.

☞ Proue that logos or the worde signifieth a person, whiche is by it owne nature God.

Iohn speakethe of the worde that it was in the beginning that is to saye, that it is euerlastyng. Nowe if the worde were in the be¦gynninge before the creatynge of althinges: Therfore it is no crea∣ture, but lyke euerlastinge vnto the father,

Then when he saith: the word was wyth God, Heare doeth he playnely make difference betwen the persones, that the personne of the father is one, and the person of the word an other.

A Thirdly he sayth, and god was the word Heare testifieth he clear¦lye

that the wordeis God. For thys partycle Logos or Verbum is put here in the place of subiectum, lyke as the greke article added therunto doeth shewe. But the particle Deus, is put in the place of predicatum.

After that the said Iohn she∣weth of the word, that he was in the worlde, and the worlde was made by hym, These be the wor∣des whiche muste be necessarilye vnderstanded of a parson, where∣in is godly nature. So the other places also, whyche saye that all was created by the son, testifye the worde to be a persone, whyche is by it owne nature God. For it is certayne that the world was not builded by his manhead. Co∣loss, i. All be builded by hym and in hym, and he is before althyng and al thynges do consiste by him Item Coliss ii. In him dwelleth the fulnes of the godheade corpo∣rally.

Hebru. i. by whom he made also the worldes, whyche is the bryghtnes of shining, and the I∣mage of hys substaūce beryng al thīges in y^e word of his power. &c i. Iohn .i. That which was from the begynnyng, y^t we haue heard and that we haue sene, that oure handes haue touched the worde of life, that do we shew. Iohn vi. What if ye shal se y^e son of a man ascendynge wher he was before? Iohn, xvii. Glorifye me O father wyth the glory, whych I had be∣fore the worlde wyth the. Iohn. viii. I was before Abraham was borne. Iohn .v. Like as the father rayseth vp and quyckeneth the deade: so quickneth the same also whom he wyll. Also what so euer he doeth, that doeth the son also. Iohn .x. I gyue euerlastyng lyfe vnto them, etc. Iohn .xv. He sayeth that he sendeth the holye gost. When the holy gost comfor∣ter

shal come, whom I wyll send you from my father. And a littel after: if I shal not depart: the ho¦li gost cōforter shal not come. But if I shal go, I wyl send him vnto you. Ioan .xx. Thomas calleth o¦penly my Lord and my God.

Rom. ix. Which is aboue al a ble∣ssed God. &c.

☞ What is the holy gost?

It is a godly person, lyke euer∣lastynge, and lyke in substaunce vnto the father and the son, pro∣cedynge from thē boeth.

☞ Shewe witnesses, whyche proue that the holy gost is a personne and by nature God.

I haue said before that the per∣sonnes be manyfestelye deuided, when Christe sayeth: baptisynge them in the name of the father and the sonne, and the holy goste So Mathew .iii. and Luke .iii. The personnes be deuyded. The voyce of the fathere speaketh, of Christe, thys is my well beloued sonne. Here be two distincte per∣sonnes,

of the father speking and testifiyng Christ to be his sonne. Thirdly besyde that also the holy goste is described to appere in the lykenes of a doue whiche is ney∣ther the father, nor the son. Iohn xiiii. I wyll praye my father, and the other conforter y^t he shal giue it you Also the comforter, whom the father wil send in mi name he shall teach you al things Also he shal not speake of him selfe, but he shal speake y^t which he shal heare.

Iohn .xv. When the comfor∣ter shal come, whome I wyl send you from mi father, he shal beare witnes of me. Ro. viii. Ye be not in flesh but in spirit, If so be y^t the spirite of god inhabite you. But if any man haue not the spirit of Christe, he is not hys. Also, if the spirite of him which raised Iesus frō the dead do dwell in you. &c.

These places dooe manyfeste∣lye declare and decerne the holye

gost from the father and the son, and testifye hym to be the spirite of the father and the son. In the same place. Thys spirite gyueth witnes, vnto oure spirite &c.

i. Peter .i. of the which health the prophetes haue sought and sear∣ched, inquirynge in or at what tyme the spirite of Christe shew∣ynge before woulde signifie vnto them those aduersityes which be in Christe.

Heare doeth he clearelye testi∣fye that the holy gost was, before the sonne of God dyd take fleshe vpon hym, and he calleth him the spirite of Christ.

Also in the same places, which nowe be shewed vnto you by thē which haue preached the Gospell vnto you, the holy gost sent from heauen. &c.

¶ Actu. ii. out of Ioell, I wyll poure out of my spirite vpon all fleshe. Geare testifyeth he the ho∣lye

goost, whyche is poured oute not to be the person of the father and yet whē he sayth. Of my spi∣rite, he signifyeth that spirite to haue a godly nature.

☞ Howe proueste thou that the holy gooste doth proced equally from the father & the son?

¶ Iohn .xiiii. the holye gooste whyche the father wyll sende in my name. Then after sayeth Christe. The holy goost whome I wyl sende you from my father Heare testifyeth he the holye gost to be sent as wel from the son as the father.