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THat the Worde or sonne of GOD is diuers and distinct from the Father and the Holie Ghost, not in office onelie, but also in subsistence and Person, is prooued by foure Argu∣ments.
* 1.11 None is the same person with him whose sonne hee is,
or with him who proceedeth or floweth from him. Other∣wise, the same thing, in one respect, shoulde bee relatiue and correlatiue. But the Word is the sonne of the Father, and from the Word the Holy Ghost proceedeth and is gi∣uen: therefore the Word is neither the Father nor the Holy Ghost.
2 Christ himselfe expresselie calleth himselfe another from the Father and the Holie Ghost. Iohn. 5.32.* 1.2 There is another that beareth witnesse of mee, namely, the Father, in the same Chapter, vers. 37. And John. 7.16. My Doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. Iohn. 14.16. J wil pray the Father, and hee shall giue you another comforter.
3 The scripture dooth plainelie affirme that the Father,* 1.3 the sonne and the holie Ghost are three, 1. Iohn. 5.7. There are three, which beare witnesse in heauen, the Father, the Word, and the Spirite, and these three are one, Gen. 1.26. Let vs make man in our image. Iob. 10.30. I and my father are one: hee dooth not say am, but are. Iohn. 14.26. The comforter which is the Holie Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, hee shall teach you all thinges. Ioh. 15.26. When the comforter shall come, whom I will send vnto you from the father, euen the spirite of truth, which proceedeth of the Father, hee shall testi∣fie of mee. Matthew. 28.19. Teach all Nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the sonne, and the Holie Ghost.
4 The attributes or properties of the Persons, namely,* 1.4 sending, reueiling, and their offices are diuers. The Argument is this. Whose properties are distinct, they are in them-selues distinct. But the properties of the Father, the sonne, and the Holie Ghost are distinct: therefore the sonne is neither the father nor the Holie Ghost. The Minor is prooued: because the sonne onely, and not the father or the Holie Ghost, was begotten of the Father, con∣ceiued by the Holie Ghost, made flesh; sent into flesh: manifested in the flesh; made Mediatour; baptized; did suffer, and died. The Father of himselfe woor∣keth by the Sonne: The Sonne not of him-selfe, but of the Father by the Holy Ghost; the Holy Ghost of the father and of the sonne. Matthew, 11.27. No man know∣eth the sonne, but the father, neither knoweth anie man
the father but the sonne. These words cannot be expounded after this sort. No man knoweth me, but I; and no man knoweth me, but I. Iohn. 10.15. As the father knoweth me, so knowe I the Father. The sense of these words cannot be this, As I knowe mee, so I knowe mee: The sonne of GOD therefore, Christ, is another from the father and the holy Ghost.
No one person can be both Fa∣ther and sonne in respect of him selfe.
Christ another from his Father.
Three persons expressed in scripture.
The properties of the persons are distinct and diuers.