CHAP. IIII.
I Will now set down some Rules, which will much help us for the un∣derstanding of this Mystery.
1. The divine Nature is not a fourth thing distinguished from the three Per∣sons, but is the same with the three.
A glimpse of God, or, A treatise proving that there is a God discovering the grounds of atheism, with arguments of divers sorts against atheists : shewing also, the unity of the Godhead, and the trinity of the persons ... / by ... Mr. Thomas Byrdall ...
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- A glimpse of God, or, A treatise proving that there is a God discovering the grounds of atheism, with arguments of divers sorts against atheists : shewing also, the unity of the Godhead, and the trinity of the persons ... / by ... Mr. Thomas Byrdall ...
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- Byrdall, Thomas, 1607 or 8-1662?
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- 1665.
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2. Hence each person is very God, because the Divine Essence is the same in each Person.
3. Hence you may see that there is but one God, although there be Three Persons; because they are one with the Essence, which is God.
4. Hence you may see, that all the Attributes given to the Essence, be∣long to every Person; the Father Almighty, the Son Almighty, &c. There is but one Will in them, one Understanding, because there is but one Essence.
5. Hence all their works ad extra sunt indivisa, all their works outward∣ly are undivided, because the Three Persons are undivided in Essence. Cre∣ation, and Providence in One, are the actions of all Three.
6. Hence the Son and the Holy-Ghost are God by themselves, not by the Father. Some say, that the Essence is communicated from the Father to the Son, and from both to the Holy-Ghost; and so they are not 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 God
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of themselves: but I say, Filius acce∣pit filiationem, non deitatem, the Son received his filiation, not the Deity from the Father.
7. Hence the three Persons are 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, of the same nature, Coequal, Coeter∣nal, not one before another in Essence, as the Eunomians falsly held. Not one before another, for in God there is neither Prius nor posterius; not one ex∣celling another in Grace and Dignity, as the Arrians blasphemously held; but they are Coequal in their Divine per∣fections and Attributes, because but one nature or Essence in all.
8. Hence they are one in another, the Father is in the Son, the Son in the Father, and both in the Holy-Ghost; they are still glorifying and delighting one in another.
9. These three Persons in the Di∣vine Essence are not confused, or se∣parated, or imaginary, but are really subsisting and distinguished.
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Persona de Persona, non Deus de Deo.