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FOr we like and approve of that most true saying of the Fathers a∣gainst the Eu••ychians, and Monothe∣lites (to witt) That they which have the same essentiall Properties, have also the
same Natures and essences: and they which have their Naturall Properties confounded, have also their Natures con∣founded. Which as it is true in all, so in God especially, in whom his Es∣sentiall Properties are nothing else really, but his very Essence: From whence it followes upon necessitie, that, if they can truely and properly be communicated unto any created substance, so that it can become as God is, as for example, Simply Omnipotent; then also Gods very Es∣sence may be communicated unto it: so that, if it can become equall unto God for Power or any other Propertie, then may it also become equall unto God for Essence, and so Co-essentiall with God. Which to say, were to commit two grand errours: One, in making the creature equall to God, by attributing and communi∣cating unto it those things which truely and properly belong onely un∣to God. Neither doth the exception help, in saying, That God hath them from himself, but the humane nature in Christ hath them from the Godhead: For even the Son himsef, is not from
himself, neither hath he his divine essence from himself, but from the Father; and yet he is equall to the Father and hath the same nature with the Father. The other errour is committed, in attributing divine, and so infinite properties, as infinite power, unto the humane nature; and so taking from it the finite properties thereof: Even as the great light of the Sun taketh away the light of a candle; or as the glory which shall be communicated unto our bodyes at the resurrection, shall take from them all their dishonour and cor∣ruption. For where an infinite power is an Agent, and worketh; there a finite power is idle and none at all. But this Heresie hath been so fully and perspicuously refuted by many learned men in our age, that for our parts being here to set forth a brief and simple confession of our faith un∣to the Church of God, and all poste∣ritie; we will not adde any thing more to that which hath been said.