ther because he is true and juft,gives all this glory to the Holy Choft, it concerns us to glorifie him.

If there were not all this and a great deal more to be faid for the honour of the Holy Ghoft, yet it were an invincible argument to me if I could only say that the Holy Ghost is God, and therefore to be worshipped as God with Divine worship; The Holy Ghost is one with the Father and the Son, one God, and therefore all three are to be worShipped with the fame Divine Worship. It were enough for fuch men as have not fo much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost, or no, Acts 19 2. to talk as the filthy dreamers and blafphemous Hereticks of this rotten age ufually doe, who belch out the language of Hell against the Spirit of Grace; and I cannot but wonder that fubtile Iefuites, Arminians and Socinians who pretend to study and fearch the criptures, fhould fay that there is nothing to be found in Scripture concerning the worshipping of the Holy Ghoft.

That the Spirit acts according to the Counsell of his Divine will,hath been fufficiently proved; only it must be confidered that as Father, Son and Spirit have but one Nature,fo they have but one Will.

Concerning the Peculiar and Perfonall properties of the Holy Ghoft, Ifhall treat when I come to speak of the diftinction of thefe fubfiftences. For

Deus

For conclufion of this chapter I am to prove that the Godhead doth fubfift in Father, Son, and Spirit,all three without any multiplication of the Godhead.

The Father and the Son are but one God, The uni John 10.30. I and my Father are one. The ty of the Father, Son and Spirit,all three are but one Godhead. God.1 John 5.7. There is but one God.Ephef. unus, trin- 4. 6. Deut. 6, 4. Ifa. 44. 6. 8. Ifa. 45.21. uus, fo 22, Nay there can be but one God; there lus,uni- can be but one moft Perfect being, one incus, fim finite Perfection the most perfect being is the pliciffime unús, uni- most fingle being, and therefore Father, Son, and Holy Groft are all three but one onely God; they are Consubstantiall, CoeThe Father quall, Coeternall, they have one Nature, Son and Minde Will, Power, Godhead: Some of the Holy Spirit allthree are Ancients who meant well, faid there were but on one. three Substances,but they meant three Subly God. fiftences or Perions, as Hilary expounds 1 John 5.7 them;for,faith he, They did not intend to afJohn 10. 30 Unita Sert three different effences.

ciffime unicus.

tem cffen

Hence it is, that fuch as were more wary tia conta in their expreffions, did use the word SubAvianos, fiftence, and faid that there were three fubtem perfo. fiftences, but one fubftance or effence in this narum divine Trinunity. This is the first of all the contra Sa- Commandements, to acknowledge one

Trinita

bellianos

tuemur. Tres fubftantias effe dixerunt, Subfiftentium perfonas per Subftantias edocentes, non Subftantiam Patris et Filijet Spiritus Sancti diverfitate diffimilis effentiæ feparantes ex concil. Antiochen. Hilar.de Synodo adverfus Arianos.

only

We do

acknow

ledge a

Trinam de.

only God, Mark 12.29. As there is but one Mediatour to intercede, fo there is but not only one God to justifie, and intercede unto for juftification. 1 Tim.2.5 Rom 3 30. Gal.3.20. Trinity, It is one and the fame God who com but a Trin. mands heaven and earth, Deut. 4.35 39. unity in Ifa.37.16. The gods of the heathens were to the cr oppofition falfe gods, dunghill-gods, or devill-gods: rour of the Magiftrates are but mortall gods; they Tritheites. muft die, and rife to judgment, and hold num & up their hand at the tribunal of Jehovah, monftrant Pfal.86.8,9 10. Pfal, 82 6,7. 1 Cor. 8. 6. trinunum I prove this point at large, because I per- Deum fimceive by Mr. Fry his fad account, we are pliciffimè much misconstrued in this weighty point, unicum. as if by acknowledging three distinct fub- Hiires funt fiftences, we did create two new Gods, unus ille and affirmed elus Chrift and the Holy Deus, trinGhost to be two diftinct Gods both from urus Deus, the Father and from one another. But we Infinitum, are no Tritheites: We acknowledge a fummé & Trinunity,as well as a Trinity in oppofition abfolutè to the errour of the Tritheites; we believe perfectum, the Unity of the Godhead; and I never non poteft read of the Trinity of the Godhead in Eng num. Si cffe nifi ulifh, untill I read it in the Title of Mr.*Fry unus poteft his Opinion, which he delivered to the omnia,quid Houfe,and hath fince printed and published opus et plu to the world.

1 ch.5.7.

boc eft,

ribus diis?

omnia au

sem poteft Deus trinunus Deus cft trinunus, eft unus abfolute, trinus relate; unus quoad effentiam, trinus quoad fubfifientiam. * See Mr,Fry his Anfwer to the Charge of Blafphemy and Errour &c.p.20,22.

We

d Deus ita

ut etiam

fit folus,&

ram infini

e Deus

non tam

d We do believe that God is one, moft eft unus, fingly and fingularly one, and an only one : The unity of the Godhead is not a gene ita folus ut rical, or a specifical unity, but a most singunon poffit lar unity,which I need not call a numerical effe alius. unity,as fome do; I had rather call it the En natu- moft fingle fingular and perfect unity, as tam fum- fome profound Divines do, who have told mè unam, me what I have read in others that I had & uniciffi- need be very curious in the delivery of this mè unica. weighty point. All the three Perfons have one and the fame fingle and infinite Godunus nu head, and therefore muft needs mutually mero di fubfift in one another, because they are all cendus eft, three one and the fame infinite God. Three quàmuni confubftantial, coeffential, coeternal, coequal Pater & Perfons, are diftinguished, but not divided, filius funt are united, but not confounded; united in unum po their S one nature, not confounded in their tius, quam diftin& fubfiftences; nay though their fubfiftence is in one another, yet their fubSunt in fiftences are distinct, but their nature moft quies u- h fingularly the fame; nay the divine nature nus Deus, is as i fingular as any one of the single fubfiimò potius funt idem fences, and yet whatever is proper to the uniculque Divine nature is kcommon to all three of Deus. thefe Divine subfiftences; and the Divine f Perfonæ nature doth not fubfift out of these three coellenti- Divine fubfiftences.

cus.

unus. Iob.

10.30.

iales & in

se mutuò fubfiftentes inconfusè uniuntur, & indivisè discernuntur. g ὁμούσιος καὶ ασύγχυτος καὶ αδιαίρετος τρίας.

b Natura divina eft fingulariffima, & fimpliciffimè unica.

i Non minus individuum eft effentia divina quàm perfona. D.Alting.Problem.

Natura divina eft fimpliciffime fingularis,& tamen communis Patri,Filio & Spiritui Sancto. Nec mirum,cùm fit fimpliciffimè & perfe&tiffimè infinita.

But the more we deliver concerning the unity of the Godhead, the more advantage do the Socinians hope to gain for the juftifying of their blafphemous dreams: for if this unity of the Godhead be not only notionall but reall, and God is most singly and fingularly one,and an onely one,as hath been proved; why then say they, We will be bold to urge an invincible argument to prove that God the Father alone is God, and therefore neither Jefus Chrift nor the Holy Ghoft is truly and properly God by nature. God the Father alone is the onely true God; but neither the Son nor the Holy Ghoft is God the Father. Ergo, neither the Son nor the Holy Ghaft is the only true God. For the proof of this Propofition, That the Father alone is the only true God, they cite some of those places which I have alleadged 1 Cor.8. to prove the unity of the Godhead; but 5,6. they lay most weight upon Iohn 17. 3. 1 Tim. 2.5 Behold, fay they, a plain acknowledgment Eph.4 6. from the mouth of Jefus Chrift: Chrift Joh.17-13

/Chriftus ipfe dicit patrem fuum effe illum unum folum vcrum Deum etiam refpectu fui. Seipfum namque ibidem nominat atque à Patre diftinguit. Socinus in tract. de Dco, Chrifto,& Spiritu Santo. Catecbif.Racovienf.cap.1. p.37. Socin. Libro quod Evangelici &c,

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