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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37390	A Declaration of the principall pointes of Christian doctrine gathered out of diuerse catechismes and set forth by the English priests dwelling in Tournay Colledge.		1647 (1647)	Wing D742; ESTC R17718	151,131	593

How can this be It is a thing which we cannot comprehend for as God himselfe is incomprehensible to vs so is all that which is in God and particularly this mysterie of the most blessed Trinity 3. Is there no example to helpe vs to conceiue this mysterie Yes it may in some sort be exemplified in a fountaine which produceth a riuer and the riuer and it together a lake for the lake the riuer and the fountaine are distinguished from one another and yet the water by which they are all constituted is one and the same in euery one of them 4. What then meaneth the mysterie of the vnity and Trinity of God It meaneth that in God there is only one diuinity or as we say essence and diuine nature which neuerthelesse is in three diuine persons who are called Father Sonne and holy Ghost and so there is but one God and euery Person is truly that one God 5. Wherefore are the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost three distinct persons Because they haue three distinct notions for though the being of the Godhead be most single and indiuisible and consequently the selfe same in all three yet the manner of this being is not the same but each one hath his speciall manner of being which cannot be common to the rest For the Father is the fountaine from-whence the other two persons do proceed and he hath no source himselfe to proceed from and therefore he produceth but is not produced The Sonne proceedeth from the father and only from him The holy Ghost proceedeth both frō the Father and the Sonne And hence it ariseth that the three persons are distinguished though not diuided one from another and therefore though we cannot say that the Godhead of the Sonne proceedeth from the Godhead of the Father or the Godhead of the holy Ghost from the Godhead of the Father and the sonne yet we are bound to belieue that the person of the sonne proceedeth from the person of the Father and the person of the holy Ghost from the persons of the Father and the sonne 6. How doth the sonne proceed from the father He is not made nor created but begotten of his fathers owne substance by his vnderstanding For the father knowing himselfe by an infinite knowledge produceth by his vnderstanding a most perfect word or expression of himselfe which is his sonne coeternall and equall in all thinges to himselfe and must needs possesse the same nature with him because he is produced of his owne substance 7. Why is he called his sonne Because his production is a true generation For as the end of generation in creatures is to make a thing like in nature to that from which it proceeds so doth the word of the diuine vnderstāding produced through the force of the fathers intellectuall nature by the manner of its production naturally expresse the thing which is vnderstood which is God the father himselfe 8. Hath God the father but one sonne begotten of his owne substāce No nether can he haue any more then one for it is otherwise in God then in men because no man can giue all that he himselfe is to any sonne and therefore he may haue many children but God allmigthy doth giue his owne substance so perfectly to his sonne by generation as that he giueth him all that is in himselfe and can be communicated in so much that there remaineth nothing to be giuen by way of generation to any other 9. How doth the holy Ghost proceed from the father and the sonne He doth proceed from them both as frō one only source and not as made or created nor as begotten but produced through the will by an ineffable way which diuines rearme Spiration 10. What is Spiration It is a breathing or impulse of the will by which it expresseth its affection for the father louing his sonne infinitely as being his only begotten and the sonne his father as the fountaine from whom he proceedeth they produce a mutuall bond of loue whereby the father and sonne are ineffably linked together and this is the holy Ghost the third person of the blessed Trinity eternall God and equall to both the other two persons 11. Why are these three persons one only God Because they haue one selfe same essence one selfe same power one selfe same wisedome one selfe same goodnesse one selfe same vnderstanding and one selfe same will 12. Did then all these three diuine persons create the world Yes for all three hauing from all eternity the same power the same will and the same vnderstanding whatsoeuer is done out of God by one is done by all LESSON III. Of the creation of the world 1. OF what did God make the world Of nothing 2. With what did he make it With his word alone 3. Had not he then need of some instruments to make it with all No for his power is so great and so infinite as that he can not only make what he will but allso in what manner he will 4. Was there an infinite power required to create the world Yes for the harder a thing is to be done the more force is required to the doeing of it and the more remote a thing as from the end to which it is to be moued the more force is required to moue it thither and therefore seeing that to create is to make a thing of nothing and that betwixt nothing and something there is an infinite distance it followeth that creation requireth an infinite force or power in him who createth 5. Why did he make the world That his greatnesse and goodnesse might be seene and adored 6. By whom would he haue it adored By men and Angells who only are able to consider the admirable workes of heauen and earth and by knowing them to loue and praise his goodnesse who made them for their vse and benefit 7. What moued God to create men and Angells did he want them or did he get any thing by them He did not want them for seeing he is all goodnesse he could want no good thing and for euill it is not to be desired nether could he get any thing by them for he who hath all getteth nothing So that he was moued merely through his owne goodnesse for being all goodnesse himselfe he needed no other cause why to do good then that himselfe by nature is goodnesse for as it is the nature of heate to make hot and of cold to coole so is it the nature of goodnesse to do good 8. What is an Angell An Angell is a spirituall creature subsisting completely by himselfe without a body 9. What became of the Angells whom God created Some of them remained in that holy estate wherein they were created and so were by God his grace established therein and became happy and blessed for euer Others kept it not but wilfully lost it by sinne and so became Diuells and are condemned to euerlasting torment in hell 10. How many Angells were there created The multitude of