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A43607	Syntagma theologicum, or, A treatise wherein is concisely comprehended, the body of divinity, and the fundamentals of religion orderly discussed whereunto are added certain divine discourses, wherein are handled these following heads, viz. 1. The express character of Christ our redeemer, 2. Gloria in altissimis, or the angelical anthem, 3. The necessity of Christ's passion and resurrection, 4. The blessed ambassador, or, The best sent into the basest, 5. S. Paul's apology, 6. Holy fear, the fence of the soul, 7. Ordini quisque suo, or, The excellent order, 8. The royal remembrancer, or, Promises put in suit, 9. The watchman's watch-word, 10. Scala Jacobi, or, S. James his ladder, 11. Decus sanctorum, or, The saints dignity, 12. Warrantable separation, without breach of union / by Henry Hibbert ...	Hibbert, Henry, 1601 or 2-1678.; Hibbert, Henry, 1601 or 2-1678. Exercitationes theologiae.	1662 (1662)	Wing H1793; ESTC R2845	709,920	522

12.1 Remember thy Creators Isa 42.5 Thus saith God the Lord he that created the Heavens and they that stretched them out The Psalmist Ps 33.6 By the Word of the Lord were the Heavens made and all the Host of them by the breath of his mouth That is God the Father by the Son through the Holy Ghost created all Psal 67.6 7. Some observe God is thrice named here to note the Trinity of persons When Moses beginneth to rehearse the Law and to explain it the first thing that he teacheth them is the Trinity in Unity and Unity in Trinity Deutr. 6.4 Hear O Israel the Lord our God the Lord is One Three words answering the three Persons Galatinus and the middle word Our God deciphering fitly the second who assumed our nature Jarchi as is well observ'd by Galatinus R. Solomon Jarchi writing on that Cant. 1.11 We will make c. interprets it I and my Judgment-hall Now a Judgement-hall in Israel consisted of three at least which in their close manner of speech they applied to God John 8.56 Your Father Abraham rejoyced to see my day and he saw it Austin and was glad Abraham in these words acknowledgeth the Mystery of the Trinity saith Austin Add unto these Cottons 7. Vial. p. 5. what Mr. Cotton hath out of Brightman on Rev. 4.3 God is here resembled saith he by three precious stones holding forth the three Persons in Trinity A Jasper having as they say a white Circle round about it representing the Eternity of the Father A Sardine stone of a fleshly colour representing Jesus Christ who took our flesh upon him An Emrald being of a green colour refreshing the eyes of them that look upon it representing the Spirit who is as the Rainbow a token of fair weather and is a comfortable refresher wheresoever he cometh There was Concilium augustissimum as one terms it a most Majestical meeting of the three Persons in Trinity about the work of mans Creation Gen. 1.26 And afterwards about his Redemption Mat. 3.16 17. So likewise in the matter of mans Sanctification remarkable is that of the Apostle 1 Cor. 12.4 5 6 7. where the diversities of gifts are said to be of the Spirit The diversities of Ministeries whereby those gifts are administred of the Lord that is of Christ And the diversities of operations effected by the gifts and Ministeries to be of God that is the Father When Jesus was baptized prayed the Heavens were opened and the Aire clarified by a new and glorious light and the Holy Ghost in the manner of a Dove alighted upon his Sacred Head and God the Father gave a voice from Heaven Thou art my beloved Son in whom I am well-pleased This was the greatest meeting that ever was upon Earth where the whole Cabinet of the mysterious Trinity was opened and shewn as much as the capacities of our present imperfections will permit The second Person in the vail of Humanity the third in the shape or with the motion of a Dove But the first kept his primitive state and as to the Israelites He gave notice by way of Caution Ye saw no shape but ye heard a voyce So now also God the Father gave testimony to his holy Son and appeared only in a voyce without any visible representment Also in the transfiguration of Christ the Son standeth the Father by his voyce witnesseth and the Holy Ghost overshadows him in a Cloud as before by a Dove Now the pur-blind Progeny of Adam being able to discern no clearer of the Godhead than he in the Gospel which saw men walking like Trees O blindness more than gross not to see or seeing not to discern when the Sun it self lodgeth in his Zenith Therefore many have ransack't Nature for Mediums to perswade the Doctrine of the Trinity One tells us That a Spring begets a River and that from both are derived smaller Brooks all which make but one water Another shews a Root from which riseth a Body and from thence Branches yet all but one Tree Another Dyonis de divin nomin 5.2 the Trinity may be shadow'd forth though but darkly by light the Father being as the body of light the Son as the beams and the Holy Ghost as the splendour of both Dionysius illustrateth it by the similitude of three Candles Dam●s●● de fid l. 1. c. 4. enlightning one and the same Room And Damascen of the Parelii when there appear as it were three and yet it is but one Sun And thus as difficult as the thing is Divines both Ancient and Modern Vid. Zanch. de tribus Elohim l. 8 c. 6. have in their Writings brought many similitudes and resemblances to express it by Amongst them all this is one of the clearest viz. The light of the Sun the light of the Moon and the light of the Aire all which are for nature and substance one and the same light and yet are they notwithstanding three distinct lights too Mr. Perkins on the Creed for the light of the Sun is of it self and from no other the light of the Moon is from the Sun and the light of the Aire is from them both So the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost are all one simple and undivided Godhead but yet three distinct Persons the Father having the foundation of Personal subsistence from himself and from no other the Son from the Father of whom he is eternally begotten and the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son from both which he eternally proceedeth And God said let us make man in our Image after our likeness Holy Holy Holy Gen. 1.26 Isa 6.3 is the Lord of Hosts Jesus went up straight way out of the water the Spirit of God descending like a Dove lighted upon him And lo a voyce from Heaven Mat. 3.16 17. saying This is my Beloved Son in Whom I am well pleased Jesus was transfigured Matth. 17.2 5. a bright Cloud overshadowed them and behold a voyce out of the Cloud c. Go Matth. 28.19 and teach all Nations baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost For he received from God the Father honour and glory 2 Pet. 1.17 when there came such a voyce to him from the excellent glory 1 John 5.7 There are three that bear Record in Heaven the Father the word and the Holy Ghost and these three are one De Christo THE second person in the glorious Trinity is God the Son Jesus Christ The Name Jesus signifieth a Saviour so he was called before at Nomen Jesu salutis ben ficium quod ab illo expectandum denotat and after his birth A Saviour considering his Potency able to save considering his Habit proclaimed by the Angel at his Conception he shall save or regard his Act hence call'd Jesus at his Circumsion Or look into his Passion where he was Victus Victor unloosing others himself being

in every one that is called God And forasmuch as the Essence and the Persons are inseparable whatsoever is properly called God is a Person What Motion what Quality what Inspiration can be called God He is a Person because we are baptized in his Name He is the Author of this institution He is the Director of the whole act by his authority by his command by his power the water is sanctified the baptized are renewed the whole work is happily accomplished For all is done in the Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost not in the name of a Motion of a Quality of an Inspiration He is a Person because the properties of a Person are attributed to him Luk. 11.12 Joh. 16. Joh. 14.1 Cor. 12.11 Act. 13.2.1 Joh. 5.7 Rom. 8. He is sud to teach us heavenly knowledge to lead us into all truth to comfort the afflicted members of Jesus Christ to distribute gifts and graces according to his good pleasure to call and send Apostles to bear witness in heaven with the Father and the Son to bear witness with our spirits that we are the sons of God to cry in our hearts Abba Father to make intercessions for us with groanings that cannot be uttered These are not effects proper to a Motion or a Quality or an Inspiration Lastly He is distinguished most manifestly from the Gifts of God Dona honoraria There are diversity of gifts but the same Spirit the same Spirit distributing these gifts so divers where it will Thus it is apparent that the Spirit of the Son is a Person And as he is a Person so is he 2. A distinct Person from the Father and the Son Non aliud sed alius Not essentially differing noted by the first word but hypostatically noted by the last And as he is a Person so is he 2. A distinct Person from the Father and the Son Non aliud sed alius Not essentially differing noted by the first word but hypostatically noted by the last And that because he is the Spirit of the Father and the Son He cannot be said to be his own Spirit as the Father cannot be said to be his own Father or the Son his own Son that is as absurd as this Again because he is said to be another from them both I will ask the Futher Joh. 14.16 and he shall send you another Comforter Christ whilst he was on earth was a Comfort unto his Disciples wherefore lest diffidence and despair by reason of the great persecutions they should suffer after his departure should break their hearts and sorrow ruine them he prays the Father to send them another Comforter and promiseth he will see it done for their assurance cap. 15.26 He will send him from the Father Furthermore He hath a relative property and characteristical note several from theirs putting a difference betwixt them and him He onely proceeds from the Father and the Son He onely appeared under the form of an innocent Dove and of fiery cloven tongues By his immediate operation Christ was conceived in the womb of the Virgin and by his immediate operation Gods children are throughly sanctified and furnished unto every good work Last of all The Father sends him that so sends him whence he is neither the Father nor the Son but one from them It is a marvellous impropriety of speech that a man should be said to send himself but proper it is to say he comes of his own accord Forasmuch therefore as the Spirit is said to be sent from the Father and the Son and as here God sent forth the Spirit of his Son He is a Person distinct from them both Which is the thing I intended to demonstrate As he is a Person so is he the third and last Person not last in time nor last in nature nor last in dignity but last in the order and manner of subsisting and of performing such works as are common to them all called works ab extra as Creation Redemption Preservation Justification Sanctification c. Having briefly gone over these two points I shall endeavour by Gods grace to do the like in the next which is this 3. That there are Three Persons in the Deity to whom the Divine Essence is communicated The Father the Son the Spirit For humane Reason fully to conceive so high a mystery is impossible What therefore we must learn hereof the Scripture teacheth Faith receives and Reason must not contradict Rather imbrace those depths of knowledge with admiration than by an over-curious inquisition to dive into it and return unsatisfied and sore troubled Yet because Ignorance needs information and Curiosity requires confirmation I will say somewhat though little of it The Platonists acknowledge in God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Mind or Understanding a Word a Spirit By Understanding they understand the Father by the Word the Son who by S. Joh. 1.1 is expresly called the Word by Spirit the Third Person proceeding from the Father and the Son called The Love of God Hence Divines conceive the matter thus The Father is quasi Deus intelligens God understanding The Son who is the express Image of the Father is quasi Dens intellectus God understood call●d the Wisdom of the Father the Image of the Father the Word of God as a word is but the image of the understanding The Spirit breathed and proceeding from the Father and the Son is quasi Deus dilectus God is Love saith S. Lombard John hence by Lombard said to be that Love wherewith the Father loves the Son the Son the Father So the Text reckons up three the Father the Son the Spirit God sent forth the Spirit of his Son This is indeed a deep mystery Yet as abstruse as this Divine mystery of the Trinity is Nature can give us some insight by similitudes though imperfect of the possibility and truth of it We see that in the Sun there is an indesinent fountain of light a brightness and splendor springing out of it and a quickning and reviving heat proceeding from it yet none will be so foully mistaken as to conclude out of these three that there are three Suns there being still but one So though the Essence of the Godhead be but one yet we must know it is communicated unto three Persons and though communicated unto three Persons yet still the Essence is but one We see that in Man there are two diverse and far different natures a Body and a Soul yet these two make not two Men but one these reteining the unity of one Person If two diverse Natures met together make one Person why may not one Nature and Essence be communicated to Three and those Three having one and the same Essence still remain one God We see that in the Soul of Man there is a Will which is the immediate beginning ab intra of every act proceeding from our selves commanding this or that to be done sic volo