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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50429	The snare broken, or, The natural and eternal deity of the Son of God, as also of the Holy Ghost, asserted by a person, who having been formerly a a [sic] Socinian, and then an Arrian, came at length, by a free consideration of the Scriptures, to be fully convinc'd of the truth of the Catholick faith concerning the blessed Trinity.	Mayne, Zachary, 1631-1694.	1692 (1692)	Wing M1488; ESTC R19321	12,820	17

But as it is written Eye hath not seen nor Ear heard neither have enter'd into the Heart of Man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him Well how came they to know this Recluse hidden Mysterious Wisdome which the very Chief of the World Princes and Philosophers did not know neither had enter'd into the Heart of Man to conceive Why Ver. 10. But God hath Revealed them to us by his Spirit Why how did the Spirit know Why the Spirit searcheth all things even the Deep things of God There are none of the Secrets of Eternity but the Spirit knows them intimately How so The Apostle hath not done with it yet but instanceth further and proves by a notable similitude Ver. 11. that the Spirit must needs know all that God knows and therefore I think must needs be God the words are these For what Man knoweth the things of a Man save the Spirit of a Man that is in him Even so the things of God knoweth no Man It is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and it is poorly translated No Man it ought to have been translated as I humbly conceive No one neither Man not Spirit nor any Creature No one but the Spirit of God And if the Spirit of a Man be not Essentially One with a Man what is there One with him And now being but a Similitude it cannot be pressed to a Sameness as Nullum simile est idem Yet I must humbly conceive the simile could not have been made without Blasphemy had not the Spirit been of the Divine Essence For what Proportion can there be betwixt Infinite and Finite so that the Spirit or Holy Ghost should be to God as the Spirit of a Man is to him to know all his secrets to search into them and from his perfect intimate knowledge of all the secrets of God to be able to communicate them to us The Spirit is so one with the Father and the Son as that there is no Mystery hidden or that can be hidden from him Therefore he is God with the Father and the Son and as here it is spoken perhaps chiefly of his Intimacy with the Father who ordinarily sustains the name of God So in Joh. 16.15 16 17. is mention made of his Intimacy with the Son He shall take of mine and shall shew it unto you So here you see is the Counsel of the Trinity No wonder therefore where there is so great an Intimacy and Oneness if they often appear together the Father in a Voice and the Spirit in a Dove upon the Son no wonder if these be the Three that are said to bear Record in Heaven If Baptism be ordained to be celebrated in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost and to give the last sweet and blessed Farewel to my proofs if the Apople conclude his Epistle to the Corinthians 2 Cor. 13.14 with this Valediction The Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the Love of God the Father and the Communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all Amen I have now only this to add touching the Doctrine of the Trinity That tho' I believe this Essential Unity which I have mention'd and I hope prov'd yet that I suppose there is a great Respect to behad to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or difference of these Persons in the Trinity For as I humbly conceive they that are of the Orthodox Opinion as touching the Unity of the Three Persons in the Godhead are in great danger of Non-attendance to this Real Difference that there is between the several Persons and are ready to swallow up all the Difference and Distinction or Distinctness in the Unity and to think the Difference to lye only in a various and different Manifestation of the Being of God Whereas there are so plain different Attributes or Attributions of the Three Persons as if they were Three distinct Beings The Father is manifestly the Fons Trinitatis the Fountain of the Trinity The Son is united to our Nature so as the Father is not and the Spirit is not The Son died in our Nature so did not the Father nor the Spirit The Son was sent by the Father so was not the Father by either the Son or the Holy Ghost The Holy Ghost was sent by the Father in the Name of the Son Joh. 14.26 and sent by the Son himself Joh. 16.7 The Father is the Person on whom our Faith and Hope do ultimately terminate 1 Pet. 1.21 So it doth not on the Son or Holy Ghost The Father in the Work of Redemption sustains the Person of the Parties offended and yet giving his Son in order to the Reconciling the World to himself the Son the Person of Mediator the Spirit applies all that is done by the Father and the Son in Conviction Conversion Quickning Comforting Sealing and Intercession within us Rom. 8.26 27. I could instance in many more Particulars which ought to have a serious consideration especially the great Business of Intercession now in Heaven where the Son Ministers as a Kingly Priest at his Father's Right hand in the true Tabernacle which God hath pitched and not Man Is there not a great distinction here made betwixt the Father and the Son in sustaining two different Persons And what is consequent upon this Observation of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 methinks it should seem highly Rational to every Christian every one that owns the Mystery of the Trinity That as there are Three distinct Persons that All justly claim the Name and Title of God as they have the Essence so that they should All that is Each have their distinct Honour from him according to the several Discoveries that are made of them of their several distinct Habitudes and Relations to us and that it should not seem so absurd a Notion as I find it doth to some that we may have a distinct Communion with the Three Persons of the Trinity For if it be nothing else but to endeavour to Abear our selves with distinct Honourable Thoughts and Apprehensions towards them according to the several Attributions or Parts Assign'd to them and most really Assum'd by them for our Good and to do this with the greatest Reverence and Joy that we can conceive in our Minds what is this less than to have Communion with the Three Persons distinctly yet not exclusively to love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity to believe in him Ye believe in God that is in the Father believe also in me and by him we are to believe in God that is the Father that by him our Faith and Hope may be in God 1 Pet. 1.21 The words at large are these Who by him do believe in God that rais'd him up from the dead and gave him Glory that your Faith and Hope might be in God And as this is proper to be endeavour'd and done by us as one Part of Communion to wit that on our Part so we find Two of the Divine Persons promised to come to us together in case we do the Will of God Joh. 14.21 23. Jesus answer'd and said unto him If a man love me he will keep my words and my Father will love him and we will come to him and make our abode with him And do you think the Communion of the Holy Ghost shall be deny'd to that Person where the Father and the Son come and dwell And is not here Communion with the Three Persons and yet I desire all this may be understood modestly and humbly And indeed however it fare with the Notion of these things the Things themselves shall never be understood and experienc'd but by those that are Humble indeed Z.M. A.M. FINIS