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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	ghost_n	holy_a	trinity_n	3,214	5	9.7060	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44458	Blessed rest for the burthened sinner. Or the only center of the soul Wherein is discovered. 1. Who he is that invites and calls sinners to this rest. 2. The encouragements to come unto him for rest. 3. Many obstructions and impediments which keep back sinners. With their unreasonableness answered. 4. The rest that every one shall have that comes unto Christ. Delivered in some sermons at first, yet since some addition and enlargement has been made to them. By John Hopwood preacher of the Gospel.	Hopwood, John, preacher of the Gospel.	1676 (1676)	Wing H2761A; ESTC R216474	156,207	450

3 From their distinct personal Propertys Mat. 28.19 1 Joh. 5.7 1 From their distinct Names they are called Father Son and Holy Ghost so Father Word and Holy Ghost These names do manifest a distinction not of Nature and Essence for they are one therefore of Personality 2 From the Distinct personal acts ascribed to the three Persons as 1 The giving of the Spirit is ascribed to the Father Joh. 14.16 I will pray the Father and he shall give you another Comforter the act of giving is proper to a Person that hath understanding and will 2 Sending the Comforter is ascribed to the Son Jo. 15.26 And it is proper to Christ to send his holy Spirit to his Servants 3 Guiding into all truth is ascribed to the Holy Ghost Jo. 16.13 their Personal Acts as Giving Sending and Guiding prove the distinction and trinity of persons yet there can be but one single and 〈◊〉 essence which proves the unity 3 that they are three distinct persons is evident from their distinct Personal and incommunicable propertys as 1 The personal Property of the Father is to beget the Son Heb. 1.5 2 The personal Property of the Son is to be Begotten Joh. 1.14 We beheld his glory the glory as of the only begotten of the Father 3 The personal property of the Holy Ghost is to proceed from the Father and the Son Jo. 15.26 And when the Comforter is come whom I will send from the Father even the Spirit of truth which proceedeth from the Father he shall testifie of me I need not say more to prove the Blessed Trinity or that the Lord Jesus is the second Person of those that require further satisfaction in this point let them consult the famous Duplesses in his treatise de vera Religione I could say much more to prove this Point that the Lord Jesus is a Divine Person and that he is the Second in order although not in Nature in the blessed trinity but having proved the trinity from the word of God I suppose the other Granted viz. That the Lord Jesus is God 8. Argument Shall be taken from the greatness of the sufferings that the Lord Jesus indured and satisfaction he made to his Fathers justice the sufferings of Christ were infinite in regard they were the sufferings of an infinite Person Act. 20.28 The Church of God which he hath purchased with his Blood Est aliquid in Christo quod non est passum Vrsin spoken Senechdochally because of the communication of properties the communication of properties is to attribute to the whole Person that which is the property of one of the Natures the Deity of the Lord Jesus is impassible and altogether incapable of depression suffering or affliction it was his humane Nature suffered and died it was Christ who is God-man that did bear our sorrows 1 Tim. 2.5 He is called man and in 1 Jo. 3.16 He is called God Hereby perceive we the Love of God because he laid down his Life for us continebat paenas maximas quia miseriam illam totam aequabat hominum peccata merebantur Ames Med. Theo. he what he even he that was God-man in one person and two distinct natures By the one he underwent Death and by the other viz. his divine he overcame and triumphed over Death and the Grave if he had not been an Almighty Person he would have been pressed down under that load of guilt and punishment for he sustained the greatest punishment in that it did equal all the misery which our Sins merited and we to eternity ought to have suffered 2 The satisfaction he made was infinite Bellarmin de Justificil 2. Cap. 7. Ser. 4. confesseth that nothing can make satisfaction for sin which is an infinite wrong to God but that only which is Infinite in value so was the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the price that Christ paid Ca. 22. i.e. quod nos in aeternum debuissimus pati Vrsin it was of infinite Value for it gave satisfaction to infinite justice offended by the Sinner he could never have made peace except he had broken down the middle Wall of Partition between God the party offended and poor Sinners the partys offending and this he did by that Price he paid viz. His blood 1 Pet. 1.19 And having paid the uttermost Farthing he came out of the Prison of the Grave Id circo illis tertio diae vita resumpta denuo apparuit Joseph lib. 14. Antiq. Cap. 4. and appeared to his Disciples as both Scripture and History relate the third day he reassumed life and appeared to his Disciples if Christ had not done and suffered that which was equivolent to the demands of divine justice and made full satisfaction for every Sin of his elect ones we might then question whether his satisfaction was of infinite value but he has done so and made compleat satisfaction therefore it is said The Blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin 1 Joh. 1.7 Joh. 1.29 Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the Sins of the World Now this could not be if he had not compleatly satisfied every demand of justice and paid an infinite Price for our Sins Peccati gravitas irae Dei immensum intolerabile pondus mortis imperium tirannis Diaboli quae tollere vincere abolere placare nemo potuit nisi Deus Bucanum So that the Sufferings being Infinite and the Satisfaction infinite it must needs be of an Infinite Person which is Christ the second Person of the Blessed Trinity and so his suffering and satisfaction becomes Meritorious now there are three things required in a Person that merits 1 He must be a free voluntary Agent no way obligated to the performance of that act done by him but of this sort there are neither Angels nor Men for they are all obligated and injoyned to do their uttermost for the glory of God 2 What they merit with must be of their own but as the Apostle saith What have we or Angels that we have not received 1 Cor. 4.7 Mensura debet esse unigenira similis mensurato 3 The work must be equivalent to the reward But these qualifications are found in none but in Christ and the work he did he was a free voluntary Agent no way oblieged till he bound himself and became our surety as he himself saith Joh. 10.17 18. Therefore doth the Father love me because I lay down my Life none 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 takes it from me but I lay it down of my self I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it up again So the work was perfected by his own Divine Power as being Almighty and it was of equal value to the reward even grace pardon life and glory for ever then we conclude that Christ Jesus the Inviter is God blessed for ever Rom. 9.5 9. Argument From Christs Testimony of or concerning himself and we shall find this is no slight Argument