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A75804	Scripture manifestation of the equalitty of the Father, Sonne, and Holy-Ghost. VVherein is above an hundred particulars by parralell places of Scripture, this truth is clearely confirmed; namely that the Scriptures manifest the Sonne, and Holy Ghost to be God equall with the Father, by ascribing to them such names, attributes, works, and worship, as are proper to God alone. / By Beniamin Austin, pastor of the Church of God at Castle-Ashbey in Northamptonshire.	Austin, Benjamin.	1650 (1650)	Wing A4242; Thomason E1218_1; ESTC R210122	135,284	243

hath granted to it Secondly the thing is in the Scriptures if not the word and it is a vanity to dote about questions and strife of words when as we agree in the thing The word being but the shadow and the thing the sustance and therefore the word necessarily followeth the thing as the shadow the body And surely did not men dislike the truth they would never quarrell with the words that expresse it Thirdly the words were used in the Church long before the Councell of Nice as ye may see in the writings of Ireneus Justin Martyr Clemens Alexand. Syprian Origen Tertul. Lactant. and others yea and the same of these words are used by the enemies of this truth Fourthly the words Essence Trinity Person Thuschija or Essence derived of Jascha fuit is used of God Isa 28.19 Job 12.16 Pro. 8.14 Secondly Essence is most properly ascribed to God who alone hath Essence of himself and all things have their essence from him Thirdly If the word Essence were not in the Scriptures yet the Adversaries cannot deny there is that which is equivolent to it As for example the Names of God both in the Old Testament Jehovah Jah Ehejeh all derived of the Hebrew Roote Havah or Hajah that signifieth to be and also the Names of God in the New Testament Rev. 1.4 8. Rev. 41 17. Rev. 16.5 He that was and is to come and I am Joh. 8. whose conjugate is Essence Fifthly the word Trinity though not found in the Scriptures yet the word three being used of God ● Joh. 5.7 it followeth from the equivolency of its conjugate even as the word Unity is not found in the Scriptures but the word One being used it followeth from the equivolency of its conjugate also Secondly If the word Three were not so used yet Christ and his Apostles and Prophets Name Three Mat. 28.19 2 Cor. 13.14 Mat. 3.16 17. Hag. 2.5 Psal 33.6 Rev. 1.4 5. 1 Cor. 12.4 5 6. Eph. 2.18 Eph. 2.22 1 Joh. 5.7 Isa 63.9.10 Joh. 14.16 Joh. 15.26 Gal. 4.6 2 Thes 3.5 c. First as touching the word Person which we use because we have no fitter The Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is applyed to the Father Heb. 1.3 as also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is ascribed to the Father Mat. 18.10 to the Sonne 2 Cor. 2.10 2 Cor. 4.6 the Holy-Ghost Psal 95.6 in the Greek David inviteth all to worship his Person whom he introduceth speaking which was the Holy-Ghost Heb. 3.7 which Greek words are translated by the word Person Secondly if that may be called a Person which hath personall Acts ascribed to it Surely then the word Person may be given to the Father to the Sonne and to the Holy-Ghost for we have all three speaking in the first spoken to in the second and spoken of in the third Person I might instance in many hundred places of Scripture I shall onely name a few First you have all three speaking in the first 1. The Father Ps 2.7 8. Heb. 1.5 2. The Son Mal. 3.1 Can. 2.1 Re. 21.1 3. The Holy-Ghost Ac. 10.1 Ac. 13.2 Secondly you have all three spoken to in the second 1. The Father Joh. 11.42 Joh. 17. 2. The Son Act. 13.35 Ps 2.7 Ps 110.4 3. The Holy-Ghost Can. 4. la. Act. 4.24 It was he that spake by the mouth of David Act. 1.16 Thirdly you have all three spoken in the third 1 Cor. 12.4 5 6. where to shew there is none greater nor lesser then other you have first the Spirit and from him are derived gifts vers 4 secondly the Son and from him are Administrations uers 5. thirdly the Father and from him your have Operations vers 6. you have in the like manner the Sonne mentioned in the first place before the Father 2 Cor. 13.14 2 Thes 2.16 Gal. 1.1 Eph. 5.5 Sometime the Sonne put in the last place after the Holy-Ghost Rev. 1.4 5. Though the usuall order of the Scriptures is Father Sonne and Holy-Ghost Mat. 28.19 1 John 5.7 1 Thes 3.11 12. If men were not blinded with sinne they might see this their great errour in fighting against the Lord Jesus and his Spirit The Lord open their eyes to see the glorious light of the truth and draw their hearts to imbrace it Now the Lord Jesus Christ and God even our Father who hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace comfort your hearts and establish you in every good worke and word 2 The. 2.16 17. That ye may grow in grace and the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ 2 Pet. 3.18 Looking for the mercy of the Lord Jesus to eternall life Jude 21. Which is the prayer of him who through the grace of the Lord Jesus hath devoted himselfe to the service of the least of Christs little Ones which beleeve in him And is Yours in the Lord Iesus BENIAMIN AUSTIN The Scriptures manifest the Son and Holy Ghost to be God equall with the Father lib. 1. c. 1. By ascribing to them 1. Such names ●s are proper to God onely cap. 2. as In the Old Test●ment 1. Jehovah cap. 3. 2. Lord of Hosts cap. 4. 3. Jah cap. 5. 4. Eheieh or I am ca. 6. 5. El cap. 7. 6. Elohim cap. 8. 7. Adonai cap. 9. 8. Shaddai cap. 10. In the new Testament 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God cap. 11. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lord ca. 12. 1. One cap. 2. 2. Eternall cap. 3. 3. Omnipresent cap. 4. 4. Omnipotent cap. 5. 5. Omniscient cap. 6. 6. Incomprehensible cap. 7. 7. Most wise cap. 8. 8. Most free cap. 9. 9. Most holy cap. 10. 10. Good cap. 11. 11. Gracious cap. 12. 12. True cap. 13. 13. Living cap 14. 14. Glorious cap. 15. 15. Blessed cap. 16. 1. Common works which extend to all Sect. 1. 1. Creation cap. 2. 2. Preservation or providence 3. Illumination cap. 5. 4. Judging the earth cap. 6. 1. Universally in regard of all creatures in all places cap. 3. 2. Particularly in regard of the Sea cap. 4. 2. Speciall works the benefit whereof reach onely to the church of God Sect. 2. which are such works as the Lord worketh in regard of 1. Christ the head of the Church as his 1. Incarnation cap. 2. 2. Attestation cap. 3. 3. Vocation cap. 4. 4. Miraculous operations cap. 5. 5. Death and Passion cap. 6. 6. Resurrection cap. 7. 7. Ascension cap. 8. 2. The Church the body of Christ and do concerne 1. The Church in generall sect 3. as namely the Lords 1. Covenanting with them cap. 2. 2 Delivering Israel out of Egypt cap. 3. 3 Sending Angels to them cap. 4. 4 Sending them Prophets cap. 5. 5 Sending them Apostles cap. 6. 6 Appointing them their places in which they must preach cap. 7. 7 Speaking in and by the Apostles and Prophets cap. 8. 8 Strengthning them in their calling● cap. 9. 9 Sending Pastours and Teachers cap. 10. 10 Giving lawes to the Church cap. 11. 11 Giving the law on Sinai cap. 12.

the Nations shall call him blessed Psal 72.17 so Paul Tit. 2.13 Thirdly the Holy-Ghost is blessed Blessed be the glorie of the Lord from his place or as the Originall will beare it the blessed glorie of the Lord c. Ezek. 3.12 I know that some referre this place to Christ as spoken more peculiar of him others to Father Sonne and Holy-Ghost but I rather think that acclamation to be given especially to the Holy-Ghost the Spirit of glorie 1 Pet. 4.14 whose Divine work on the Prophet is twice mentioned almost in the same words both immediately before and immediately after this acclamation Ezek. 3.12 13 14. Then the Spirit tooke me up and I heard behind me a voyce of a great rushing saying Blessed be the glorie of the Lord from his place I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another and the noise of the wheeles over-against them and a noise of a great rushing so the Spirit lifted me up Thus Father Sonne and Holy-Ghost are one and the same blessed Lord God though the Sonne hath his personalitie from the Father that begetteth him Heb. 1.5 and the Holy-Ghost hath his from the Father and the Sonne from whom he proceedeth Joh. 14.26 Joh. 15.26 yet the Sonne and Holy-Ghost are God of themselves and have their blessednesse as being of one essence substance and nature with the Father of themselves even as the Father hath who are mutually in each other Prov. 8.30 the Father in the Sonne and the Sonne in the Father Joh. 14.11 Joh. 10.38 and the Father and the Sonne are in the Spirit Zach. 7.12 and the Spirit in them 1 Cor. 2.11 even as the Spirit of of man is in man being most absolutely happy in action and contemplation To whom let us give praise and say with the Psalmist Blessed be the Lord God the God of Israel who onely doth wondrous things and blessed be his glorious Name for ever and let the whole earth be filled with his glory Amen and Amen Psal 72.18 19. The third Booke The Workes of GOD are equally wrought by FATHER SONNE and HOLY-GHOST The first Section CHAP. I. The Scriptures manifest the Sonne and the Holy-Ghost to be God equall with the Father by ascribing to them equally with the Father such Workes as are proper to God HE that worketh such Workes as God alone worketh is God equall with the Father in Power and Glory The Sonne and Holy-Ghost worke such Workes as God alone worketh Therefore the Sonne and the Holy-Ghost are God equall with the Father in Power and Glory The Workes of God are of two kinds First there is Opus ad intra vel personale the Personall Workes of God which are begun by and terminated in some Person of the Deitie as the generation of the Sonne by the Father and the procession of the Holy-Ghost from the Father and the Sonne these are simply personall Workes whereby the Persons are distinguished from each other These some call Workes of Relation Secondly there is Opus ad extra vel essentiale Essentiall Workes of God and they are such as are common Workes of the Father the Sonne and the Holy-Ghost and are terminated in the Creature where it is the Scriptures use to attribute these common Workes sometimes to one Person and sometimes to another whereby they hold forth unto us the Unitie both of Nature and of Working which is in the Trinitie of Persons These Essentiall Workes are undivided according to that knowne Axiome Opera Trinitatis ad extra sunt indivisa None of them doth ought for us without all My Father worketh hitherto saith Christ and I worke Joh. 5.17 where as Ch●ysostome observeth He saith not My Father worketh and I subminister to him but he using the same word of the Father and of himselfe saith My Father worketh and I worke whatsoever things the Father doth the Sonne doth likewise Joh. 5.19 and so the Holy-Ghost who speaketh not of himselfe but whatsoever he shall heare that shall he speake Joh. 16.13 14. Hence every Person Worketh of himselfe according to that causall power which he exerciseth where there is not any preheminence nor difference in dignitie but an unitie and identitie of one and the same cause they having one Essence there is therefore one operation That therefore which the Father doth the Sonne doth and what the Father and the Sonne doe the Holy-Ghost likewise doth as I shall shew in these Outward Common and Essentiall actions Yet as there is a distinct order of subsisting so they have a distinct manner of working and they being three Persons they work in three distinct manners The Holy-Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Sonne usually worketh from them both He shall receive of mine saith Christ and shew it unto you all things that the Father hath are mine Joh. 16.14 15. The Sonne having his personalitie from the Father usually worketh from the Father The Sonne doth nothing of himselfe but what he seeth the Father doe Joh. 5.17 Thus each Person Worketh according to the manner of his subsisting which manifesteth a diversitie of Persons but no difference or inequalitie of power For they Worke not as Instruments one to another but as Co-workers tanquam principium a principio as one Principle from another in regard of their Persons but as one and the same Principle in regard of their Essence where the Sonne in regard of his Essence he is God of himselfe and worketh of himselfe and so doth the Holy Ghost likewise But as the Sonne is begotten of the Father so he worketh from the Father These words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by and in which are oft-times found in Scripture to expresse the Personall working of the Sonne and Holy-Ghost yet are not so used as if the Sonne and the Holy-Ghost were subordinate Instruments to the Father but as one and the same efficient cause For these Prepositions you shall finde indifferently prefixed to the Works of the Father and of the Sonne and of the Holy Ghost First 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or by is used in respect of First the Father Gal. 1.1 Paul an Apostle not of men nor by men but by Jesus Christ and God the Father Eph. 1.1 Paul an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God Col. 1.1 2 Tim. 1.1 yea the Father no Instrument of choosing Paul to be an Apostle but an efficient cause Jude saith Jude 1. we are sanctified by God the Father yet he is not the Instrument but the cause of our Sanctification And Christ is said to be raised up by God the Father Rom. 6.4 and God is faithfull by whom ye are called to the fellowship of his Sonne 1 Cor. 1.9 yet the Father is no Instrument but a cause of Christs Resurrection and of our Vocation Secondly the Sonne Joh. 1.3 Heb. 1.2 Col. 1.16 Eph. 3.9 Gal. 1.1 Thirdly the Holy-Ghost Act. 11.28 1 Cor. 12.3 yet in none of these places is it

12 The transg ession whereof doth off●nd him c. 13. provoke him c. 14 13 Working wonders cap. 15. 14 Gifts of Miracles cap. 16. 1● Building the Church ca. 17. 16 Raising the Dead cap. 18. 1. Election cap. 2. 2. Redemption in keeping and and delivering us from 1. Sin cap. 3. 2 Satan cap. 4. 3. Wrath to come ca. 5. 3 Iustification in regard both of 1. Remission of sinnes or healing the ●oul cap. 6. 2. Imputation of the Righteousnesse of Christ cap. 7. 4. Fai●h cap 8. 5. Hope cap. 9. 6. True Knowledge cap. 10. 7. Our union and communion with God cap 11. 8. Adoption cap 12. 9. Sanctificat●on in the beginning and progresse thereof by Drawing us to him c. 14. Quicknin us cap. 15. Multiplying his graces in us cap. 16. 10 Giving us testimony we are his c●p ●7 11. Sealing us cap. 18. 12. Givi●g unto us Christian Liberty cap. 19. 13. Glorification cap. 20 2. The Faithfull in particular Sect. 4. as namely in In both the old and in the new 1. Father cap. 13. 2. Highest cap. 14. 3. Lord God cap. 15. 4. L. G. Almighty c. 16 5. Great G d cap. 17. 6. Great King cap. 18. 7 The G. of Israel c. 19 2. Such Attributes as are proper to God lib. 2. cap. 1. as 3. Such works as are proper to God lib. 3. which are either 4 Such divine honour and religious worship as is proper to God al●ne lib. 4. as 1. Worship given by Men cap. 2. Angels cap. 3. 2. Obedience and Service cap. ● 3. Love cap. 5. 4. Hearing of him cap. 6. 5. Knowledge of him cap. 7. 6. Beleeving on him cap. 8. 7. Hoping and trusting on him cap. 9. 8. Baptizing in his Name cap. 10. 9. Swearing by him cap. 11. 10. Prayer cap. 12. 11. Praise by Men cap. 13. Angels cap 14. 12. Building to him the Temple of Jerusalem which was his house built for his honour and worship cap. 15. 13. Legall Sacrifices were offered to him cap 16. 14. Glorifying him in our lives and conversations cap 17. THE Consubstantialitie and Equalitie of FATHER SON and HOLY-GHOST Who are but one GOD yet three Persons Distinguished from each other both internally by their Personall Properties and externally by their order in co-working The first Booke The Names of GOD are equally ascribed to FATHER SONNE and HOLY-GHOST in the Scriptures CHAP. I. THERE is nothing which a Christian can know with more comfort or erre in with greater danger then this great and holy mysterie of three Persons in one divine essence the conceit either of three substances or of but one subsistence is erroneous and damnable Neither have we I say not any better but any other Guide to direct us with safetie to search out this mysterious Truth but the holy Scriptures Reason must not beare sway herein not because it contradicteth that but because this transcendeth that where if Reason might be admitted our Pilot to steere our Faith in its right course it would not be prayse-worthy to beleeve But when Faith layeth hold on a bare Truth which is above Reason now we beleeve not because it is mani ●sted by sense or demonstrated by Reason but b●cause it is so taught in the holy Scriptures This is that which maketh us happie and our Faith commendable As our Saviour telleth Thomas when he was by his outward senses convinced of the Lord Christs divine power Thomas because thou hast seene me thou hast beleeved blessed are they that have not seene and yet have beleev●d Joh. 20.29 For it is a signe we take God at his word when we beleeve a Truth because the Scripture affirmeth it And without doubt the Majestie of Heaven is so farre pleased to reveale himselfe to us in his Word as we clothed with corruptible bodies are capable of by which we may know so much of God as is not onely usefull for our comfort but also needfull for our salvation The greatest measure of this knowledge which we can attaine in this life is but darke in comparison of that clearer Light which we shall enjoy in Heaven Although even that will not be a totall comprehending of the Lords infinite Majestie yet it will be a full apprehending in resp●ct of our selves who are finite creatures and therefore cannot know so much of an infinite God as he himselfe knoweth of himselfe In that place of Paul Then shall I know as also I am knowne 1 Cor. 13.12 The word as is a note of qualitie not of equalitie it intimateth a likenesse it demonstrateth no proportion yet we shall have such a perfect and certaine knowledge of God as will conduce to our eternall felicitie In the meane while the Lord affordeth us some comfortable glimpses of his Divine Majestie He looketh forth upon us out of the windowes and sheweth himselfe through the Lattesse Cant. 2.9 We may see Christ shining gloriously on our soules through the grates and windowes of his Word and Sacraments The wall of our flesh hindreth the full fruition of him We can onely by the eye of Faith see the Lord as through a Glasse darkely 1 Cor. 13.12 We see him in the Ministerie of his Word which we shall doe well if we take heed thereunto as unto a Light that shineth in a darke place untill the day dawne and the Day-starre arise in our hearts 2 Pet. 1.19 The Scriptures are the Light which we must looke unto that we may steere our Faith aright in the troublesome Sea of this World that we may not make shipwrack of Faith and a good Conscience 1 Tim. 1.18 19. Oh that we would consider that in all the wayes wherein we walke if we have not this Light to direct us we either wander in darknesse or are mis-led by an ignis fatuus a mock-Light which if we follow we hazard our soules and lose our true comfort And amongst other Truths we shall clearely discerne if we looke not through the false-colouring Spectacles of Arrius even this Truth That the Sonne and Holy-Ghost are God equall with the Father when as the Scriptures ascribe to them such Names Attributes Workes Worship as are proper to God and common to them with the Father CHAP. II. The Scriptures manifest the Sonne and Holy-Ghost to be God equall with the Father by ascribing to them equally with the Father such Names as are proper to God FOr these who have the Names of the true God in the Scriptures properly definitively and absolutely predicated of them even as the Father hath are truly God as the Father is But the Sonne and the Holy-Ghost have the Names of the true God properly definitively and absolutely predicated of them in the Scriptures even as the Father hath Therefore the Sonne and the Holy-Ghost are truly God as the Father is The Major is evident the Minor I shall prove by induction shewing unto you out of the Scriptures That not onely one or two Names of God but all the usuall Names of God are equally attributed