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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sense_n	divine_a	reason_n	revelation_n	1,589	5	9.4988	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50303	Tri-unity, or, The doctrin of the Holy Trinity asserted in a discourse on 2 Cor. XIII. XIV / by Isaac Mauduit ...	Mauduit, Isaac.	1694 (1694)	Wing M1334; ESTC R32420	18,315	57

therefore be three distinct Persons subsisting in one divine Essence These Three are One i. e agreeing in their Testimony and united in their Nature The Father Son and Holy Ghost enjoy the same Substance in an inseparable equality We have but one God because there is but one Godhead and the Elect are related to One whom we also believe to be Three One is not less God than the other nor are they separated in Will or divided in Power But there is one undivided Deity in several Persons As if there were three Suns cohering there would be one Commixture of Light Jesus Christ did not say I am the Father but I am in the Father Nor did he assert I and the Father am one but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are one John 10.30 That we might not exclude the Son from the Godhead nor confound him with the Father I and my Father are one One in the Dignity of the Deity because God begat God One in Kingdom both reigning over the same Subjects One in Will and Operation Cyril We acknowledge one God the Father of himself and unbegotten One Son begotten of the Father and one Spirit having his Subsistence of God of the same Nature and Glory the same in all things except this That he is not unbegotten as the Father nor begotten as the Son He that begat only knows him that is begotten and none knows the Father but the Son Believe that God had a Son but how do not curiously enquire It suffices to understand that God had only one Son naturally begotten who did not begin to be when born in Bethlehem but was before the World Mic. 5.2 Out of thee shall he come forth that is to be Ruler in Israel whose goings forth have been of old from everlasting More is not revealed nor is the Generation of the Son by the Father described Why should any pragmatically search into what is not mention'd We know not all that is written and do we curiously pry into what is not recorded Nescire velle quae magister maximus non docuit erudita est inscientia It 's no shame to be ignorant of what Christ has not discovered or to expect clearer Revelations in another World Where Saints shall know more by the pure illumination of the glorious Trinity and be more modest adoring then the incomprehensible God Father Son and Holy Ghost 3. Natural Reason may not oppose this Truth so confirmed in Divine Revelations Aquinas indeed notes That he that endeavours to prove the Doctrine of the Trinity by the Light of Nature derogates from the Faith 1. As to the Dignity of its Articles being invisible Objects exceeding Humane Reason Heb. 12.1 Faith is the substance of things not seen 2. As to the likelihood of drawing others to the Faith for when any alledges Arguments which are not cogent he becomes the scorn of Infidels who imagin that we do leaning upon such Reasons subscribe the Doctrines on these accounts However our Minds depending on the Divine Authority of the Sacred Revelations may thereby be fully satisfied in this Truth Arguments from Sense may not be insisted on if contrary to Reason e. g. Though some Stars seem to us like Spangles yet Reason corrects such an Opinion by urging their vast distance from us This necessarily infers them to be great Bodies else they would be wholly invisible The Sun appears greater in the Morning or towards its setting than at Noon but the ground hereof is the thickness of the Air. Now as in these Cases the Dictates of Reason do preponderate to the Suggestions of Sense So in the Mysteries of the Gospel we must prefer the Declarations of Faith above the Sentiments of Reason not presently imagining that if a Truth transcends our Capacity it is contrary to our Understanding Use the Maxims of Philosophy in subservience to Divinity keep the old Rules within their proper bounds never think them to be of equal Authority with the Sacred Oracles Ex nihilo nihil sit a privatione ad habitum non datur regressus Limit these Conclusions to a finite Power Admit the interposings of that Arm which subdueth all things to its self then the Creation or Resurrection will not be thought incredible neither wilt thou be amazed that the same numerical Essence is in three distinct Persons By way of Vse 1. How glorious a God do we serve One who is Infinite and Incomprehensible His Ways are unsearchable and his Works past finding out Far less can his Nature Essence Subsistence receive any bounds or be searched out unto perfection Earthly Diadems only incircle the Heads of Princes God's Laws and Men's fundamental Constitutions should keep their Feet within due limits seeing these Potentates are Creatures though of the fairest Character and are finite Beings though they are highly advanced But the God of Glory is under no Obligations or Articles nor can have any Lines drawn round about him by Men or Angels Arbitrary humane Government is very unsafe but the Most High acteth purely by his own Will as being Commensurate with his Council He needs no Rule and his Pleasure is the Supream Reason Sic volo sic jubeo stat pro ratione voluntas 2. See the necessity of studying something of this Doctrine Without a knowledge of this Truth we cannot worship God aright The Father Son and Holy Ghost are the Object of Divine Faith and of Gospel Adoration Neither may we direct our Addresses to either of these glorious Persons but as united to one another We confess there is but one God yet must be acquainted with Him as he is in Christ else in Prayer we can have no confidence Heb. 10.19 20 21 22. Some knowledge of the Trinity is necessary to Salvation and all baptized Persons profess their belief in the Father Son and Holy Ghost which Declaration implies An acknowledgment that the Father Son and Holy Spirit are one true Coeternal God one in Essence though three in an incom prehensible manner A Confession that Jesus is God-man the Saviour of the World With an hearty yielding up our selves to that God who in his Covenant reveals and offers himself under the Relation of our God as an appeased Father reconciling Redeemer and sanctifying Spirit Or as St. Aug. explains it We believe Father Son and Holy Ghost to be one God the universal Creatour and Sovereign Also that the Father is not the Son nor the blessed Spirit either the Father or the Son Sed Trinitatem relatarum ad invicem Personarum unitatem aequalis essentiae A Trinity of Persons related to one another equally united in the same Nature 3. Bless God for revealing this Mystery it not being discernible by the Light of Nature The Pagan Philosophers had no true Notions of God as the Author Object Matter or Way to Eternal Life nor any right Apprehensions of the blessed Trinity This glorious Article of Vnity in Trinity was hid from them The wiser of the Heathen had some dark and