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A19285 The Christians daily sacrifice containing a daily direction for a setled course of sanctification : diuided into three bookes / by Th. Cooper. Cooper, John, fl. 1626. 1615 (1615) STC 5695; ESTC S1680 138,332 492

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to the effect because God is not compounded of matter and forme and therefore it is not well said that the three Persons cōsist of one essēce Neither 2 as the whole vnto his parts because God is indiuisible and therefore it is not well said that the Person is a part of the Essence or that the Essence doth consist of three persons for euery person is the whole diuine Essence 3 Neither as the Genus or kinde vnto the Species For the Essence is not the Genus of the three persons neither the person the Species of the Essence But God is a more common name because the Essence of the Diety is common to the three persons and may bee affirmed of each alike And the name of Father Sonne and Holy Ghost is more straight because the the persons are truly distinct cannot bee affirmed of each other And therefore it is not well said the diuine essence is the Father is the Sonne is the Holy Ghost Againe the three persons are one GOD or in one GOD. Againe they are one the same Essence Nature Diuinty again They are of the same Essence Nature c. And yet it is not well said they are of one God because there is none of these Persons which is not very God whole and perfect Wherfore the diuine Essence hath such relation to the persons as it communicateth it selfe after a singuler manner to those vnto which it is common So that The Trinitie signifieth these three persons distinguished by a threefold manner of existence in one essence of the Deitie And though this name of Trinitie be not expresly in the word yet is the thing 1. there expressed Math. 28.19 2. Corinth 13.13 Math. 9.17 2 And the name is not contradicted 3 And the sence thereof is expressed so by a necessary cōsequence 4 And the word Three whence Trinitie is deriued is expressed 1. Ioh. 5.7 And so it is a sound collection of the Deitie as Eternitie Immensitie Omnipotencie Wisedome Goodnesse c. 3 All the outward workes of the Deitie respecting the creatures either wrought in them or by them as Creation Conseruation c. 2 Wherein the person differ Namely in the works which each Person exerciseth betweene themselues as the Father existeth of himselfe and none other The Sonne is begotten of the Father from all Eternitie 1. hath his diuine Essence communicated vnto him of the Father wonderfully and so the holy Ghost proceedes eternally from the Father and the Sonne that is Hath the same diuine Essence communicated from the Father and the Sonne after an vnspeakeable manner Iob. 1. v. 1.14 vers 18. Ioh. 15.26 3 Hence appeareth the order of the Person The Father is the First Person because hee is the Fountaine of the Diuinitie of the Sonne and Holy Ghost The Sonne is the Second Person because the Deitie is communicated vnto him of the Father by the eternall generation The Holy Ghost is the Third Person because the Deitie is communicated vnto him from the Father and the Sonne by Eternall inspiration Matth. 28.19 Ioh. 1.5.7 And yet the Father is not before the Sonne nor the Father and the Sonne before the Holy Ghost in time but in the manner of existence And so as is the order of the Persons such is the order of their outward workes For though they are done by the common will and operation of the Father and the Sonne and the Holy Ghost yet is the same order of Persons kept in the doing thereof which the Persons haue in their existence So The Father is the Fountaine as of the Person so of the operation of the Son of the Holy Ghost and doth all things not as if another wrought by him as if the will of another went before communicating power and efficacie vnto him but as of himselfe as existing so vnderstanding and working of himselfe Now the Sonne and the Holy Ghost worke not of themselues but the Sonne of himselfe so as that the will of the Father goeth before and the Holy Ghost so of himselfe as that the will both of the Father and of the Sonne precedeth The Father worketh by the Sonne and holy Ghost so as that he sendeth thē is not sent of them The Sonne worketh by the holy Ghost sends him into the hearts of the beleeuers from the Father and is not sent of him but of the Father The Holy Ghost worketh and is sent of the Father and of the Sonne not of himselfe Ioh. 1.3 Col. 1.16 Heb. 1.2 Ioh. 5.19 Ioh. 8.42 Ioh. 14 26. Ioh. 15.26 And yet when the Sonne and Holy Ghost are said to be sent this is not meant of any locall motion or any mutation in God But 1. of the Eternall Will decree to performe some thing by the Sonne and holy Ghost And 2. of the Reuealing and execution of that will by the working of the Sonne and Holy Ghost so saith the Sonne That he is sent of the Father into the world that he came downe from heauen and yet that he is in heauen euen when hee was vpon the earth So is the Holy Ghost saide to be sent vnto the disciples at Pentecost when as yet he was before and dwelt with the Apostles So both are sent into the world not as if they had receiued their existence elsewhere where they were not before but because they accomplished in the world the will of the Father which was not done before and so according to that will expressed their presence and effectuall working This is the doctrine of the Trinity And it is to bee retained in the Church 1 For the glory of God that the true God may be discerned from Idols and may bee worshipped as he hath reuealed himselfe 2 For our comfort and saluation which ariseth hence that wee know the Father whom we cannot know but by the Sonne Ioh. 1.18 1. Iohn 2.23 and by confidence in him 1. Iohn 5.20 Rom. 10.24 And wee can haue no knowledge of Christ but by the Reuelation of the Spirit 1. Corin. 2. neither any sanctification from Christ but by the Spirit And therefore wee must beleeue God as hee is thus manifested in the Trinitie that wee may be saued eternally 3 This serueth for confutation of all heretickes that deny the Trinitie and the order of Persons c. and of the Iewes And 4 Also for instruction that wee be acquainted with the scriptures whereby wee may attaine to this knowledge of God not resting in the light of nature or Tradition of the Elders CHAP. VI. God is to be worshipped THus are wee to know God in the Trinitie and this knowledge necessarily inferreth that We must worship this God 1 Not onely because euen by the light of nature each nation worshipped somewhat in the place of God after their owne vaine imaginations which necessarily enforceth that God is to be worshipped 2 But the Lord hath commanded that he should be worshipped 3 Yea as he is thus reuealed in