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A51136 A cure for the cankering error of the new Eutychians who (concerning the truth) have erred, saying, that our blessed mediator did not take his flesh of the Virgin Mary, neither was he made of the seed of David according to the flesh, and thereby have overthrown the faith of some / by Thomas Monck. Monck, Thomas. 1673 (1673) Wing M2410; ESTC R6848 88,751 220

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being used personally because the Person sending is opposed to the Person sent Exod. 22.28 Psal 82.6 Improperly when it is attributed to Angels or Men and truly either in regard of their Office or else in respect of the revealing of the Will of God and of their Reverence Falsly either by Error or else by Usurpation and Custom as 1 Cor. 8.5 Or else by worshipping them 2 Cor. 4.4 Phil. 3.19 Exod. 7.20 Q. Be there any parts or kinds of God A. None at all because he is a most simple Essence which doth admit no composition or division and simply and in every respect of unity one and in act most infinite Q. Are there any Causes of God A. Not any for he is the Cause of all Causes Q. Is there any accident in God A. No in regard of God himself for whatsoever is in God is his Essence Q. Seeing the Essence of God is most simple in what respect doth Power Goodness Justice Wisdom and Mercy differ in God A. Not in Essence for all these Attributes in Essence are but one very thing indeed but in our weak capacity and manner of knowing in regard of us and by the effects in respect of the Creatures Q. How many sorts are there of God's Attributes A. Two the first whereof is incommunicable so that there appeareth not the least impression thereof in any of his Creatures This kind we may call absolute such is his Simplicity and which depend upon it his Immutability Eternity and Immensity The second sort is some way communicable which you may call fitly a Relative Property in that it hath relation to the Creatures such are his Power Wisdom Will Goodness Justice and Mercy Q. Be there any effects of God A. There be infinite effects of his Grace Justice Power and Mercy Q. How are the Gentiles said to be without God Eph. 2.12 seeing they adore so many Gods A. Because none of their Gods was the true God Q. But yet they acknowledged God the Creator of Heaven and Earth Answ Nor the Name of God but even God himself was altogether unknown unto them because no man knoweth God but such as confess the Father and the Son 1 Joh. 2.23 Whosoever denieth the Son the same hath not the Father but he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also Q. What use make you of the knowledge of God A. Surely this that he alone may be rightly worshipped to which purpose man was created and that we being guided by this knowledge may pray to him and acknowledge that from him we have every good thing Q. What things are repugnant to the Doctrine concerning God A. Atheism Epicurism the mad worshipping of Idols the Gentiles making of many Gods the Heresie of Manicheus making two beginnings one good another evil blasphemies against God false Opinions concerning God as that of the Anthropomorphites who make God like unto a man all doubting of God c. CHAP. V. Questions and Answers about the Trinity Quest HOw many Persons be there in that one Essence of God A. Three and those both in number and in very deed distinguished the Father Son and holy Ghost which have their subsisting in one Divine Essence whereupon it comes to pass that there be not many Gods but one God and the same Eternal Infinite and Omnipotent who is named JEHOVAH in the Scriptures and said to be most simple by reason of Essence and three by reason of Persons Q. By what testimonies of the Scripture do you prove the Trinity A. Gen. 1.1 God or Elohim created the Heavens and the Earth In which place the Learned say the Verb being of the singular Number doth signifie the most simple Essence of God and the substantive Elohim being the plural Number doth note out the three Persons Also in the creation of Man God as it were taking counsel with his Eternal Wisdom that is the Son and the Holy Ghost saith thus vers 26. Let us make Man after our Image Where he saith Let us make because of the number of the Persons and after our Image because of the unity of the Essence Gen. 19.24 The Lord rained from the Lord brimstone and fire upon Sodom and Gomorrha in which place the Person sending the rain and the Person from whom it was sent that is the Son is distinguished from the Father Q. Have you any more pregnant proofs out of the New Testament Answ 1. In the Baptism of Christ Matth. 3.16 and Joh. 1.32 the voice of the Father is heard from heaven This is my beloved Son In the same place there stands the Son by the River Jordan the holy Ghost descends in the form of a Dove and sits on Christ 2. Again in the Transfiguration there is the Son and the voice of God the Father is heard from Heaven and Christ is shadowed with a Cloud which doth signifie the Holy Ghost And further Matth. 28.19 Baptize all Nations in the Name of the Father of the Son and of the Holy Ghost He saith not Names but in the Name to shew the unity of the three Persons 2 Cor. 13.13 The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all Q. Seeing the Scripture doth not use the Name of the Trinity doth the Church well to retain the same A. Yea no doubt for the thing it self is found in Scripture two manner of wayes first according to the letter secondly according to the sense Now fith that the sense of it and the very thing it self is found in the Scriptures the Church hath liberty to use such words as may familiarly express the thing it self Moreover we call the three Persons in God the Trinity from this word Three whereof the word Trinity is derived and is expresly set down 1 Joh. 5.7 There be three that bear Witness in Heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these Three are One. Whence we argue That as from One comes Unity so from Three comes Trinity Q. How doth this word Essence differ from the word Person in God A. Essence is the Nature which is not more belonging to one and less to another of the three Persons but common to them all yea one and the same and cannot be divided and is all in each one of them not without them subsisting by it self to wit the very Deity it self And therefore the Essential Properties which be in them are one in Number and of one Nature Now a Person is the subsisting in the Divine Nature or the Nature of God which having relation to others is distinguished by some incommunicatable Property for indeed the Persons are only distinguished and not servered as three men are indeed separated though they be but one in kind The reason is because the Essence of God is infinite and impartible and therefore it is all in every Person which are not severed each from other but only distinguished amongst themselves But as for the Essence