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A51999 A treatise of the Holy Trinunity [sic]. In two parts. The first, asserting the deity of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, in the unity of essence with God the father. The second, in defence of the former, containeth answers to the chiefest objections made against this doctrine. By Isaac Marlow. Marlow, Isaac. 1690 (1690) Wing M696; ESTC R216280 76,062 199

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hid from Ages and Generations unto his Saints and left them upon Sacred Record for future Ages By which means we come to the knowledg not only of the Grace Office and Operations of the Father Son and Holy Spirit but of the great Mystery of these Three for ever blessed holy and divine Persons subsisting in the Unity of the Godhead from all Eternity But no sooner did the Glory of the Holy Trinity begin to shine in the Ministration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ But Satan the Prince of Darkness lest Men should imbrace the Truth and so his Kingdom should fall did what he could to hinder the Progress of the Gospel in its primitive Purity and in Enmity to the weal of Mankind suggested many pernicious Errours into their Minds as we may find in the Writings of the Apostles of our Blessed Lord which I forbear here to mention And throughout every successive Age he hath not wanted some Instruments to disturb the Peace of the Church with false and erronious Doctrines thereby to weaken the true Interest of Jesus Christ as well as to ruin the Souls of Men. And among others that have been broached in the World this is one viz. That the Son of God and the Holy Spirit are not one infinite and eternal God Coessential with the Father but are so much inferiour in Nature to him as to be but Creatures only But to speak more particularly Some affirm that Jesus Christ is only humane or nothing but Man And though the Racovian Catechism doth acknowledg he is more than a meer Man yet they do not allow Christ to have a divine Nature as we may see in Pag. 27 28. of that Catechism Where by way of Question they say Is the Lord Jesus then a meer Man The Answer is by no means For he was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary and therefore is from his very Conception and Birth the Son of God as we read Luke 1.30 and the Answer is closed with these Words That the Lord Jesus ought by no means to be reputed a meer Man Yet the next Question being put Hath he not also a Divine Nature The Answer is At no Hand for that is repugnant not only to sound Reason but also to the Holy Scriptures Now if they will not allow Jesus Christ to have a Divine Nature and yet do say he is more than a meer Man what can he then be unless we suppose either as Biddle saith Article 6. of his Confession of Faith that the Holy Spirit is an Angel and so by Conception he may be said to participate of their Nature or else that His visible and external Exercise of the Power of God is his Divine Nature From the first Socinus whom Biddle reproveth for it and Crellius do dissent for they deny the Spirit to be a Person but the Power and Efficacy of God the Father So that according to their opinion Christ cannot be of the Nature of Angels by conception Nay Biddle himself though he asserts the Holy Ghost to be an Angel and Christ to be conceived by him yet he saith that Christ hath no other than a humane Nature Article the 3d. Secondly If his external and visible Exercise of the Divine Power of God be the external and visible Exercise of his own Nature it is what we are pleading for and if this were but granted the main Controversy would quickly cease for the Power of God as it is in God is his Nature so it must be in Christ But it 's hard to conclude from what these Men do say what Christ and the Holy Spirit are for some are for having Christ nothing but Humane and others that He is more than a Man viz. the Son of God by Conception and yet that he is not God by Nature So likewise Biddle is for having the Holy Ghost to be an Angel others say That he is the Power and Efficacy of God the Father And what they will hammer forth at last or where they will settle who can tell However in this they all agree That neither the Son nor the Holy Ghost are God by Nature or have the supream Divine Nature of God for their own Nature And therefore forasmuch as there hath been great endeavours used to suppress the Doctrine of the Holy Trinunity and to raze out or so besmear the written Word of God that we should not discern the Beauty and Excellency of the Nature of Christ and the Holy Spirit I shall endeavour to demonstrate the Truth of their Deity and in order thereunto First I shall note that on all Hands it is agreed among Christians that the Scriptures do distinguish and make a difference between the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost and that there is but one that is personally called the Father and but one other Chief and only Son of that Father and also a third distinguished from both and called the Holy Ghost besides which there is not another that is so called as may be collected from the following Scriptures Eph. 4.4 5 6. 1 John 4.9 chap. 5.7 2 Pet. 1.16 17. John 6.27 ch 14.26 CHAP. II. Wherein is proved that there is but One God the Creator and Former of all Things TO shew this I shall only give a bare Citation of several Texts of Scripture and not take up our time in that which is so generally believed by all Persons Deut. 6.4 Hear O Israel the Lord our God is one Lord. 1 Sam. 2.2 There is none Holy as the Lord for there is none besides thee c. Isa 46.9 Remember the former Things of old for I am God and there is none else I am God and there is none like me 1 Cor. 4.6 There is none other God but One but to us there is but one God the Father of whom are all things 1 Tim. 2.5 For there is but one God c. Jam. 2.19 Thou believest there is but one God thou dost well Nehem. 9.6 Thou even thou art Lord alone Thou hast made Heaven the Heaven of Heavens with all their Hosts the Earth and all Things that are therein the Sea and all that is therein and thou preservest them all and the Host of Heaven worshippeth thee Psal 86.9 10. All Nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee O Lord and shall glorify thy Name For thou art great and doest wondrous Things thou art God alone Isa 44.6 Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel and his Redeemer the Lord of Hosts I am the first and I am the last and besides me there is no God Ver. 24. I am the Lord that maketh all Things Isa 45.18 For thus saith the Lord that created the Heavens God himself that formed the Earth and made it He hath established it He created it not in vain He formed it to be inhabited I am the Lord and there is none else There are many other Scriptures of like import but these are plain and sufficient