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| Retrograde Character of the Heresy of Praxeas. The Doctrine of the Blessed Trinity Constitutes the Great Difference Between Judaism and Christianity.
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XXXI.—Retrograde Character of the Heresy of Praxeas. The Doctrine
of the Blessed Trinity Constitutes the Great Difference Between Judaism
and Christianity.
But, (this doctrine of yours bears a likeness) to
the Jewish faith, of which this is the substance—so to believe in
One God as to refuse to reckon the Son besides Him, and after the Son
the Spirit. Now, what difference would there be between us and them, if
there were not this distinction which you are for breaking down?
What need would there be of the gospel, which is the substance of the
New Covenant, laying down (as it does) that the Law and the Prophets
lasted until John the Baptist, if thenceforward the Father, the
Son, and the Spirit are not both believed in as Three, and as making
One Only God? God was pleased to renew His covenant with man in such a
way as that His Unity might be believed in, after a new manner, through
the Son and the Spirit, in order that God might now be known
openly,8200
in His proper Names
and Persons, who in ancient times was not plainly understood, though
declared through the Son and the Spirit. Away, then, with8201
those “Antichrists who deny the Father
and the Son.” For they deny the Father, when they say that He is
the same as the Son; and they deny the Son, when they suppose Him to be
the same as the Father, by assigning to Them things which are not
Theirs, and taking away from Them things which are
Theirs. But “whosoever shall confess that (Jesus) Christ
is the Son of God” (not the Father), “God dwelleth in him,
and he in God.”8202
We believe not the
testimony of God in which He testifies to us of His Son. “He that
hath not the Son, hath not life.”8203
And that man has not the Son, who believes Him to be any other than the
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