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A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity.
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Preface.
Novatian’s treatise
concerning the Trinity is divided into thirty-one chapters. He
first of all, from chapter first to the eighth, considers those words
of the Rule of Truth or Faith,5015
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Which we call the Creed. | which bid us believe on God the Father
and Lord Almighty, the absolutely perfect Creator of all things.
Wherein among the other divine attributes he moreover ascribes to Him,
partly from reason and partly from the Holy Scriptures, immensity,
eternity, unity, goodness, immutability, immortality, spirituality; and
adds that neither passions nor members can be attributed to God, and
that these things are only asserted of God in Scripture
anthropopathically.5016
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the ninth chapter to the twenty-eighth he enters upon the diffuse
explanation also of those words of our creed which commend to us faith
in the Son of God, Jesus Christ, the Lord our God, the Christ promised
in the Old Testament, and proves by the authority of the old and new
covenant that He is very man and very God. In chapter eighteenth
he refutes the error of the Sabellians, and by the authority of the
sacred writings he establishes the distinction of the Father and of the
Son, and replies to the objections of the above-named heresiarchs and
others. In the twenty-ninth chapter he treats of faith in the
Holy Spirit, saying that finally the authority of the high admonishes
us, after the Father and the Son, to believe also on the Holy Spirit,
whose operations he recounts and proves from the Scriptures. He
then labours to associate the unity of God with the matters previously
contended for, and at length sets forth the sum of the doctrines above
explained. [Anthropopathy, see cap. v. p. 615.] | E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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