XIX.
One is the Son, both before the incarnation and
after the incarnation. The same (Son) is both man and God, both
these together as though one; and the God the Word is not one person,
and the man Jesus another person, but the same who subsisted as Son
before was made one with flesh by Mary, so constituting Himself a
perfect, and holy, and sinless man, and using that economical position
for the renewal of mankind and the salvation of all the world.
God the Father, being Himself the perfect Person, has thus the perfect
Word begotten of Him truly, not as a word that is spoken, nor yet again
as a son by adoption, in the sense in which angels and men are called
sons of God, but as a Son who is in nature God. And there is also
the perfect Holy Spirit supplied348
of
God through the Son to the sons of
adoption, living and
life-giving, holy and imparting
holiness to those
who partake of Him,—not like an unsubstantial
breath349
breathed into them by man, but as the
living
Breath proceeding from
God. Wherefore the
Trinity is to be
adored, to be
glorified, to be honoured, and to be reverenced; the
Father being
apprehended in the Son even as the Son is of Him, and the
Son being glorified in the Father, inasmuch as He is of the Father, and
being manifested in the Holy Spirit to the
sanctified.
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