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| The Trinity the True Object of Enjoyment.
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Chapter 5.—The Trinity the True
Object of Enjoyment.
5. The true objects of enjoyment,
then, are the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, who are at
the same time the Trinity, one Being, supreme above all, and common
to all who enjoy Him, if He is an object, and not rather the cause
of all objects, or indeed even if He is the cause of all. For it
is not easy to find a name that will suitably express so great
excellence, unless it is better to speak in this way: The
Trinity, one God, of whom are all things, through whom are all
things, in whom are all things.1723
Thus the Father and the Son and
the Holy Spirit, and each of these by Himself, is God, and at the
same time they are all one God; and each of them by Himself is a
complete substance, and yet they are all one substance. The
Father is not the Son nor the Holy Spirit; the Son is not the
Father nor the Holy Spirit; the Holy Spirit is not the Father nor
the Son: but the Father is only Father, the Son is only Son, and
the Holy Spirit is only Holy Spirit. To all three belong the same
eternity, the same unchangeableness, the same majesty, the same
power. In the Father is unity, in the Son equality, in the Holy
Spirit the harmony of unity and equality; and these three
attributes are all one because of the Father, all equal because of
the Son, and all harmonious because of the Holy Spirit.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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