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Chapter 7.—God is a Trinity, But Not Triple
(Triplex).
But God is truly called in manifold
ways, great, good, wise, blessed, true, and whatsoever other thing
seems to be said of Him not unworthily: but His greatness is the
same as His wisdom; for He is not great by bulk, but by power; and
His goodness is the same as His wisdom and greatness, and His truth
the same as all those things; and in Him it is not one thing to be
blessed, and another to be great, or wise, or true, or good, or in
a word to be Himself.
9. Neither, since He is a Trinity,
is He therefore to be thought triple (triplex)615
| 615 [The Divine Unity is trinal, not
triple. The triple is composed of three different substances. It
has parts, and is complex. The trinal is without parts, and is
incomplex. It denotes one simple substance in three modes or forms.
“We may speak of the trinal, but not of the triple deity.”
Hollaz, in Hase’s Hutterus, 172.—W.G.T.S.] | otherwise
the Father alone, or the Son alone, will be less than the Father
and Son together. Although, indeed, it is hard to see how we can
say, either the Father alone, or the Son alone; since both the
Father is with the Son, and the Son with the Father, always and
inseparably: not that both are the Father, or both are the Son; but
because they are always one in relation to the other, and neither
the one nor the other alone. But because we call even the Trinity
itself God alone, although He is always with holy spirits and
souls, but say that He only is God, because they are not also God
with Him; so we call the Father the Father alone, not because He is
separate from the Son, but because they are not both together the
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