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3. The Remonstrants maintain that Christ is, and is called, the Son of God, not on account of His Generation alone, but also on account...

By today’s Socinians; who, as they speak of Christ as a Metaphoric God, so also as the Metaphoric Son of God, for four reasons enumerated...

But that Generation is overturned in the worst way: 1. by the ancient Arians, having their name from Arius, a heretic of the Fourth...

Neither is it to be set in opposition, that the Giving of Life to be had in Himself is not able to be explained of the divine Generation...

Therefore, from this interpretation of the divine Generation of the Son, given by the Lord Himself, the same is best described by our...

Not without advantage does our AUTHOR refer the text of John 5:26 to this. Of course, the Socinians, because they deny the true Deity of...

3.Nevertheless, it is Proper, and not Metaphorical; seeing that, α.the Filiation hence flowing is true and proper, Romans 8:32.β.That...

It is, 2.Hyperphysical, not Physical, which sort belongs to corporeal and material substance, which begets of itself by means of seed,...

But this Generation is, 1.Eternal and perpetual, without beginning, end, or succession, which our AUTHOR rightly observes to be set forth...

β. This Generation is the sole foundation as to why He is called the Son of God, Matthew 16:16, and indeed Beloved, etc. Indeed, the...

As there is an explicit treatment of Generation in the cited passage of the Psalm, so also under the more common name of Going Forth...

It is treated, α.of that Generation explicitly in Psalm 2:7.In which Psalm, in favor of the incarnate Son of God is decided the suit...

Like the Production of the Spirit together with the Father, Generation by the Father applies to the Son as His characteristic Property....

The Property of the Fatheris Ἀγενησία/unbegottenness, the ineffable Production of the Son and the Spirit. That is, with respect to...

γ. The three Persons also agree in Ἐμπεριχωρήσει/ emperichoresis, or mutual Inexistence/Interpenetration, as the Fathers say. Again,...

β. These Persons agree in Ἰσότητι or Equal participation of Dignity andHonor, which proceeds from the one supreme Nature. So that we...

3. That these Persons, say we, agree among themselves, α. In One Essence, which the Nicean Fathers wisely expressed by...

2. That there are Three Modes of subsistence belonging to this One Essence; or that there are, moreover, Three true Persons, which are...

An Explication of the Doctrine of the Trinity is made in Four Positions. 1. That in God there is One, altogether Simple and Singular,...

Indeed, our AUTHOR approves the wish of CALVIN, which he expresses to torment in the worst way the Papists and the Lutherans, found in...