Alexander Nowell on the Trinity and on God as Father

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Ma. Seeing there is but one God, tell me, Why in the confession of the Christian Faith, thou rehearsest three, the Father, the Son, and the holy Ghost.

Sch. Those be not the names of sundry Gods, but of three distinct Persons in the Godhead.  For God the Father, God the Son, and God the holy Ghost, being three persons, are one only God, as we are taught by the holy Scriptures;  which we ought readily to believe, rather than curiously to search the infinite depth of so secret and hidden a mystery.

Ma. Thou sayest true. Go forward therefore, why callest thou God, Father?

Sch. First and principally, for that the is the natural Father of his only son Jesus Christ.  Secondly, for that he is our Father, both for that he created us, and gave life unto us all, and also for that he hath heavenly begotten us again through the holy Ghost;  and by faith in his true and natural Son Jesus Christ, he hath elected, and adopted us his children;  and through the same Christ hath given us his Kingdom, and the inheritance of everlasting life.

For the reference, see Alexander Nowell on the Trinity and on God as Father.
 
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