Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
Be there any parts or kinds of God?
None at all, because he is a most simple essence, which doth admit no composition or division; and simply, and in every respect of unity one, and in act most infinite.
Are there any causes of God?
Not any, for he is the cause of all causes.
Is there any accident in God?
No, in regard of God himself; for whatsoever is in God is his essence.
Seeing the essence of God is most simple, in what respect do power, goodness, justice, wisdom, mercy differ in God?
Not in essence: for all these attributes in essence, are but one very thing indeed: but in our weak capacity and manner of knowing, in regard of us, and by the effects, in respect of the creatures.
For the reference, see Guillaume Bucanus on God without parts.
None at all, because he is a most simple essence, which doth admit no composition or division; and simply, and in every respect of unity one, and in act most infinite.
Are there any causes of God?
Not any, for he is the cause of all causes.
Is there any accident in God?
No, in regard of God himself; for whatsoever is in God is his essence.
Seeing the essence of God is most simple, in what respect do power, goodness, justice, wisdom, mercy differ in God?
Not in essence: for all these attributes in essence, are but one very thing indeed: but in our weak capacity and manner of knowing, in regard of us, and by the effects, in respect of the creatures.
For the reference, see Guillaume Bucanus on God without parts.