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Is this difference rational, essential, or real?
It is not essential, as in the creatures, where every one hath his proper essence or being, defined and circumscribed: for the essence of the Father is not one, and the essence of the son another, and of the holy Ghost another: but one and the same, which the Father doth wholly communicate to the Son; the Father and the Son to the holy Ghost. Not only in reason, because not in notion, or mind, or only in word is he called Father, Son, and holy Ghost: neither respectively or by relation: as one man may both be, and be called a father and a son. But it is real, yet altogether incomprehensible, because each person hath his own peculiar definition, or his essential and incommunicable propriety, and differs from another not in essence, but in the manner of subsisting. ...
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It is not essential, as in the creatures, where every one hath his proper essence or being, defined and circumscribed: for the essence of the Father is not one, and the essence of the son another, and of the holy Ghost another: but one and the same, which the Father doth wholly communicate to the Son; the Father and the Son to the holy Ghost. Not only in reason, because not in notion, or mind, or only in word is he called Father, Son, and holy Ghost: neither respectively or by relation: as one man may both be, and be called a father and a son. But it is real, yet altogether incomprehensible, because each person hath his own peculiar definition, or his essential and incommunicable propriety, and differs from another not in essence, but in the manner of subsisting. ...
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Guillaume Bucanus on the distinction of personal properties among the Trinitarian persons
Is this difference rational, essential, or real? It is not essential, as in the creatures, where every one hath his proper essence or being, defined and circumscribed: for the essence of the Father…
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