John Owen: God is a simple act

[Reformed Covenanter]

That God is a simple act is the next thing excepted against and decried, name and thing; in the room whereof, that he is compounded of matter and form, or the like, must be asserted. Those who affirm God to be a simple act do only deny him to be compounded of divers principles, and assert him to be always actually in being, existence, and intent operation. God says of himself that his name Ehejeh, and he is I am, — that is, a simple being, existing in and of itself; and this is that which is intended by the simplicity of the nature of God, and his being a simple act. The Scripture tells us he is eternal, I am, always the same, and so never what he was not ever. ...

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John Owen: God is a simple act

That God is a simple act is the next thing excepted against and decried, name and thing; in the room whereof, that he is compounded of matter and form, or the like, must be asserted. Those who affi…

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[Polanus1561]

van Mastricht: ...... Moreover, (6) he would be annihilated, for a change in a most simple being can be nothing but an annihilation, inasmuch as when a most simple being has been changed, nothing remains of that which existed previously. Thus, a change in God would lead to flagrant atheism.
TPT 2:155-156