From Reformation to Reformation

In the next place, we set forth those Pronounements of the Old Testament, in which the Trinity of Persons is determinately noted. To...

We do not dare, says our AUTHOR, according to the best Theologians, to refer the plural Name אֱלֹהִים/Elohim/God to this, with other...

We, seeking to Confirm the doctrine thus explained, dismiss Tradition, to which the Papists at this point sometimes incorrectly flee;...

The difference between Generation and Spiration is not precisely understood by us. AUGUSTINE, in book II or III contra Maximinum, chapter...

It is now asked, whether the Spirit thus proceeds through the mode of Spiration from the Father alone, or from the Father and the Son...

But the Epithet of Holy, which is everywhere added to the Noun Spirit, inasmuch as He is called, not only τὸ Πνεῦμα ἅγιον, the Holy...

This Going Forth of the Spirit is conceptualized after the manner of the going forth of breath from the mouth, and hence it is wont to be...

At the same time, if you compare the Commentarium of the Most Illustrious LAMPE on John 15:26, with his apology against the Reverend...

Finally, Ἐκπόρευσις/Procession is attributed to the Holy Spirit, John 15:26.[1] When to the Holy Spirit is attributed Going Forth,...

Certainly the Scripture itself teaches that the Son is Equal to the Father, John 5:18, 23; Philippians 2:6: but hence it is certain that...

Of course, in Chapter IV, § 20, we saw that by Independence God is of Himself negatively, not in the sense of being His own Cause; and...

It is to be observed in addition, that this Generation of the Son does not prevent Him, with the Spirit, from being called...

You might indeed say that the first origin of the Error of Röellius was at this point, that he attributed too much to the natural Reason...

And, so that the Theologians of Leiden might gain credit for the things just now said, they subjoin a collation between the principal...

[And the care of the Dutch Synods against him ought to be highly commended and diligently observed.]See Judicium Ecclesiasticum contra...

δ. In this way the Mystery of the Trinity necessarily goes forth either unto Tritheism, that is, if the distinction of the Persons is...

4. A Theologian in the Netherlands, recently Philosophizing, proceeds our AUTHOR, is not able and ought not to be passed over here...

They Object, 3. the Goodness of God, whether it come under the name of Mercy, or under the name of Patience. The Catechesis Racoviensis, chapter VIII, cited above, question 20: “If Mercy is in God by nature, God could not by any means punish any sin." Johannes a Marck I Respond with our AUTHOR, that all Punishment is not taken away; but, either, α. is transferred to the Surety through Mercy, or, β. is deferred through Patience. What, γ. our AUTHOR has in addition concerning t

John Calvin But there are also among Our Own, those that acknowledge only a hypothetical Necessity of Punishing Sins flowing from the divine Decree, in such a way that God by His absolute Power could have remitted the Punishment due to the sinner. Among these were Calvin himself and Twiss, above all the rest: who in this regard follow too closely the conceptions of the Scholastics concerning the Absolute Power of God; to whom it belonged from this matter to feign an absolute

Faustus Socinus This is to be maintained against the Socinians, who, so that they might be able more easily to deny the Truth of the Satisfaction of Christ, also deny Vindictive Righteousness as Essential to God, and hence the consequent Necessity of Satisfaction to divine Justice. Socinus, at the beginning of book III de Christo Servatore, opera, tome 2, page 186, “I shall never be so injurious to my God, that I would dare to think, even indeed in a dream, that my sins, with