THE WORKS OF GEORGE BULL, D.D. LORD BISHOP OF ST. DAVID'S, COLLECTED AND REVISED BY THE REV. EDWARD BURTON, D.D. FORMERLY STUDENT, AFTERWARDS CANON OF CHRIST CHURCH AND TO WHICH IS PREFIXED THE LIFE OF BISHOP BULL, BY ROBERT NELSON, ESQ. VOL. II. OXFORD: AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. MDCCCXLVI. SEP 22 1909 THE doctrine of the catholic church for the first three ages of Christianity, concerning the blessed Trinity, The principal parts and branches of the pastoral office, Concerning the Spirit of God in the faithful; how and in what manner it doth bear witness with their spirits, that they are the children of God; and what degree of hope or persuasion concerning their adoption this wit- Is printed at the end of vol. VI. See the preface, prefixed A Vindication of the Church of England from the Errors and Corruptions of the Church of Rome. Wherein, as is largely proved, the rule of faith, and all the fundamental articles of the Christian religion, are received, taught, professed, and acknowledged. Written at the request of the countess of Newburgh, in answer to a celebrated The corruptions of the Church of Rome, in relation to ecclesiastical government, the rule of faith, and form DISCOURSE I.a THE DOCTRINE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH FOR THE FIRST THREE AGES OF CHRISTIANITY, CONCERNING THE BLESSED TRINITY, CONSIDERED, IN OPPOSITION то SABELLIANISM AND TRITHEISM. HE unanimous sense of the catholic doctors of THE the church, for the first three ages of Christianity, concerning the article of the Trinity, is in short this: I. That there are in the Godhead three (not mere names or modes, but) really distinct hypostases or persons, the Father, the Son or Word of God, and the Holy Ghost. II. That these three persons are one God; which they thus explain : 1. There is but one fountain or principle of divinity, God the Father, who only is Avτóleos, God of and from himself; the Son and Holy Ghost deriving their divinity from him; the Son immediately from the Father, the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son, or from the Father by the Son. 2. The Son and Holy Ghost are so derived from the fountain of the divinity, as that they are not separate or separable from it, but do still exist in it, and are most intimately united to it. a [This discourse was written 1697, for the satisfaction of lord Arundel, as is stated at length in the Life, §. LXXXII. p. 422.] BULL, VOL. II. B |