THESE THREE, FATHER, SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT, ARE THREE ESSENTIALS OF ONE GOD, SINCE THEY ARE ONE, AS SOUL, BODY, AND OPERATION WITH MAN ARE ONE.

1. The Divine Trinity, which at the same time is Unity, can by no means be comprehended by any one, except as the soul, body, and proceeding operation with man; consequently unless the Divine itself which is called the Father is the Soul, the Human which is called the Son is the Body of the Soul, and the Holy Spirit is the proceeding operation. 2. Therefore in the Christian Church everywhere it is acknowledged that in Christ God and Man, that is, the Divine and the Human, are one Person, as the soul and the body in man. This is there acknowledged from the Athanasian Creed. 3. Wherefore he who comprehends the union of the soul and body and the resulting operation, comprehends the Trinity and at the same time the Unity of God, in a kind of shadow. 4. The rational man knows, or may know, that the soul of the son is from the father, and that the soul clothes itself with a body in the womb of the mother, and that afterwards all operation proceeds from both. 5. He who knows the union of the soul and body, knows also or may know that the life of the soul is in the body, and that thus the life of the body is the life of the soul. 6. Consequently that the soul lives, and therefore feels and operates, in the body and from the body; and that the body lives, feels, and operates from itself while from the soul. 7. This is because all things of the soul are of the body, and all things of the body are of the soul; hence and from no other origin is their union. 8. It is only an appearance that the soul operates separately, from itself through the body, when yet it operates in the body and from the body. 9. From these things the rational man, who knows the intercourse of the soul and the body, can comprehend these words of the Lord; that:-

The Father and He are one;

All things of the Father are His, and all His are the Father's;

All things of the Father come to Him;

The Father hath given all things into the Son's hand;

As the Father works, so the Son also works;

He that sees and knows the Son, sees and knows the Father also;

They who are one in the Son are one in the Father;

No one hath seen the Father except the Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, who hath manifested Him;

The Father is in the Son and the Son in the Father;

No one cometh to the Father except through the Son;

As the Father hath life in Himself, so hath He given to the Son to have life in Himself;

In Jesus Christ all the fulness of the Divinity dwells bodily;

and many other things besides. There by the "Son" is meant the Human of the Father. 10. From these things it follows, that the Divinity and the soul of the Son of God, our Saviour, are not distinctly two, but one and the same. The Son of God is the Human of God the Father, is fully shown above; for what else did Mary, the mother, bring forth than the Human in which was the Divine from the Father? Hence from nativity He was called the "Son of God;" for the angel Gabriel said to Mary:-

The Holy One that shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God,

and the Holy which was born from Mary was the Human in which was the Divine from the Father.