135. But if you contend that this is an
argument for the weakness of the Holy Spirit, and for a kind of
likeness to the lowliness of the body, you will also make it an
argument to the injury of the Son, because the Son said of
Himself: “As I hear I judge,” S. John v. 30.
and “The Son can do nothing else than what He seeth the Father
doing.” S. John v. 19. For if
that be true, as it is, which the Son said: “All things
which the Father hath are Mine,” S. John xvi. 15. and the Son according to the Godhead is
One with the Father, One by natural substance, not according to the
Sabellian Sabellianism
denied the doctrine of the Trinity, maintaining that God is One Person
only, manifesting Himself in three characters. See Dict. Chr.
Biog. art. “Sabellius,” and Blunt, Dict of Sects,
etc. falsehood; that
which is one by the property of substance certainly cannot be
separated, and so the Son cannot do anything except what He has heard
of the Father, for the Word of God endures forever, Ps. cxix.
[cxviii.] 89. nor is the Father ever separated from the
operation of the Son; and that which the Son works He knows that the
Father wills, and what the Father wills the Son knows how to
work.