36. Again, they are concerned with our
original constitution, and final restoration, the types of the truth,
the covenants, the first and second coming of Christ, His incarnation,
sufferings and dissolution, Dissolution;
some translate ‘return’—i.e. of the Ascension;
referring the ‘resurrection, &c.’ to mankind in
general. with the
resurrection, the last day, the judgment and recompense, whether sad or
glorious; I, to crown all, with what we are to think of the
original Original.
Perhaps better ‘supreme.’ and blessed
Trinity. Now this involves a very great risk to those who are
charged with the illumination
Illumination. Some apply this to Holy Baptism, with its
preliminary instruction. of others, if they
are to avoid contracting Contracting,
i.e. by the Sabellian heresy. A parallel passage in almost
identical terms is Orat. xx. 6. their doctrine to a
single Person, from fear of polytheism, and so leave us empty terms, if
we suppose the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit to be one and the
same Person only: or, on the other hand, severing It into three,
either foreign and diverse, or disordered and unprincipled, and, so to
say, opposed divinities, thus falling from the opposite side into an
equally dangerous error: like some distorted plant if bent far
back in the opposite direction.