Christian belief of ONE, SUPREME, SELF-EXISTENT ESSENCE
--not deducible from reason, or the light of nature-taught
by revelation-shewing a TRINITY of Persons in JEHOVAH—
different opinions respecting their mode of existence.
Doctrine of Eternal Generation-on what founded--how ex-
plained-by Dr. Bull-finding fault with a saying of Tertul
lian, and calling it a "monstrous effatum."
Nicene Creed farther considered-meaning of the clause “be-
"gotten of his Father before all worlds"-begotten into the
office of man's Redeemer-why said to be "God of God”—
explained by Ignatius-" Light of Light," properly "Lumen
"ex Luce"-the clause "begotten not made" descriptive of
our Saviour's incarnation—as “of one substance with the Fa-
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"ther"