George Hay

“ He alone perfectly knows and comprehends Himself: it is impossible for us, poor finite creatures, to know more of Him than what He is pleased to discover of Himself to us. Seeing, then, that He has revealed that there is but one only God, and that in God there are three distinct Persons, this we are to believe as a certain and Divine truth, without presuming to search further, or to know more about Him than He is pleased we should know ”

“ In which text the Word, or the second Person, the same that was made flesh, is expressly declared to be God, and the Word was God. So God the Son declares, " I and the Father are one," John, x. 30 - that is, one in substance, one in nature, one God. Of the Redeemer, the ruler in Israel, it is said, " His going forth is from the beginning, from the days of eternity," Mich. v. 2 . Of Christ, St Paul says, " Who being in the form of God, thought it no robbery to be equal with God," Philip, ii. 6 ; and again, " Christ is over all things, God blessed for ever. ”