This then is the true mystery, because the true unique; that the Son of God has origination without passion, that is, without ceasing to be a pure act: while a created entity is, as far as it is merely creaturely and distinguishable from the Creator, a mere 'passio' or recipient.

This unicity we strive, not to 'express', for that is impossible; but to designate, by the nearest, though inadequate, analogy,--'Begotten'.
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133.
As for the Holy Ghost, whose nature is represented to be love, I do not indeed find in Scripture that it is any where said, that the Holy Ghost is that mutual love, wherewith Father and Son love each other: but this we know, that there is a mutual love between Father and Son: 'the Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hands' .-- John iii.35.

'And the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth'.-John v.

20; and our Saviour himself tells us, 'I love the Father' .-- John xiv.31.And I shewed before, that love is a distinct act, 'and therefore in God must be a person: for there are no accidents nor faculties in God.' This most important, nay, fundamental truth, so familiar to the elder philosophy, and so strongly and distinctly enunciated by Philo Judaeus, the senior and contemporary of the Evangelists, is to our modern divines darkness and a sound.
Sect.VI.pp.