Chapter 2) Of God, and of the Holy Trinity

1. There is but one only,¹ living, and true God:² who is infinite in being and perfection,³ a most pure spirit,⁴ invisible,⁵ without body, parts,⁶ or passions,⁷ immutable,⁸ immense,⁹ eternal,¹⁰ incomprehensible,¹¹ almighty,¹² most wise,¹³ most holy,¹⁴ most free,¹⁵ most absolute,¹⁶ working all things according to the counsel of His own immutable and most righteous will,¹⁷ for His own glory;¹⁸ most loving,¹⁹ gracious, merciful, long-suffering, abundant in goodness and truth, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin;²⁰ the rewarder of them that diligently seek Him;²¹ and withal, most just and terrible in His judgments,²² hating all sin,²³ and who will by no means clear the guilty.²⁴

1. Deut. 6:4; I Cor. 8:4, 6
2. I Thess. 1:9; Jer. 10:10
3. Job 11:7, 8, 9; Job 26:14
4. John 4:24
5. I Tim. 1:17
6. Deut. 4:15, 16; John 4:24, with Luke 24:39
7. Acts 14:11, 15
8. James 1:17; Mal. 3:6
9. I Kings 8:27; Jer. 23:23, 24
10. Ps. 90:2; I Tim. 1:17
11. Ps. 145:3
12. Gen. 17:1; Rev. 4:8
13. Rom. 16:27
14. Isa. 6:3; Rev. 4:8
15. Ps. 115:3
16. Exod. 3:14
17. Eph. 1:11
18. Prov. 16:4; Rom. 11:36
19. I John 4:8, 16
20. Exod. 34:6, 7
21. Heb. 11:6
22. Neh. 9:32, 33
23. Ps. 5:5, 6
24. Nah. 1:2, 3; Exod. 34:7

2. God hath all life,²⁵ glory,²⁶ goodness,²⁷ blessedness,²⁸ in and of Himself; and is alone in and unto Himself all-sufficient, not standing in need of any creatures which He hath made,²⁹ nor deriving any glory from them,³⁰ but only manifesting His own glory in, by, unto, and upon them: He is the alone fountain of all being, of whom, through whom, and to whom are all things;³¹ and hath most sovereign dominion over them, to do by them, for them, or upon them whatsoever Himself pleaseth.³² In His sight all things are open and manifest;³³ His knowledge is infinite, infallible, and independent upon the creature,³⁴ so as nothing is to Him contingent, or uncertain.³⁵ He is most holy in all His counsels, in all His works, and in all His commands.³⁶ To Him is due from angels and men, and every other creature, whatsoever worship, service, or obedience He is pleased to require of them.³⁷

25. John 5:26
26. Acts 7:2
27. Ps. 119:68
28. I Tim. 6:15; Rom. 9:5
29. Acts 17:24, 25
30. Job 22:2, 3
31. Rom 11:36
32. Rev. 4:11; I Tim. 6:15; Dan. 4:25, 35
33. Heb. 4:13
34. Rom. 11:33, 34; Ps. 147:5
35. Acts 15:18; Ezek. 11:5
36. Ps. 145:17; Rom. 7:12
37. Rev. 5:12, 13, 14

3. In the unity of the Godhead there be three persons, of one substance, power, and eternity; God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost.³⁸ The Father is of none, neither begotten, nor proceeding: the Son is eternally begotten of the Father:³⁹ the Holy Ghost eternally proceeding from the Father and the Son.⁴⁰

38. I John 5:7; Matt. 3:16, 17; Matt. 28:19; II Cor. 13:14
39. John 1:14, 18
40. John 15:26; Gal. 4:6