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A classic from a leading Reformed theologian of the 1800s. The editor translated all foreign-language words and quotations, and wrote an introduction and glossary.

gnosticism and the absolute of pantheism are examples. These are mere mental abstractions, like the unknown quantity of algebra. The difference between a divine attribute and a divine person is that the person is a mode of the existence of the essence; while the attribute is a mode either of the relation or of the external operation of the essence. The qualifying adjective external is important because the internal operation of the essence describes a trinitarian person. When the divine essence energizes
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