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The Trinity

✠ God & Decree

One God in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the same in substance, equal in power and glory. The Son is eternally begotten of the Father; the Spirit eternally proceeds from the Father and the Son (the Western filioque). WCF II.3 is the Standards' Nicene-Chalcedonian Trinitarianism.

Westminster Confession

2 sections
II.3
Of God, and of the Holy Trinity →

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. The Father is of none, neither begotten nor proceeding; the Son is eternally begotten of the Father; the Holy Ghost eternally proceeding from the Father and the Son.

VIII.2
Of Christ the Mediator →

The Son of God, the second person in the Trinity, being very and eternal God, of one substance, and equal with the Father, did, when the fulness of time was come, take upon him man's nature, with all the essential properties and common infirmities thereof, yet without sin: being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost in the womb of the Virgin Mary, of her substance. So that two whole, perfect, and distinct natures, the Godhead and the manhood, were inseparably joined together in one person, without conversion, composition, or confusion. Which person is very God and very man, yet one Christ, the only mediator between God and man.

Shorter Catechism

2 questions
Q.5
Are there more Gods than one? →

There is but one only, the living and true God.

Q.6
How many persons are there in the Godhead? →

There are three persons in the Godhead; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory.

Larger Catechism

4 questions
Q.8
Are there more Gods than one? →

There is but one only, the living and true God.

Q.9
How many persons are there in the Godhead? →

There be three persons in the Godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one true, eternal God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory; although distinguished by their personal properties.

Q.10
What are the personal properties of the three persons in the Godhead? →

It is proper to the Father to beget the Son, and to the Son to be begotten of the Father, and to the Holy Ghost to proceed from the Father and the Son from all eternity.

Q.11
How doth it appear that the Son and the Holy Ghost are God equal with the Father? →

The scriptures manifest that the Son and the Holy Ghost are God equal with the Father, ascribing unto them such names, attributes, works, and worship, as are proper to God only.

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