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The maner of this generation is this. The sonne is begotten of the substance of the father not by any fluxe, as when water is deriued from the head of the spring to the chanell: nor by decision as when a thing is cut in pieces: nor by propagation, as when a grift is transplanted into a new stocke: but by an unspeakeable communication of the whole…
William Perkins — An Exposition of the Symbol or Creed of the Apostles, AN EXPOSITION OF THE CREEDE., p. 136