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…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 essence or Godhead from the father to the sonne; in receiuing whereof…
William Perkins — An Exposition of the Symbol or Creed of the Apostles, AN EXPOSITION OF THE CREEDE., p. 136