the Son and of the Holy Ghost that
they are of the Father; and it is proper of the Father that he is
unbegotten, and of the Son that he is begotten, and of the Holy Ghost
that he proceedeth.

"This therefore be thy belief; but seek not to understand the manner of
the generation or procession, for it is incomprehensible. In
uprightness of heart and without question accept the truth that the
Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost, are in all points one except
in the being unbegotten, and begotten, and proceeding; and that the
only begotten Son, the Word of God, and God, for our salvation came
down upon earth, by the good pleasure of the Father, and, by the
operation of the Holy Ghost, was conceived without seed in the womb of
Mary the holy Virgin and Mother of God, by the Holy Ghost, and was born
of her without defilement and was made perfect man and that he is
perfect God and perfect man, being of two natures, the Godhead and the
manhood, and in two natures, endowed with reason, will, activity, and
free will, and in all points perfect according to the proper rule and
law in either case, that is in the Godhead and the manhood, and in one
united person. And do thou receive these things without question,
never seeking to know the manner, how the Son of God emptied himself,
and was made man of the blood of the Virgin, without seed and without
defilement; or what is this meeting in one person of two natures. For
by faith we are taught to hold fast those things that have been
divinely taught us out of Holy Scripture; but of the manner we are
ignorant, and cannot declare it.

"Believe thou that the Son of God, who, of his tender mercy was made
man, took upon him all the affections that are natural to man, and are
blameless (he hungered and thirsted and slept and was weary and endured
agony in his human nature, and for our transgressions was led to death,
was crucified and was buried, and tasted of death, his Godhead
continuing without suffering and without change; for we attach no
sufferings whatsoever to that nature which is free from suffering, but
we recognize him as suffering and buried in that nature which he
assumed, and in his heavenly glory rising again from the dead, and in
immortality ascending into heaven); and believe that he shall come
again, with glory, to judge quick and dead, and by the words which
himself knoweth, of that diviner body, and to reward every man by his
own just standards. For the dead shal