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Rh essence of the seed, and which is not only the initiating, but also the producing cause of all the parts of the body in their respective order, and afterwards of all acts proceeding from the soul and body united, which are called operations; wherefore from this circumstance of the production of one from another, and their consequent insertion, and conjunction one with another, it is evident that these three are of one essence, and therefore they are called three essentials.

That these three essentials, viz. soul, body, and operation, did, and do exist in the Lord God the Saviour, is universally acknowledged. That his soul was from Jehovah the father can only be denied by antichrist, for in the word of both the new and old testament he is called the son of Jehovah, the son of the most high God, the only-begotten; wherefore the divinity of the father, answering to the soul in man, is his first essential. That the son, who was born of the mother Mary, is the body of that divine soul, is a consequence of that birth, inasmuch as nothing is provided in the womb of the mother except a body, conceived by, and derived from the soul; this therefore is a second essential. That operations constitute a third essential is a consequence of their proceeding from soul and body together; for the things that proceed are of the same essence with the things from whence they proceed. That the three essentials which are father, son, and holy ghost, are one in the Lord, like soul, body, and operation in man, is evident from the words of the Lord, declaring, that he and the father are one, and that the father is in him, and he in the father; and that in like manner he and the holy ghost are one, inasmuch as the holy ghost is the divine-proceeding out of the Lord from the father, as was shewn above, No. 153, 154, by so many quotations from the word, that to prove it again would be superfluous, and