Brian Hamilton-Vise

Menno Simons: Ode to the One God

“We believe and confess with the holy Scriptures that there is an only, eternal, and true God, who is a Spirit; the God who created heaven and earth, the sea and all that is therein; the God whom heaven and earth and the heaven of heavens cannot contain, whose throne is heaven and whose footstool is the earth; who measured the waters in the hollow of His hand; who meted out the heaven with a span; who comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance; who is higher than heaven and deeper than hell, lower than earth and broader than the sea; who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see; who is an Almighty, powerful, and an ever-ruling King, in the heavens above and on the earth beneath; whose strength and power none can stay; a God above all gods, and a Lord above all lords; there is none like unto Him, mighty, holy, terrible, majestic, wonderful, and a consuming fire; whose kingdom, power, dominion, majesty, and glory is eternal, and shall endure forever. Besides this only, eternal, living, Almighty sovereign God and Lord we know no other; and since He is a Spirit so great, terrible, and invisible, He is also ineffable, incomprehensible, and indescribable, as may be deduced and understood from the Scriptures.

“This one and only eternal, omnipotent, incomprehensible, invisible, ineffable, and indescribable God, we believe and confess with the Scriptures to be the eternal, incomprehensible Father with His eternal, incomprehensible Son, and with His eternal, incomprehensible Holy Spirit. The Father we believe and confess to be a true Father, the Son a true Son, and the Holy Spirit a true Holy Spirit; not physical and comprehensible but spiritual and incomprehensible.”

—Menno Simons, Confession of the Triune God

24 February 2007 | Comments (2)
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