Institutio vera de praecipuis fidei articulis

is in me. Isa. 43, 45; John 14.

TENTH INSTITUTION.

Just as in the Son of man, common humanity is distinguished from his own sonship: so in the Son of God, only-begotten from the Father, the one sole Deity is distinguished, and they cannot be the same thing—the fullness of the Deity (which is infinite power and the eternal Spirit) and the proper Son of God or the Word being God, just as in the Father, his own fatherhood and his Deity, the fullness, are distinguished. For the fullness of God, that is, all sufficiency and omnipotence, belongs equally to the three witnesses—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. But to be the Father belongs to the Father alone; to be the only-begotten Son belongs to the Word, the Word being God alone. Therefore, the proper and the common are confused against God and nature by the Franciscan heretics.

ELEVENTH INSTITUTION.

The Antichrists err greatly when they dream that the Son of man is born and only-begotten from the glory of the Father, in hypostasi substance/personhood. Or they dream that this man, born of Mary and conceived of the Holy Spirit, is for that reason the Son of God, because he was conceived of the Holy Spirit and is one in fullness, or that in the Son of David there is the eternal Spirit or the fullness of the Deity, which is one sole