Chrysanthus.
God and Man combined together?
Carpophorus.
Yes, in one eternal Person
Are both natures joined together.
Chrysanthus.
Then, for this is what more presses
On my mind, can that same Word
When it was made flesh, be reckoned
God?
Carpophorus.
Yes, God and Man is Christ
Crucified for our transgressions.
Chrysanthus.
Pray explain this wondrous problem.
Carpophorus.
He is God, because He never
Was created: He is the Word,
For, besides, He was engendered
By the Father, from both whom
In eternal due procession
Comes the Holy Ghost, three Persons,
But one God, thrice mystic emblem!—
In the Catholic faith we hold
In one Trinity one God dwelleth,
And that in one God is also
One sole Trinity, ever blesséd,
Which confounds not the three Persons,
Nor the single substance severs.
One is the person of the Father,
One the Son's, beloved for ever,
One, the third, the Holy Ghost's.
But though three, you must remember
That in the Father, and in the Son,
And in the Holy Ghost . . .
Chrysanthus.