Attributed to God

they are called attributes, if should attend to the term, not because they are in God, or because they are present and inhere in him as accidents and qualities, but rather because they are attributed by us to God, that is, they are predicated of him, they belong to him and are of his essence, or more rightly said, they are his essence itself... If you want the thing they express, they are nothing but the one infinite perfection of God insofar as it is apprehended by us in various inadequate concepts.

 

Petrus van Mastricht. Theoretical-Practical Theology: Faith in the Triune God, ed. Joel R. Beeke, trans. Todd Rester, vol. 2 (Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2019), 116