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God (the Lord Jehovah) and His Spirit, hath sent Me."-Isaiah xlviii. 12 and 16.

The words of St. John the Evangelist exactly correspond.

"The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name."—John xiv. 26.

The words of St. Peter are also convincing.

"Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience, and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus.” -1 Pet. i. 2.

Thus "there are Three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these Three are One."— 1 John v. 7.

The union of the Three Persons of the Holy Trinity in One Name, at the Sacrament of Baptism, ordained by Christ himself, and the distinguishing Personal actions attributed to Each, in the passages thus selected, fully sanction the words of the Creed relative to the Trinity.

That the One Name in which the Three Persons of the blessed Trinity are united,

is God, appears from the words of the prophet Zechariah, and will be shewn more at large hereafter.

"In that day there shall be One Lord, and His Name One."-Zech. xiv. 9.

It is worthy observation, how great a similarity exists between the Mission of Christ, mentioned by Isaiah, and that of his own disciples.-He may be represented as saying,

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As "the Lord God, and His Spirit, hath sent Me," so send I "in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost."

"There would have been no need of the particular cautions and critical terms, "neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the Substance," says Dr. Waterland, had men been content with the plain primitive faith, in its native simplicity. But as there have been a set of men called Sabellians, who have erroneously taught that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, are all One Person, who was incarnate, and

suffered, and rose again; making the Father, and Holy Ghost, to have suffered, as well as the Son. Hence it becomes necessary to caution every pious Christian against confounding the Persons, as those men have done."

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"And as there have been others, particularly the Arians, who have pretended, very falsely, that the three Persons of the blessed Trinity, are three substances, and of different kinds; divided from each other; One being before the other; existing when the other two were not: as also being present, where the other two are not present. These false and dangerous tenets having been spread abroad, occasioned the necessity of the caution against dividing the substance.""-Waterland.

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For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost.

"The Sabellians were, therefore, ex

tremely to blame in confounding the Persons, and running them into one; taking away the distinction of Persons plainly taught in Scripture."

In Scripture, all the attributes and actions of a Person are ascribed to the Father, to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

These are so numerous, that a few instances, more immediately connected with the Creed, will suffice.

It would perhaps be conclusive, to prove from the Scriptures, that the name of God, is given to each of the three Persons in the Trinity; and hence affirm, that whatever attributes, perfections, and actions, are ascribed to Either, are necessarily applicable to All. But as it may satisfactory to compare the Creed more literally with Scripture, we proceed to do

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First. Creation is a Personal action, as well as attribute, applied to the Three Persons of the Trinity.

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."-Gen. i. 1.

"In the beginning was the Word: all things were made by Him."—John i. 1—3.

"The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."-Gen. i. 2.

"Thou sendest forth thy Spirit, and they are created."-Ps. civ. 30.

To send, is a Personal action, applied to the Three Persons of the Trinity.

"God sent his only begotten Son into the world." -1 John iv. 9.

"God and the Spirit sent Christ.”—Is. xlviii. 16. Christ sent "the Comforter, the Spirit of truth." -John xv. 26.

Eternity is an attribute, ascribed to the Father, to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

"The Eternal God is thy refuge.”—Deut. xxxiii. 27. See 1 Pet, v. 10.

"Now to the King Eternal," "the only wise God."-1 Tim. i. 17. Jer. x. 10.

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God: the same was in the beginning with God."

“I am Alpha, and Omega, the Beginning and the

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