Gal.VI.2. Fulfil the LAW of CHRIST. * Rom. VIII. 2. The LAW of the SPIRIT of life.*

The divine Law then, is the law of God, Christ, and the Spirit of life. But it is written Jam. 4. 12. There is ONE LAWGIVER who is able to fave and to deftroy: therefore, these THREE are ONE. And here we have the true reason why the Scripture has reprefented the whole Trinity as tempted and refifted by the difobedience of man. For fin being the tranfgreffion of the Law, and the law being derived from the undivided authority of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, every breach of it is an offence against the Trinity: therefore it is written,

Deut. VI. 16. Thou shalt not TEMPT the LORD thy God.

1 Cor.X.9.—neither let us TEMPT CHRIST. Acts V.9. How is it that ye have agreed together to TEMPT the SPIRIT of the Lord? for Dr. Clarke's opinion of this matter, see Ch. II. Art. XV.

**Dr. Clarke has left both these texts out of his collection; tho' he pretends to have set down all the highest Expreffions relating to Christ and the Spirit.

VI.

The mind and will of God is the mind and will of a Trinity in Unity.

The mind of God.

1 Cor. II. 16. Who hath known the MIND of the LORD?

Ibid.We have the MIND of CHRIST. Rom. VIII. 27. He that fearcheth the hearts knoweth what is the MIND of the SPIRIT.

The will of God.

1 Theff. IV. 3. This is the WILL of GOD. Acts XXII. 14. The God of our fathers hath chofen thee, that thou shouldft know HIS WILL.*

2 Pet. I. 21. Prophecy came not in old time by the WILL of man; but holy men of God Spake as they were moved by the HOLY GHOST.

* This paffage is meant of Christ and of his will. The God of our fathers (faid Ananias) hath CHOSEN thee &c. but the perfon in God who appeared to Ananias and faid of Saul, he is a CHOSEN vessel unto ME, was the Lord, even Fefus. Acts 9. 15. 17. For want of comparing the Scripture with itself, Dr. Clarke has fet down

the

the text of Acts 22. 14. as a character of the

Father only. No. 366.

VII.

The Power of God is the Power of a Trinity

in Unity.

Eph. III. 7. -the grace of GOD given unto me, by the effectual working of HIS POWER. 2 Cor. XII. 9.-that the POWER of CHRIST

may rest upon me.

Rom. XV. 19. figns and wonders by the POWER of the SPIRIT of God.

The Scripture therefore has ascribed divine power, and that in the fame exercise of it (the miniftry and miracles of St. Paul) to Chrift and the Spirit in common with God the Father. So that when all glory and power is ascribed to the only wife God, what God can that be, but the Trinity? Upon this principle the Scripture is eafily reconciled: upon any other it is unintelligible, as the reader may foon find by confulting Dr. Clarke and fome other of the Arian writers; who to avoid this plain doctrine, have tried to amuse us with a religion made up of scholastic niceties and unnatural diftinctions, which no man can understand, and which themselves are not agreed in, nor ever will be to the worlds

end.

end. Yet they often difpute against us from the acknowleged fimplicity of the Scripture!

VIII.

The Trinity in Unity is Eternal.

Rom. XVI. 25. 26. The mystery-made manifeft according to the commandment (avis) of the EVERLASTING GOD.

Rev. XXII. 13. I (Fefus) am the FIRST and the LAST. *

Heb.IX.14.—who through (awns) the EVERLASTING SPIRIT.

* Dr. Clarke allows these words, in this place, to mean Christ, yet where the fame words occur in Rev. 1. 8. with the addition of the epithet Almighty, he denies it; though they are demonftrated to be spoken of the same person by the context and tenour of the whole chapter and he tells us, the character in one place differs from the other. So that upon his principle, the Scripture has revealed to us two different beings, both of whom are the first and the laft, yet not coeternal. Which is sufficient of itself to justifie all that was faid above concerning his diftinctions &c. fee Ch. I. art. III.

a See No. 686. 414.

See the note at Ch. III. art. XIX.

IX.

Is True.

John VII. 28. be that fent me is TRUE. Rev. III. 7. Thefe things faith be that is TRUE, he that hath the key of David &c.

1 John V.6. It is the Spirit that beareth witnefs, because the SPIRIT is TRUTH—n aλnlaa THE truth.

X.

is Holy.

Rev.XV.4. Who fhall not fear thee, O LORD, and glorify thy name? for THOU ONLY art HOLY.

Acts III. 14. But ye denied THE HOLY ONE, and defired a murderer to be released unto you &c. See alfo Dan. 9. 24. and Rev. 3.7.

1 John II. 20. HOLY ONE;

Ye have an unction from THE that is, an anointing from the

Holy Ghoft, who is called

John XIV. 26. To avevμa TO ayiov, The Spi

TO πνευμα

αγιον,

rit the Holy one.

XI.

Is omniprefent.

fer.XXIII.24. Do not I fill heaven and earth

faith the LORD?

Eph.