set down all the highest Expressions 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 searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the MIND of the SPIRIT.

The will of God.

1 Thess. IV. 3. This is the WILL of GOD. Acts XXII. 14. The God of our Fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest 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 passage is meant of Christ and of his will. The God of our fathers (said Ananias).

hath

་

hath CHOSEN thee, &c. but the person in God who appeared to Ananias and said of Saul, he is a CHOSEN vessel unto ME, was the Lord, even Jesus, Acts IX. 15, 17. For want of comparing the Scripture with itself, Dr. Clarke has set down the text of Acts XXII. 14. as a character of the Father only. N° 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

-signs and wonders by the

CHRIST may rest upon me.

Rom. XV. 16.

POWER of the SPIRIT of God.

The Scripture therefore has ascribed divine power, and that in the same exercise of it, (the ministry and miracles of St. Paul) to Christ and the Spirit in common with God the Father. So that when all glory and power is ascribed to the only wise God, what God can that be, but the Trinity? Upon this principle the Scripture is easily reconciled upon any other it is unintelligible, as the reader

may

may soon find by consulting Dr. Clarke and some 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 distinctions, which no man can understand, and which themselves are not agreed in, nor ever will be to the world's end. Yet they often dispute against us from the acknowledged simplicity of the Scripture !

VIII.

The Trinity in Unity is Eternal.

Rom. XVI. 25, 26. The mystery

made

manifest according to the commandment (α1wv18) of the EVERLASTING GOD.

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

Heb. IX. 14. who through (als) the EVERLASTING SPIRIT.

* Dr. Clarke allows these words in this place to mean Christ, yet where the same words occur in Rev. I. 8. with the addition of the epithet Almighty, he denies it; though they are demonstrated to be spoken of the same person by the context and tenour of the whole

a See No. 686. 414.

chapter:

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 are the first and the last, yet not coeternal. Which is sufficient of itself to justify all that was said above concerning his distinctions, &c. See Ch. I. Art. III.

IX.

IS TRUE.

that

John VII. 28. He that sent me is TRUE Rev. III. 7. These things saith he is TRUE, he that hath the key of David, &c. 1 John V. 6. It is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the SPIRIT is TRUTH η αληθεια, THE truth.

X

is Holy.

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

Acts III. 14. But ye denied THE HOLY ONE, and desired a murderer to be released

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

unto

unto you, &c. See also Dan. IX. 24. and Rev. III. 7.

1 John II. 20. Ye have an unction from THE HOLY ONE; that is, an anointing from the Holy Ghost, who is called

TO

TO

John XIV. 26. Το πνεύμα Το αγιον, The Spirit the Holy One.

XI.

Is omnipresent.

Jer. XXIII. 24. Do not I fill heaven and

earth, saith the LORD?

-the fulness of HIM (Christ)

Eph. I. 22. that filleth all in all.

Psal. CXXXIX. 7, 8. then from thy SPIRIT? heaven, THOU art there;

hell, THOU art there also.

XII.

Whither shall I go -If I go up into if I go down into

is the fountain of life.

Deut. XXX. 20. love the LORD thy GOD, for HE is thy LIFE.

Col. III. 4. When CHRIST who is our

LIFE shall appear, &c.

Rom. VIII. 10. The SPIRIT is LIFE.