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Last, ana that With respect to His humanity as
well as His divinity, lie is the object Of worship
VI All TIC angelic hosts
Inns the doctrine Of: the sole divinity Of
Jesus Christ is alike free from the objections
winch reason urges against the tri-personal sys-
TEN. aud from the contraricty to Scripture which
IS 60 apparent in the Unitarian schcmc~ and
with what. delight should it be received US tho
only view OF divine truth capable Of relieving
obscurity, all room ior doubt, and presents us
Wlth an object OF worship on which the un-
derstandins can fix itself, and which tho heart
can \ embrace with all its best affections.
~ nelng thus clear that tho Father is not q
distinct Person from the Son, nor the Son from
tue Father it will readily be seen that the Holy
Spirit cannot be Person distinct from either.
Inc passage III John. w, = where, when Jesus
Was giving their commission to His disciples,
he brcathed on thcu', and saith unto them,
Receive ye the Holy Gllosr,' affords all the dem
onstration that Tan be desired against the sepa-
rate personality Of the Holy Spirit. Could Di-
vine Person be infused into the persons of the
disciples BY breathings How evident it Is, from
thls significant action Of tho Lord, that the Holy
Spirit is sphere OF divine life proceeding iron,
Hun, and entering BY influx into the hearts aud
minds Of His faithful people!
Tho view then Of the Divine Trinity which
clears the subject from all pcrplcxity Is briefly
this: By the Father, when mentioned In Scrip
tnrc, is not meant u God distinct from Jesus
Christ, hut Ills inmost principlc OF divine life,
answering Ito compare things infinite with
things ftnite) to the soul in man. By the Son is
not meant Divine Being separate from the
Father, but the manifested form Of the Di-ine
Essence, answering to the body III man. And
by the Holy Spirit is not 1ncaut Divine Person
distinct from both, but the operating life or iu-
tiucnce OF the Divine Essence and Divine Form
in union, answering to the operating faculty
in man, or the influence which he exercises upon
persons and things within his sphere Of action.
Thus the whole Divine Trinity centres in the ono
undivided person OF the Lord Jesus Christ, and
the Father, Son; and Holy Spirit no more form
three Divine Persons than soul, body, aud oper-
atiun, in each OF Us, form three persons. As GOO
made man in His own image and likeness, the
finite trinity III must be image and like
ness OF the Infinite Trinity in God.
It thus clearly appears that il VIC would have
eternal lie we must come unto the Lord Coz
and Savior Jesus Chris, ,for " Tie hath the word;
Of eternal life.' He Himself declares, ~ All
the Resurrection and the Lite: lie that hclicyctl
in Nc, though lie were dead: yet shall he live
and he that bclieyeth III Nc stall never die
{John. xi., ~. Let us then 90 to the Lord jest;
Christ, the manifested deborah: let us viii
deep reverence and humility seek divine instruc
tion iron Hin in Ills Word, aud implore Eli
us yield Our hearts aud hands to His service
| and devote all our powers to Him, vino is alon
worthy to receive glory, honor, might, majesty
and dominion, for ever and ever. Then shall VI,
realize the cxuItation OF the faithful, as dc
| scribcd by tho prophet, Wien he exclaimE
s. And it stall be said in that day, So this Is OIL
| God! We have waited for Him, ne will be Slat
and rejoice ill His salvation lisa, xxv., %.
14AY3fAS.