Substance" of the Godhead by asserting three Gods or three Lords. § 4. The Three Persons of the Godhead are distinguished by their names and mutual relation to each other, by their peculiar offices, and separate operations. § 5. The plain meaning of the Titles Father, Son, and Holy Ghost or Spirit, forbids the supposition that they are applied to one individual person under different views. The Father cannot be his own Son, or the Son his own Father: so of the Spirit. But we are moreover assured. that "the Father is made of none, neither created, nor begotten. The Son 'is of the Father alone, not made nor created, but begotten; the Holy Ghost is of the Father and of the Son, neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding." We are not, therefore, to "confound the Persons" of the Godhead. 6. To the Father is peculiarly attributed the works of Creation and of Providence; to the Son the office of Redemption; to the Holy Spirit the operation of enlightening and sanctifying the Children of Men. § 7. The Doctrine of the Trinity is the foundationstone of Christianity, and being plainly set before us in the unerring Text of the Canonical Scriptures, we are not to attempt an explanation of mysteries which far surpass our understanding, such as the mode of eternal paternity, filiation, or procession in the Trinity; but relying on the express word of God in this cannot comprehend, the wonders of nature and the manner of our own existence,- -we must hold the Catholick, or universal, Faith of the Church of Christ; and with devout submission and humility, Worship One God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity." From Scripture. SECTION I. GENESIS i. 26. And God said, Let us make man in oua image, after our likeness. 1 John v. 7. For there are three that bear record in heaven. SECTION II. 1 John v. 7. For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one. Matt. xxviii. 19. Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. 2 Cor. xiii. 14. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen. SECTION III. 1 Cor. viii. 4, 5, 6. We know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one; for though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many), but to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. Ephes. iv. 4. There is one body and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling. John i. 1, 2. 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. Gen. i. 2. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord. Ephes. i. 23. Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all. Psalm cxxxix. 7. Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? Isaiah xl. 28. Hast thou not known, hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the carth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. Heb. xiii. 8. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. Heb. ix. 14. How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? Matt. vi. 13. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. Matt. xxviii. 18. And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Rom. xv. 19. Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God. Acts iv. 24. And when they heard that they lift up their voice to God with one accord, and said Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is. Rom. ix. 5. Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for evermore. Acts v. 3, 4. And Peter said, Ananias, why hath satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost......Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. 1 Thess. iii. 11, 12. Now God himself, and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you. 2 Cor. iii. 17. Now the Lord is that Spirit. SECTION IV. Matt. iii. 16, 17. And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: And, lo, a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. SECTION V. John iii, 16, 17. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. John xv. 26. But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me. SECTION VI. Gen. i. 1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 1 John v. 11, 12. And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son, He that hath the Son, hath life; and he that hath not the Son, hath not life. 1 Cor. vi. 11. And such were some of you but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. 2 Thess. ii. 13. God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth. : SECTION VII. Ephes. ii. 18. For through him we both have an access by one Spirit unto the Father. 1 Tim. iii. 16. And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. 1 Cor. ii. 10, 11. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searchest all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Coloss. ii. 2. That their hearts might |