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Rh earth, and he made the Word Incarnate, according to what is written in John, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word. All things were made by him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. And the Word was made Flesh, and dwelt among us." John i. 1, 3, 14. By descending therefore on this earth, and assuming the Humanity among the meanest and most sensual of the human kind, and particularly among the Jewish people, who without injustice may be considered as the vilest of the vile, the Lord in mercy has extended the benefits of redemption not only to the men of this earth, but to all the inhabitants of the universe. For in the deliverance wrought for the lowest, he at the same time included the highest; and thus both angels and men of every class and degree of life may participate in the blessings, which his divine love, wisdom, and power, have provided for them.

HAVING thus stated the chief doctrines of the true christian religion in as concise a manner as the different subjects would permit, all of which are most clearly founded on, and deducible from, the Holy Word, we shall bring this Compendium to a close by observing, that the whole system of christian theology resolves itself into two fundamental articles, which enter into, and render interesting to the highest degree, every truth of divine revelation. These are,

I. That there is only One God in One Divine Person, in whom nevertheless is a Divine Trinity of Father, Son. and Holy Spirit, similar to the human