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36 But as without such authority it may possibly still be a matter of doubt with some readers, let the following passages be consulted, and the truth will be manifest. That our Lord Jesus Christ is the Father, is proved from Isa. ix. 6. John x. 30. Chap. xii. 45. Chap. xiv. 7, 9. Chap. xvi. 15. Chap. xvii. 10. Apoc. i. 8, 11, 17. Chap. xxii. 13. Besides a multitude of other passages, which declare that the Redeemer and Saviour of the world is no other than the great Jehovah.

That he is the Son, is universally acknowledged: nevertheless see Matt. i. 23. Chap. iii. 17. Luke i. 31, 32, 35. John i. 18; &c. &c. &c. And that he is the Holy Spirit, is proved from John vii. 39. Chap. xiv. 18. Chap. xvi. 14. Chap. xx. 22. Apoc. ii. 7, 11, 17, 29. Chap. xv. 4.

From all these passages, and numberless others, compared together, it is most manifest, that there is only One God in One Person, in whom is the Divine Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; and that our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is that One God.

WE have already treated of the being and unity of God, who, as the unsearchable fountain of all life, is called Jehovah, or I Am, in the Sacred Scriptures of the Old Testament. We have likewise seen, that the same Divine Being is not only the Creator of all worlds, but that in due time he became also the Redeemer and Saviour of mankind, by descending upon this earth, assuming our nature, and therein and thereby delivering his creatures from the overwhelming power of evil. It is further observable, that in