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Because God has so revealed Himself in His word, that these three distinct Persons are the one, true, eternal God.

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord. Deut. 6, 4.

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Matth. 28, 19.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. 2 Cor. 13, 14.

Matth. 3, 16. 17. John 14, 16. 17. Eph. 4, 6. John 10, 30.

That the eternal Father of our Lord Je­sus Christ, who of nothing made heaven and earth, with all that in them is, who likewise upholds and governs the same by His eternal counsel and providence, is for the sake of Christ His Son my God and my Father; in whom I so trust, as to have no doubt that He