proper office '. They are also declared to be sources of distinct blessings to the Church; the Apostle prays, that " the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God the Father, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, may be with us allk.]
3. Each of these persons is God, without any dif- ference or inequality —
[We shall not occupy any time with proving the Godhead of the Father; but, taking that for granted, shall establish the Godhead of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.
To each of these belong the same names as unto the Father. Is the Father God? so is the Word1, (as Christ is called in the text). He is " Emmanuel, God with usm," God manifest in the flesh", the mighty God0, God over all, blessed for evermore11. To Him is also given the incommunicable name, Jehovah; for we are to call him, " Jehovah our Righteous- ness*1." To the Holy Spirit also these names belong. Ana- nias, in lying unto the Holy Ghost, lied unto Godr. And we, in being the temples of the Holy Ghost, are the temples of Gods. The words also which were confessedly spoken by Jehovah to the Prophet Isaiah*, are quoted by St. Paul as spoken by the Holy Ghost".
To each of these the same attributes also are ascribed as characterize the Father. Is the Father eternal, omnipresent,
omniscient, almighty? So is the Sonx and so is the
Holy Ghost y ]
What now is the conclusion to be drawn from these premises, but that which is asserted in the text, that "there are Three that bear record in heaven : and that those Three are One2?"
1 1 Pet. i. 2. k 2 Cor. xiii. 14. > John i. 1.
m Matt. i. 23. n 1 Tim. iii. 16. ° Isai. ix. 6.
p Rom. ix. 5. i Jer. xxiii. 6. r Acts v. 3, 4.
s 1 Cor. iii. 16. l Isai. vi. 9, 10. u Acts xxviii. 25.
x Mic. v. 2. and Heb. xiii. 8. Matt, xviii. 20. and xxviii. 20. John ii. 25. and xxi. 17. John i. 3. and Matt, xxviii. 18.
y Heb. ix. 14. Ps. cxxxix. 7, 8. 1 Cor. ii. 10. Gen. i. 2. and Job xxvi. 13.
z Hence we see how properly we are taught to express our belief of this doctrine in the Athanasian Creed : " We worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity ; neither confounding the persons, nor dividing the substance ; for there is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost : but the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one, the glory equal, the majesty co-eternal ... So that in all things the Unity in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity, is to be worshipped."