image of God created he him." There are many such texts; and hence there appears to be a plurality of persons in the Godhead. To prove the Deity or Godhead of the Son, we have the following (among a most numerous list of texts, in both the Old and New Testaments) St. John, c. 1, v. 1, 2, 3, "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; all things were made by him, and without him nothing was made that was made." And in every place where the Word is mentioned in Scripture, it always means the Son of God; therefore we have a proof that the Son of God assisted in the creation; consequently, that he created, and no being can create but God. That the Holy Spirit, or Holy Ghost, (Ghost means Spirit,) assisted also in the creation, we are assured by the following, with many other texts:-"And the SPIRIT of God moved upon the face of the waters."-Gen. c. 1, v. 2.

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By his SPIRIT hath he garnished the hea

vens."-Job. c. 26. v. 13.

"The SPIRIT of GOD hath made me-the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.”—Job. c. 33, v. 4. These prove that the Holy Spirit also assisted in the creation, and created; and, as none but God can create, the Holy Spirit therefore is God. I will mention one or two texts more, relative to the Deity of the Son and the Holy Spirit. The Son is mentioned (in the Revelations of St. John, c. 1, v. 17, 18,) as thus speaking-"I am the first and the last;"-" I am he that liveth and was dead, and I am alive for evermore, Amen: and have the keys of death and hell." And again, John, c. 6, v. 40 and 45, "I will raise him (the believer) up at the last day." Now none but God can be the first and last; and possess the keys of death and hell, which means the power of giving life and casting into hell; and none but God can raise a man from the dead. Again, the name by which our Saviour is called in the New Testament " Emmanuel," means "GOD with us."-St. Mark, c. 1, v. 23. Then

all men are commanded "to bow the knee at the name of Jesus," which means to worship him; and to worship any being but God is contrary to this, and the second, commandment-Joshua worshipped the "Captain of the Host of the Lord," when he appeared unto him, and he forbade him not; which proved he was God, (the Word)-for when St. John attempted to worship the angel, he forbade him ; worship being due to God only. One more"Being in the form of God, he (the Son) thought it not robbery to be equal with God." -Ph. c. 2, v. 6. Lying against the Holy Ghost is, in scripture, called “lying against GOD:" and our Saviour tells us, that, although sin against the father and son shall, upon repentance, be forgiven, the sin against the Holy Ghost shall never be forgiven if, then, the Holy Ghost were not God, would not this be a strange inconsistency? The Holy Ghost is also called the "Spirit of God.”—Matt. 4, c. 3, v. 16, 17.

That the Father is God no one has

presumed to doubt, though some have cavilled at the Deity of the Son; but that there are three persons in the Godhead, the following texts farther testify, "For there be three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are ONE."-1 John, c. 5, v.7. Again, "Go ye and teach all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father, and of the SON, and of the Holy GHOST."---Matt. c. 28, v. 19; which is including the three persons of the Trinity in one Godhead; because the baptism was to be administered in the three names jointly, as one God or Deity. Then, "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost be with you all, now and for evermore.---2 Cor. c. 13, v. 14. The Rev. T. H. Horne, (in his Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity,) says, "The manner in which Christ and the Holy Spirit are mentioned here, implies that they are Persons; for none but persons can confer grace, love, or fellow

ship."* We are not, in our thoughts, to render the word person, in the same sense as when we apply it to a human being; but as a being, having essential existence, and existing in and by itself, because we cannot apply the notion or idea of form to the Father, whom "no man hath seen,” and whom "no man can see and live." It is true that we find accounts in scripture of God's talking face to face with Adam, Abram, Moses, &c. and yet they lived; but this has always been considered as only referable to God the Son. The Son, when he came upon earth, took upon him the form of man, and therefore, in that case, was a person, in the common acceptation of the word; but that was only in regard of his human nature. The Holy Ghost has appeared to man in no other form than that of a dove,

* See also Dr. Waterland and Bishop Horne's Discourses on the Trinity; the Rev. W. Jones, of Nayland's Catholic Doctrine of the Trinity; the Rev. T. Horne, on the Trinity, &c.