tions of the one substance of the Deity to itself. Zanchy says, a person is nothing but the Divine Essence, distinguished, and as it were individuated, by a certain personal property. Junius thinks, the persons are distinguished from the essence, in notion only, but really distinguished. Mr. Baxter says, he is past doubt, there is in God a Trinity of essential, formal, inadequate conceptions or primalities, viz. vital, active power, intellect and will. Otliers to avoid the inconvenience of defining, say in general, that there are three Differences; as Dr. Tillotson: Three Diversities; as Bishop Burnet: Three Somewhats; as Dr. Wallis: Three Subsistencies ; as Archbishop Secker. Mr. Cheynel, in his book of the Divine Trinity, says, We may best resemble all that difference which is between the essence of God, and the divine Subsistencies; by considering the transcendent affectionsof ens simpliciter and the attributes of God; who doth infinitely transcend not only a prædicamental substance, but a metaphysical entity; as the most metaphysical men, who are sound in the faith, do honestly confess ! UTRUM HORUM. p. 82, 83. DIRECTIONS RELATIVE TO THE OBJECT OF WORSHIP; FROM "AN EXHORTATION TO ALL CHRISTIAN PEOPLE TO ABSTAIN FROM TRINITARIAN WORSHIP." From the Scriptures. "Thou, when thou prayest, pray to thy Father, who is is in secret, and thy Father, who seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly. After this manner, therefore, pray ye. Our Father who art in heaven." Matt. vi. 6-9. Luke ix. 2. "Jesus saith, the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father seeketh such to worship him." John iv. 23. See also John xiv. 13, 14. xv. 16. xvi. 23. " I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, From the Book of Common "The Catholic faith is this, that we worship One God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity." Athanasian Creed. "Then likewise the minister shall say, Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; Answer, As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.-Morning Service. "Above all things, ye must give most humble and hearty Father, in the name of our should, at all times, and in all Lord Jesus Christ." Eph. v. 20. ii. 18. Rom. Col. i. 3, O Lord! Almighty and ever iii. 17. lasting God, who art one God, xv. 6. James See also iii. 9. 12. places, give thanks unto thee, not one only person, 2 stance. For that which we the glory the same we believe of believe of ther, of the Fa the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, without any difference "At that time Jesus answer ed and said, I thank thee, O on inequality." Upon the Feast of Trinity. "Religious worship is to be given to God the Father, the Father, Lord of heaven and Son, and the Holy Ghost; and earth, because thou bast hid to him alone." The Assem. these things from the wise and bly's Confes. of Faith. ch. 21. prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes; even so Fa ther, for so it seemed good in thy sight." 26. Luke x. 21. Matt. xi. 25, "And he fell on his face "The second part of prayer and prayed, saying, O my Fa- is adoration, and it contains ther, if it be possible let (1) A mention of his nature this cup pass from me: never- as God; and this includes his theless not as I will, but as most original properties and thou wilt." Matt. xxvi 39. perfections: his unity of es " And Jesus lift up his eyes and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me." John xi. 41. See Mark xiv. 36. Luke xxii. sence, that there is no other 42. xxiii. 34, 46. God besides him: his incon. ceivable subsistence in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; which mystery of the Trinity is a most proper object of our adoration and wonder, since it so much surpasses our understanding." - Watts's Guide to Prayer, p. 6. "Now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say, Father save me from this hour? but for this cause came I unto this hour. Father glorify thy name." John xii. 27, 28. "Holy Father, keep through thine own name, those whom thou hast given me." John xvii. 11. See also John xvii. 1, 3, 5, 13. xxiv, 25. And Acts iv. 24, &c. "Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort, who comforteth us in all our tribula. tions." 2 Cor. i. 3. See also Eph. i. 3. "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to his abundant mercy, hath begotten us again into a lively lope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead." 1 Pet, i. 3. tions of the one substance of the Deity to itself. Zanchy says, a person is nothing but the Divine Essence, distinguished, and as it were individuated, by a certain personal property. Junius thinks, the persons are distinguished from the essence, in notion only, but really distinguished. Mr. Baxter says, he is past doubt, there is in God a Trinity of essential, formal, inadequate conceptions or primalities, viz. vital, active power, intellect and will. Others to avoid the inconvenience of defining, say in general, that there are three Differences; as Dr. Tillotson: Three Diversities; as Bishop Burnet : Three Subsistencies; Secker. as Archbishop Mr. Cheynel, in his book of the Divine Trinity, says, We may best resemble all that difference which is between the essence of God, and the divine Subsistencies; by considering the transcendent affectionsof ens simpliciter and the attributes of God; who doth infinitely transcend not |