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 EXHORTATIOΝ ΤΟ 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 See also Ps. 19. long metre, ver. 5. 6. Ps. 45, 100, 110, 118, &c. "God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, bless, preserve and keep you." Matrimony. WOLZOGENIUS'S ARGUMENTS FROM THE SCRIPTURES IN PROOF THAT CHRIST IS NOT THE GREAT GOD. 1st. That Christ is not the great God is shewn from the circumstance that in innumerable places of the Scriptures he is clearly distinguished from the great God. As when he is called the Son of God, the word of God, the image of God, the bread which descended from heaven ; and infinite other phrases of that kind are used concerning him. Therefore he cannot be the great God himself from whom he is thus distinguished. Matt. iii. 17. "And lo, a voice from heaven saying, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased." 2. Because, Christ is in many places called the Son of God. Whence it is " 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. "We must give honour to three persons in the godhead distinctly to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost." Henry's Method of Prayer. "Thou art the king of glo. ry, O Christ. Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father." "We therefore pray thee to help thy servants, whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious blood. Make them to be numbered with thy saints in glory everlasting." Te Deum. "-O God the Son, redeemer of the world, have mercy upon us miserable sinners. "According to the will of God, the Father, to whom be glory for ever and ever." Gal. i. 4, 5. "Now unto God, even our Father, be glory for ever and ever." Phil. iv. 10. "Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever." 1 Tim. i. 17. See also Mark vi. 13. Luke ii. xiv. Rom. i. 25. xi. 33, 36. xvi. 25, 27. 2 Cor. xi. 31. Eph. iii. 20, 21. 1 Tim. vi. 14, 15, 16. 1 Pet. v. 10, 11. Jude xxiv. 25. Rev. iv. 8, 11. vii. 11, 12. " Grace be to you and peace from God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ." Rom. i. 7. "Grace, mercy, and peace, from God, the Father, and Je. sus Christ our Lord." 1 Tim. 1..2. "Grace be with you, mercy and peace from God the Fa. ther, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love." 2 John iii. "O God the Holy Ghost, proceeding from the Father and the Son, have mercy upon us miserable sinners. "O holy, blessed and glo. rious Trinity, three persons and one God, have mercy upon us miserable sinners. "Whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood. By the mystery of the holy incarnation; by thy holy na. tivity and circumcision; by thy baptism, fasting and tempta. tion; by thy agony and bloody sweat; by thy cross and passion; by thy precious death and burial; by thy glorious re. surrection and ascension; and by the coming of the Holy Ghost. "Son of God we beseech thee to hear us. "O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. O Christ hear us. Lord have mercy upon us. upon us. upon us. Christ have mercy Lord have mercy From our enemies defend us O Christ. O Son of David have mercy upon us. Graciously hear us, O Christ; graciously hear us, O Lord Christ." Litany. "Grace be unto you, and peace from him who is, and who was, and who is to come; and from the seven spirits, who are before the throne-and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first. begotten from the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth." Rev. i. 4, 5. See also Rom. xvi. 20, 24.1 Cor. i. 3. 2 Cor. i. 2. xiii. 14. Gal. i. 3. vi. 18. vi. 23, 24. Phil. 23. Col. i. 2. Thess. i. 1. iii. 11, 12. 23, 28. 2 Thess. i. 2. 16, 17. iii. 5, 16, 18. 2 Tim. i. 2, 18. iv. 22. Titus i. 4. iii. 15. Philem. iii. 25. Heb. xiii. 20, 25. 1 Pet. i. 2. v. 10, 14. 2 Pet. i. 2. Jude ii. Rev. xxii. 21. Eph. i. 2. i. 2. iv. 18. iv. 1 v. ii. : "For thou only art holy, thou only art the Lord: thou only, O Christ, with the Holy Ghost, art most high in the glory of God the Father." Communion Service. " Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, and our God in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, be honour and glory, dominion and praise, henceforth and for ever. men." Henry on Prayer. "-Through Jesus Christ A our Lord; to whom with thee, O Father, and thine Holy Spirit, be everlasting praises." Doddridge. "Jesus, my God, thy blood alone, Hath power sufficient to atone." Watts, Ps. 51. 2nd. pt. L. M. ver. 6. "To God the Father, God the Son, AndGod the Spirit, three in one, Be honour, praise, and glory given, By all on earth and all in hea ven." Watts's Doxology. |