and is no lie. But I must break off, and go to our gates, where there are things new and old, which are laid up for the king's beloved, that a portion of meat in due season may be given to the household. Adieu.

Yours in him,

W. HUNTINGTON, S. S.

LETTER VI.

TO THE REV. J. JENKINS, LEWES,
SUSSEX.

Beloved in the Lord,

YOURS came to hand; and I am glad that the subject meets with your approbation, as my mind is still employed in this glorious mystery. I concluded my last with our abiding in the Son and in the Father; and likewise in the anointing, which is true, and is no lie. And shall proceed, and begin this with the apostolic benediction: "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of

God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with us," is of the same import. Now from all these plain passages of scripture, which I have quoted, three divine persons appear in the one God, and no more: not one can be left out, nor can one be added.

But the adversaries to the Trinity object, because the express word Trinity is not mentioned in the Bible but it is not the word that they hate and fight against, but the doctrine. We know that two is a couple, or a pair; three is a trinity, and four a quarternity: and "there are three that bear record in heaven," and no more, "and these three are one:" not three names and one person, but three distinct persons in one undivided essence. So likewise they object to the word satisfaction by the sacrifice of Christ; because the express word is not mentioned. But the thing is to be found in the Bible. God is called a creditor, Luke vii. 41, and poor sinners are debtors, to fulfil the whole law, on pain of eternal death; and he that offends in one point is guilty of all;" and should he die in this state, into the

prison of hell he must go; for, if we die in our sins, where Christ is we cannot come and therefore cannot come out of prison till the very last mite is paid; and, as lying in jail cannot pay debts, there can be no hope of a jaildelivery. Exposed to this, and threatened with it are all men while in their sins. In this state Christ found us when he took our nature, and was made of a woman, and made under the law;" which law he obeyed, and his obedience is placed to our account for righteousness; our sins he took, and bore them in his own body on the tree and was made a curse for us, and died in our room; the just for the unjust, and so redeemed us from the curse,' 22 and thus fulfilled all righteousness, with which our creditor is well pleased; and by the blood of his covenant he sends forth his elect prisoners out of the pit, declaring himself faithful and just in forgiving our sins, and in cleansing us from all unrighteousness. And this is real satisfaction made for sin, for the creditor is well-pleased with it; and to be well pleased with the payment is to

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be satisfied with it. And, as these things are found, we hold the words which well express them; and it pleases God, by the foolishness of preaching these things, to save all those who believe in them. And, on the other hand, we find many things advanced by those who are opposite to us, which sound as badly in our ears as the words person, trinity, and satisfaction, do in theirs. Some tell us that Christ was only an instrument in the creation, or a creating instrument. sound worse in the ears of a true lover of Christ than this; it is not common sense. We know that instruments are used by mechanics and builders, to fit and prepare materials for the purpose the artist or builder intends them; but to tell a man that such a mechanic has finished such a curious machine, and such a building is erected, to be the property of the tools that were used in the work, and for the praise and glory of them, would appear madness. So to talk of a creating instrument, or an instrument possessing creating power to make all things out of nothing, are such things as

no man in his senses can believe. "For by him were all things created that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him and he is before all things, and by him all things consist," Col. i.16, 17. He is here declared to be before all things; of course long before this creating instrument could be invented, or brought forth. "All things were created by him and for him;" created by his own power, and for his own glory and use; "and by him all things consist," or are preserved in their existence. Now this glorious Creator cannot be an instrument, but he must be God and to this the Father bears witness-"But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. And thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth;

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