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us, but also where he is nanied, thgether with the 

 Father atid the Sou. Insomuch that he alone is ex- 

 pressly stiled Holy, wherever the Three Persons are 

 expressly named together in scripture. 



The word Holy in those places cannot be added, IB 

 opposition to the Father and the Son ; nor as exclu- 

 sive of them ; because they are both absolutely holy, 

 as well as the Spirit ; so that they naturally tead us 

 into a belief, that his is the same holiness with that of 

 the Father and the Son, namely, the intrinsic holiaess 

 of Jehovah, the Most High, the Supreme God. To 

 this if we add, that he is called, The Spirit of 

 Holiness, the Spirit oj Glory, the Eternal Spirit," 

 and very often, The Spirit of God; as particularly at 

 the baptism of Christ, where he was personally dis- 

 tinguished from the Father, even in a visible appear- 

 ance. We must have our reason strangely amused 

 by subtlety and criticism, and be turned quite out of 

 the plain Way of thinking, before we can understand 

 these revelations to mean any thing else, than that he 

 Is God, equal with the Father. 



The sum is this. Since both reason and revelation 

 shew, that there is but one God, we can own and 

 worship but one. And since that one God is set 

 forth to us in scripture, under three distinct relations, 

 and accordingly represented by distinct personal 

 names, and characters, and operations and offices : 

 therefore we worship but one God, with this dis- 

 tinction of his own making, not of ours. 

 . It is said, Thou s halt. worship the Lord thy God } and 



