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'FATHER.

Ince the Doﬁrine of the Trinity, or
of three equal Perfons in one God,
is nor C as all confefs ) a Diéiate of

Nature or Reafon, but‘is lmowable
or» credible by means of Revelation only:

and ﬁnce all " authentick Revelations ac-’

knowledged by Proteﬁants are contained in
Holy Scripture; and ﬁnce the Proofs from
Scripture of the Godhead of the Holy
Ghoﬂ, are not direé’c and exprcfs, but con-

fequential, itfollows, that even upon fup- ‘

poﬁtion that he is in fome fenfe God, yet‘
he is a not to be worlhipped any orherwife,
than in the one Perfon of God,,or the Fa-
ther, becaufe there is neither Precept nor
Example of any Other Worlhip of him in

Holy Scripture; But the whole Current of ‘

Scripture is for the Worfhip of God under
that one Perfon of the Father, or God of Ijl
rael. Concerning the Worfhip of our Lord
Chrift I {hall {peak-afterward; :

Forvif the Holy Scripture does not teach

‘ us, bOth under what Names and Norions,

Appellations and Attributes, to worlhip
God,then it is nor a fufﬁcient and clear Rule

of Faith and Worfhip in all things neceﬂ'ary,

as thofe Names, NOtions, Appellations and
Attributes are) as all Prorefiants hold it is:
And if there be neither Precept nor Exam-
ple of worlhipping God under the exprefs

Name, Norion or Appellation of Holy
. Ghoﬂ or Spirit, as a Perfon .diﬁiné’t from

God the Father; but all Inﬁances run

.in a contrary Stream, then fuch Worlhip is
a humane Invention, introduced into the

Worl'hip of God, derogatory to his Honour,
(whofe Prerogative it is to appoint his own
Worlhip) and to the sufﬁciency and Clean»
nels of Scripture. ‘

For ﬁnce the Holy Scripture is (asIhave
faid) the only Revelation we have, that

"there is aHoly' Ghoﬂ, and what he is, it’s

altogether neceﬂ‘ary that we afcribe n0thing
to him, but' what is afcribed to him in that
Revelation.

But here perhaps it will be alien-ted, con-
trary to whatI deny, That though there is
no Precept for worlhipp‘ing God, under“ the
Name and Norion of Holy Ghoﬂ, as diﬂina“
from the Father, yet there are fome Texrs
of Scripture whence an Example of fuch
Worfhip or Invocation may be drawn. For
this they alledg, Math. 28. I 9. and 2 Cor.
13,14, In the ﬁrfi of thefe Texrs, the A-
poﬂles are {cut forth to baptize in [or into]
the Name of theHoly Ghoﬂ, as well as of
the Father and the .Son.

Anfw. I can fee no fhew of Adoration in
that Scripture: forafmuch as to be baptized
in, or into the Name of any One, and to be
baptized into One, is the fame thing,as the
Learned agree; and is manifeﬁ by compa-
ring Rom.6. ;. (where we read, Baptized in-
to [or unto] 7(2qu Cln‘iﬁ) with A6}: 2. 38.
Be Baptizedwery one of you intbe Name of 76f!“
Cloriﬂ‘. See the like ufe of thefe Phrafes,
Gal. 3. 27. with A625 8. 16. But the Ifrae-s
lites ( as the Apoﬁle Paul fays, t C or.Io.2.)
wereall Baptized into [or unto] Mofes, in the
Clam, “lid. in the Sea. By which is not to be

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' itcfeif. in a thoufandiplaees;

Chriﬂians, efpecial'ly with Papiﬁ's“; But to
go notfuuther. than the-Cafe in hand: If all
the _Wosrlhip due to GoalL upon‘any Account,
and which we" give to the Father" bé'c'aufei‘ihei

its); by, the Name 'oﬂthe Father; its-Eats;

due to the Holy Gholi? éxPreﬂy; manta-1k;

Ghoﬁ, as well as the Father, ’Becaofe, as the

tbanafimz Creed fays, We mﬂ'g‘z've them egg/ll
Glory; we-fhail. be obliged to: tranfprofe, add
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eyery time we ufe‘tl’re‘lsoid’s Pr‘a rer,‘ and in

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after that Pattern, inﬂ’ead' of O‘ZJR Father;
which» art- in Heaven, we muﬁ fay; Our Father,

Son, andHoly .Ghoﬂ, which are in Heaven;

and iuftead of Haﬂowe-d be TH)” Name, Haigf

lowed be- YOLl'R Name ’5» THF Kingdom cm‘e‘,

we muﬂ fay, inscoufeque‘uce‘of our "search;

ing, YOUR Kingdom come; and/{ohm
THY Will, but YOUR Will- be done; not
THINE is the Kingdom, but'YCiURS is the
Kingdom, am. So when we worl-h’ip, as the
Apoﬁlel’aul, Ephef. 1.3. wemuf’t so: fa
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the Names of Father, God,‘ Lord, (ﬁt. into
Father, Son, and Holy Gh‘ ii; That and Thee
into! 2‘s and: Tou,i.Tbirze int may, gee: -.Th’us
making Holy Scripture a m’oli uuihtelligible~
and abfurd. Book, 01' at Ieaﬁfﬁieh as the Pa-

pifi‘s would have it, and IuOthiug'leiis‘ than

what Preteﬁants hold it," the clear arid eer-
tain Revelation of the Mind-of God; and the

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tent of that Revelation; and we ought to
meafure the EXtetit of it hythe Rereiatiou
itfelf, for otherwife’ we would readin tun;
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‘ My,” {Ecouti Reafoz‘a why, I deny that the
Holy Ghoff, fu y’poﬁughimtto'be God, isto
be Wormitpsi,’ exarsﬂyrss the. Escher, bf
vi‘r‘ti‘ctsf.~duriissfasiissspsa this Suapoﬁisi-
0's;"is'dsis'inéfmmsiisﬁsﬂsﬁisn dwsbscsii
upon‘alllﬂalv {Wotﬁiggsrgsqwe mid of in
the igih'leg Fo'tyifohe [Holonhoi‘the-a Pet-s

‘16an tlieinof’t Hi 13 God,_E-hewas foftom
Eternity, and had; tom the—beginning 05th::
Creation an equal right of beng .FVQiiiii'Piied
ihﬂs‘éxpreis a manager as the, Kathe“; [or jello-
oak 3' some ﬁnd: to Footﬁeps oigany his}?
Wotﬂﬁgﬁvhereih the 'HQIE thﬂ was ~tii~
{iiﬁiii'yf iiiéitﬂﬁmisda be? ﬂame is Kiwis '
worilii‘pgﬂ - underfafuch Names,Deferi9tions-,
Appal'lattons {mo} Pronouns; as import ex»
pteﬂy one, ‘ﬁngular'_Peufoq or Perfonal God. ,
Afud b _ him theyPatriatehsgﬂPro hers axial:
Five; ici uﬁditﬂibti scissors: t is Cssassr
or.ttcavés;,1a¢natssts; assaiigthe coast
‘ Aim/dam} djfyma and; limit? 3."; ' andC'l‘triﬁiaus
uti'defrﬂdo‘ thf'e iFashe‘r ,of i'oiith-sord Iefus
Clitimaod; nor the Per'fon of the Biol )5 Ghoi‘t,
any otherwijfe than as implied; Yea and our
Lord} Jiefus ,himfelf,‘ wlieueVerzhe graft} .. or
W'erhi’pp‘ﬂ‘ .God', did' it under. the Names,
Notioﬁs and‘Dei'créi tious Whiei g'fggpiﬁy‘the.
Father, and M] £5? angular Numiaer, Gouge;

' ?uen“tly allg‘tlie‘Patriarch)...Prophets and

em until- Chtiﬂ, and all the Believers in
Chriftyaud Chtiﬂ" himfelf too, (which. is
Blafph‘emy to {u . ofe) erred in theirwors
lh‘ippihg God", ‘mgti’tihg hotexprefsimentiom
of the .HolyGhom if‘itlietia? good CQIIfEf
,e‘ncje’ from, the Holy Glioﬁ' his ‘ bei'ngjreueag
led to’. be a Pet'fdn of'GOdI, that we ought to
Worl’hip him diﬁiné‘t‘ly under that Name,
Or fome Other peculiar to him.a For it in-_
fers,‘ noc only that we may, but that we
muff {o worlhip him; {Or he ,that is equal-
1y God‘ as the Father, has, accordingstoour .
Reafoning, as muCh right as iii. to baWor-z
{hipp’d and invocated expreﬂy; and. cannot
be denied it by us‘ without Tranfgreﬂion.
But the Holy Ghoﬁ himfelf, the Infpires: of
Holy Scripture, ,doth never dif’cate any fuch
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\ly upon him, as negligent of the Glory of
God, even his own Self, and. the greateﬂ,

nor only Defeftivenefs, but Impioufnels-

{pardon the word) upon the Holy Wri-
tings, which never. teach the due and whole
Worfhip of God, but onlya part of it.

It is therefore to be held, that fuppoﬁng

the Holy Ghoﬁ to bea Perfon of God, he

was always worlhipp’d and invocated under
the Name of 7ebovah, the Lord, the Lord God
of Hoffa, and the like : And in the Times of
the New Covenant, under the Name of the
Father, IbeGod and Fotberof our Lord fefm
Cbriﬂ, ﬂeFatberof'Meroies, 8m. but never,
either under the Old or New-Covenant-
Times, by the Name of the Holy Gboﬂ, or
God the Holy Gboﬂ, or bleﬂid Spirit of God, or
any fuch Name as diflinguifhes him expreﬂy

' fromGod the Father: Therefore fuch wor-

lhipping of him now is utterly unlawful, as
reflecting Imperfeé’cion and Obfcurity upon
Holy Scripture, Error or Negligence upon all
the Holy Men,Patriarchs,Prophets 8: Apoﬂles
we read of inScripturesyeaCWhich isnOt to be
thought or laid, did nor the detection. of a
great Error enforce it) upon our Lord 132qu
the Pattern of Perfeﬁion, and upon the Holy
Gholl himfelﬂby whofe Infpiration theScrrp-
tures were written, and holy Men moved.
3. The Worﬂiip of the .Holy Choli, in
fuch an exprefs manner as diﬂinguil'h’d from
the Father, does naturally beget in us the
NOtion or Idea of two Perfons with two Ef-
fences, as fully as Peter and" Paul are two
Ellences: neither do I think it pollible to
avoid it, for I cannot make either the Fat-#-
ther, or the Holy Ghoﬂ, an Objeé‘t' of Wor-
fhip as the moi't High God, but I mull no.
tion each of them diﬁinéily as a Perfbn and
Ellence compleat, and then of neceﬂity I
form in my Mind two Ellences as well as two.
Perfons, or elfel worlhip the Elie—nee twice
under two different Perfons: But whether
the one or the other, I do exprelly wor-
fhip two moﬂ High Gods equal one to ‘the
Other, whilft I have two fuch Objects under
two different Names and Appellationsmhich

ﬁgnify its-differently as Father and nor Fa.
ther, but one equal to him.

And now that I have ﬁrew’d, there is no
Example, as well as no Precept, ,of wor~
ﬂripping or praying to the Holy Ghoﬁ by
that Name, or any Other Name or Appella-
tion, ﬁgnifying him as a Perfon diﬁiné’r from
the Father; and that fuch Worlhip is nor
to be juﬂiﬁed by any Confequence drawn
by our Reafoning from the Revelation of his
beingaPerfon of God; Yea, that it is un-
lawful fo todo, Iﬁrﬂ turn my felf to the ‘
Dili'enters,eand charge them with great In-
conﬁﬁency to themfelves and their own
Principles; for whilﬂ: they refufe to join in
the Liturgy and Ceremonies of the Church
of England, becaufe (fay they) there is
neither Precept nor Example in Scripture
for their a Liturgy or Ceremonies, and re.
jeét all the Reafons the Church-men draw
from Order and Decency, the Command of
Superiours in Matters of Ind'illereney, 89%“.
they themfelves do daily worfhip, and that
expreﬂy by Names and Appellations, which
infer different Idea’s and Notions, a Perfon
diﬂint‘t from the Father, the only true God,
without any Warrant of Scripture, either by
Precept, or f0 much as one Example;
nay, againﬁ the full Current of Scripture-
worlhip, with heinous reﬂeﬁion upon all
holy Worlhippers, yea, upon our Lord
Chril’t'and the Holy thoﬂ: himfelf, and the
unavoidable danger (in all the common
People at leafl )~ of worfhipping two Gods.
Thus you can no longer plead the Proce-
ﬂant Principle, that the Scriptures are a per;
feat, clear, and our only Rule of Faith and
Worlhip; and that nothing is lawful in the
Worlhip of God, but what he hath either
commanded or exempliﬁed. You mull not
call the Liturgy and Ceremonies, (9‘6. Will-
worlhip, whilll your {elves are Will-wor-
lhippers in the very Ellence, Object and-
Form of Worlhip. Inﬁead of one Perfon
which God commands you to worlhip, fay-
ing, Thole [bolt have no other Gods before ME,
you have in daily practice chang’d ME into
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mull not henceforth drawa Parallel between»

jerohoam’s worlhipping the God of mm by

Calves, and the Church of England worlhip— »

pingGod in confeerated Churches, Chap-
pels, Cathedrals, Prief‘ts. Garments,..by Al-
tars, Liturgies, ﬁnging Service, Litanies,
Bowings, Croﬂings, Holidays, Falls, Feaﬂs,
(no. becaufe all thefe, and a great deal
more, may be juﬂiﬁed better than you can
jullify worl-hipping God by thofe exprefs
Names and Defcriptions that make him plu-
ral, and not the God and Father of our Lord
Jefus Chril‘t only; and that without any
Authority, but merely of your own Heads.
And this unfcriptural Worlhip is fo frequent
with you, that you feldom make two Pray-
ers, but one or borh of them is concluded
with the Worlhip of the Holy Ghol‘t ex-
prefly, together with the Father and the

Son. Nay, you. are foiaddifted to this Wet-~-

ﬂiip of your own Invention, or rather Cu-.
ﬁom, that though there are many Forms

of Worlhip and Doxology in Scripture,

efpecially in the New Teﬂament, forNew-

Covenant Worlhippers, yet you feldom ,
make ufe of any. of them, but negleét them.» ,

all, preferring your Popilh Invention. before
them. .

_ Particularly youBaptifls, or Anabaptiﬁs,.-
do worthily labour in the vmdicaring—of

Baptifm to .thofe that are capable of it,
from. thofe that are .uncapable of it, whilﬂ.
in the mean time you follow the moﬁ cor-
rupt Tradition, of giving the Glory due to
the one Perfon of God only, to anorher Per.
fonas-his Equal...

0n the other hand, I crave leave to ad-
drefsmy {elf to the Church-men, tho
are f0 frequently braggingof the purity of

their Faith and. Worlhip) and put them.
alfo in mind of their dilhonouring,God 1n...

thisPoint, whilft every Morning they read
their Liturgy, they repeat Pope Damafm’s

' Doxology, at leafi feven, for the moﬁ part

eight or nine times, (emetimes fourteen or

ﬁfteen times. see.- Glen. he to the. teller. one

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touthe Son, and a the-Holy Ghoft .- Arit m.
on the Beginning, 8:43. For the Learned in"
Antiquities tell us, that this Doxology was

ﬁrl‘t devis’d to be the Cognizance of a

Fa'étion, and. did. produce tragical Riors

. and 'Tumults; then in the Year 376, it was ~

taken into the Church-Service by Bilhop
Damafur, who was-brought into that Oﬂice °
at Rome, by Tumult and Slaughter of above

one hundred Roman Citizens. Now is not:
this a high Pedigree of a Form of Wore

ﬂiip, that muftthrul‘tout, and be preferr’d.
before all thofe. excellent Doxologies and.
Thankfgivings in Holy Scripture, infpir’d by

the Holy Ghofl. Such are thefe 5

To the King Eternal, Immortal, Inoijihle, ther-
only wifeGoa’, he Honour and Glory ﬁrr ever. and ..
ever. Amen. 1 Tim. I. 17.

There is alike Defcription of God, I Tim. ..
6. 15, 16.-—-—-the hle/]ell and only Potentate,.,.
the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords; Who .
only hath Immortality, dwelling in the Light
which no Man can approach unto, whom no Man ,
hath feen, nor can fee; to whom heﬂonour and _
Power everlaﬁing. Amen. .

AnOther in fade, ver. 25.. To the only wiﬁ _.

God our. Saviour, heGlory and Majeﬁy, Domi-

nion and Power, hot‘hlnow and for ever. A».
men. .

.So ..Rom.-I6. 2.7. To Goal only. Wifi, he Glow.
ry, through 7efu/r Chrifi jhr ever.

See Gal. I. 5,. To whom [God and our Fa-
ther] he Glory for ever and ever. Amen.

And Ephef. 3.20, 21. New to himthat is
able to do. exceeding abundantly above all that we ~.
ash or think, according to the Power that ..
worketh in our, unto him he Glory in the Church

'hy Chrijl ﬁfths, throughout all Ages, World with-«

out end. Amen.
Phil. 4. 20. New untoGoel anal fourFather;
he Glory ﬂrr ever and ever. Amen.
1 Pet. 5. 10, 1 I. Ton-the Goal of all‘Grace,
who hath called us to his eternal Glory by Chrift
fie/tor to him he Glory and Dominion for ever. --
and ever. Amen.
2 Pet. 3. 18. To our Lord- and Saviour feﬁla
ChriﬁzheGle‘l heel? organelle em Amen- .

 

 

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Thankfgivings are commonly rendted to God

‘ through Jefus Chriﬁ.

Now, Reverend Sits, is it not unaccoun-
table; that aPerfon equalto this God and

Father, and Whmha's an equal. Right to" all;

Glory and Honour, fhould z'never be men):

tioned? And, is it notati-unaccountablegj
that a Church profeffing at mof’c ‘exaﬁ. Re-'

formation from Popifh Traditions, in Faith

and Worlhi , by the only Rule of Holy-
~ Scriptures; ould‘ thus' paflpably 'derogate

frmnScriuture, to "the high dilhonour-of all
fa’cred Perfonsand Things; and give your

Adverfaries the Romaniﬂs an Argument and '

Advantage, whereby they are able to de-
fend the very worli’ of their Superf‘titions
and lciola’tries, and fu‘bvert your only Rule
of Faith? If thefe Doxologies had not
been found in Scripture, but devifed by
fomc ”eminent Bifhop or Patriarch, you

would certainly have warned it a great '

difrefpeft to that Biﬂiop to paifs them by,
an‘cltakeone devifed by an ordinary weak
Man of no Reputation, (fuppoﬁng the Mat-
ter of it to have “been lawful); But what
is Pope Damafwx in compare with the Holy
Ghofi, or even with the Apoflles and Holy

'Penmen? You mui’i no'longer rejeéi the

I’iibpifh Won/hip of Saints and Angels, the Im-

gg's of'Cbri/f and his Marian; and other Saints-5

tbs Bread in ﬁ‘dtﬁtbﬂarztiation, Sec. becaufe
not found in Scripture, our Only Rule of
Faith and Worfhip; neither a .thoufand

Mﬂezi beGoai’, evver'i the .
Fmbemfonr- me échBri/i, Hie Fatbeaof;

wages, whilfi you: conﬂiantly every dayg.‘
and often in every/day repeat the Wet-{hip

. of another- Perfon expreﬂy, halides} and: in

diﬁinﬁiomfrom him that in the harem.
God; and together WM? >-liitm,.~wheteby you
caﬁ‘gteat Contemptuifiéoﬁ may Setiptute,~
asan imperfeéi andvdel‘i‘éﬁive-A‘Ru’le of Faith '
and Worfhip1 evenin‘the moﬁ Fundamen-~
tal‘ Point,~ the higheﬁ (Meet of Worfhip.
The Papiﬂ‘s are not wantingvof R‘eafonings;
Arguments,'-Con{'equenees, for what they,
behevé; and ’praﬁlii'e in Religionizt‘hut yeti
reieﬁ‘theni betaufe notfound‘in‘ animate“!
see what ydut ma learned Defendetifaysgi
in his' Difcoui'ﬁ "of the 'Idolia‘tty-‘of the‘
Church of Rom,~~ pag. 175;. 9. I6.” “ And
“' fo ( ﬁditb‘ be) for all particular Doéirints
‘ rejeéied" by us gag—«W6 therefote .rcfu'l'e.
“the“ belief of them, beeanfe not ceiig‘
‘- tained INQEEKONLY RutEfoF FAITH-:4
‘9 on this" ‘ae‘éount‘ vac-reject. the Pope’s-r Sui”
‘ premacy, Traiﬁiabﬂantiation, -"Infallibili‘-' ,.
‘ ty of t e prefen't Church in deli'vlering,‘

‘ Points of Faith, Purgatory, and other
“- Foppeties, -~impdsTJ_-upon the Belief‘of'
“*Chriﬁiam.‘ Thus far he; , " 1

But in contradiﬁion to this Principleg-you?‘
believe it acceptable to God the Father, to
wOrﬂiip expreﬂy another equal to him : you
can profefs to believe that unfcriptur'al, un-
intelligible and‘ damﬁing- Greeti- of your Saint
Athamﬁm, whereby you telamn all that do
not give-equal'GYOry to'the Holy GM?! as to
the Father; anti "confequently ymrfe‘liaa;
for ye Often-pray to, anti worfhip the Father
exprefly-without mention of the Holy Ghoii, ‘
nay, ye pray to the Father that he wouid
give-you the PM}? Ghoﬂ. ,

Thus far] I have (fifcourfed moﬁly upon
that Prozcﬁant Prineipie. named above; but
now I will fhew your, that that your Faith
and W'or‘iliipr is diree‘t'ly contrary to the
Precept: of Wotfhip in holy Seripture, and
that net one only, but allof them. - For‘all
the l’recepts as well as Examples concern-
ing the Werfhip of Goal", refpeéi him as
one nngulat Pei-fen, boch. in Elie-nee and

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Perfon; “for share an be. no al’eri'on with-
‘ou’tamEﬂ‘tnce, and oneA-lmightyvand m’oﬁ
wife Perfon is one m‘ol‘i High zGhe'l: All Pre-
ceptsof worlhipping that 'God {peak in the
ﬁngular _-nu"mber 'of'one fue‘h Potion, and
exclude every other eron Whatfoeve‘r;
endgtheréefore eVen the Perish oi the Holy
'Ghoﬁmonﬁdered as .a difii'mét 'Perfo'n from
the Father, and, {o 'expreft; for being ex-
;prelt 'w‘ith‘the Father, they make two Gods,
and then our Bleﬁetl Saviour eon-Id net
with Congruity to Truth and "Grammar,
-have ,expoundcd aha: Preceptof God by
.Mefts [leﬂitﬂmltﬁ’mhl‘he Lord thy God, and
Jere/e him] these; It iewritten, Ihon [halt wor-
fhip the Lord thy Gaol, dﬂd HIM only [halt
‘thonﬂr-ve, Mat. 4. 10.) for he that worlhips
the Father alone ex'preﬂyi, ‘worlhips the
Lord-his God; and he that worlhipsex-
“pron anotheraPe‘rftln heﬁdes him twithequal
gWor ’ip, 'worlh'ipsr no longer lti‘lE‘lOl‘d-“iﬁs
God, andqferve‘s hint'only,u in: he worlhips
the Lord his God and anotherytmd '~~ferv"es
TH E M «together 5 To our .‘Lor‘dh Precept
rand-Form of fPtayt-rm direas TtO'Uﬂe ﬁngular
Eeyore-45:1hereiﬂiewe‘dsabotve, e. 43.1 And
aheing asked, which -‘ ie ' the fiﬁf ﬂattenindment
.ofeellg? ﬁltrate/meted hint, \The'iﬁr/i'of all
the Commandments is, Hear O’HWCI, the Lord
our God it one Lord, [I or the Lord our-iGod
the Lord is one.] And thou-{halt loot Tthe‘Lo‘rd
thy God with all «thy Heart, antl’tw‘ith all thy
25M, . and. with. all thy 'Mintl,~.antl withmll thy
astregth; :Where he. makes the ‘Onenefs of
the yetfon «of .God the veryfground of tall
:thatyl‘idvcs Wot-{hip andzﬁervice which we
are able to perform, and which we camper-
ibrm to one Perfon only; Mar; 12. 29,30.
‘ with Dent. 6. 4, 5. I think I'need net in-
ﬁante in any more. Butyou elude all

""Divihe Precepts of ‘Wor-lhip, and make'
them of. none effeét by your Tradition; .

for, you have received a Litany from Pope
Gregory I. which teaches‘ you to pray, 0
holy, and ‘hleﬂed, and gloriotes Trinity, three

Perﬂtns and one God, have Mercy uponm. 0 .

God the Father of Heaven, O'Gool the Son, 0
God the Holy Ghoﬁ proceeding from the Father

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nnel‘the Son, have Mme-ton is. So you“

ohange the‘Lord our ‘God! his great Com:
mandment, repeated by the Mouth of our
Saviour, into the quite contrary, ”him only

‘«ii?E0 them, land thede that is one you‘make

three, and Terv’e- them, with equal’W‘orlhip.
And. inﬂeasi of that Doxology which our
Lord taught usro" form our Doxologies hy,
you have introduced this or the like “Con—
clu’ﬁon of Gregory and Other Popes in above

twenty Colle'ﬁs and "Prayers, ‘hamelyi-“ff
shiln [ Jeﬁis Chriﬁ] who. liveth and reigneth' ”
with thee ﬁnd the Holy 'Ghofi now and ever;

ﬁrﬁ *Co’lleét in Advent, and. in the third

‘Colleé‘t thnsé-u- 0 Lord feﬁte Chrifi --——- who
liveji and reigneﬂ with the, Father and the
Holy Spirit, ever one God, World without end.

Amen. _

,- Butefter all, it will‘he ~*urg’gd ,againﬁme,
that‘jout 1‘on jéfus reform thoﬁlhip‘pfd ex:
'pr‘elly togetheriviththe Father; and'if he;

[Why not alfo the Holy ‘Ghoﬂ‘? To which" I

an’fwer: I. That "there isa “far different
Conﬁderation ngChriﬂ and, of the Holy
'Ghttﬂ; for the Holy-Ghoﬁ has no other

“Contemporaries nae Worﬂiipydone to him,

but “thati’oY‘Gotl,=-‘3br a Peri/on that is God;

3 hutVJ'efus 'Ghriﬂ lhas fheTCOnﬁderation of
“the well-belorleel/Son of God, When; he has 4p-

pointed Heir - hftill‘ things, by; whoht eel/i9 he made

' the-Worldsgwhom he“ 'ﬂznhiiﬁ‘etl and [int into the

World; when, "hetenfe he humbled hiotfelf, and he-
omne obedient noto Death, "even “the ‘Death of
the 00qu hath highly exalted, and‘giotn
’hien wNmnenhoveeoery Nomathnt ht Eorin] the

”Name, of felon every 101!!thth how, and that .
every Tongue fhonltl tonﬂfs that feftto' Chri/i is

Lord, to the Glory of God the Father; but no
fuch thing Can“ be {aid or thought ' of the
Holy Ghdﬂ', who whatfoevet Worlhip is
paid to-him, it redounds ultimately to his

own Glory in Diﬂiné’tion from God the.
, Father,and in Equality with him. All the
exprels Worlhip to be exhibited to Chril’t, .
has this Ground and Foundation, namely, .
that the Father, even God, has given him;
that Power, Authority and 'DominiOn which .
makes him a ﬁt 'Objeé‘c of that .‘Worlhip,
' . and i

and the Glorythereof is not terminated in
him as in its utmofifcop‘e, but palies by
A and through him to the Father. Beth thefe
. Conﬁderations are clear and apparent in that
. Pallage to the Philippians, which I have men-
tioned, and (o in the Difcourfe of our- Lord
.himfelf, john 5. .for when the ‘Jews‘who
fonght to kill him, v. 18. did maliciouﬂy. 1n-
terpret hisfaying, that God was his Father,
to be a making himfelf equal with God,
he denies with a folemn Alfeveration, fay-
ing, Verily, verily, the Son can do nothing of
himﬂ’lf, hat what he ﬁeth the Father do; for
what things ﬁrever he doth, thefe alﬁ) doth the
Son likewiﬁ’. And how comes that to pafs?
.For the Father loveth the Son, and fheweth him
'«all things that him/elf doth, (ver. 20.) and
he will [here him greater Works than theﬁa, that
ye may marvel. It was fuch a lhewing which
proceeded from the Love of the Father;
and it was partly prefent, and partly future.
Form: the Father raijith the Dead, and quick-
neth them, even ﬁt the Son qnichneth whom he
will, ver. 21. This is one of thofe Works
which the Father fhews him. For the Fa—
ther jna’geth no Man, hat hath committed ad
‘j‘ndgment to the Son, that all Men fhoald ho-
nonr the Son even no they honour the Father:
To wit, as they honour the Father upon the
account of his judging; but dOth this Ho-
nour terminate in the Son? No, he that ho-
' nonreth not the Son, hononreth not the Father
that ﬂat him. That Honour which is given
to the Son, al'cends by him as lent to the
Father that fent him, ver.26. For an the Fa-
ther hath Li]? in himfelf, ﬂ) hath he given to the
Son to have Life in himfelf 5 and hath given him
Anthority to execute fledgment alﬁ), hecaaﬁ he
is the Son of Man, that is, he that was pro-
pheﬁed of in the Viﬁons of Daniel, where
we read, that one like the Son of Man
came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought
him near before him, and there were given him
Dominion,_and Glory, and 4 Kingdom, that all
People, Nation: and. Iangnages fhonld ferve
him, See. Dan. 7. 9, 1o, 13, 14. or beca‘ufe
he is fuch a Son of Man as humbles himfelf
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mol‘t ordinary Man: See phi-1.2.7, 8. Again,

in ver. go.pof this of fob. 5. I can of my
[Elf do nothing; as I hear, I jndg, and my fledg-
ment is jofl. Why, becaufe he is the molt
High God? No, but hecanﬁe I feeh not mine
own Will, hat the Will of the Father which hath
ﬁat me.
to a Man exalted by God, but by no means
to him that is himfelf God already. Can he
that is God the molt high he made Higher
than he is ? God may and ought to be celebra~
ted and praifed for thofe Excellencies that
are in him; but he can have no Addition

.to his natural and inherent Power, Autho-

rity and Glory. But the Apoi‘tle Peter alfo
tells the People in that famous Sermon,
Aﬁs 2. 36. -————Let all the Hoafe of Ifrael
know aﬂieredly, that God hath made that ﬂame
7th»: whom ye have cruciﬁed hoth Lord and
Chri/i. And the Apolile Panl tells us, Rom.
1'4. 9. For to this end Chri/i both died, and
rofe, and revived, that he might be Lord both
of the dead and living. Hence it is that in
the Viﬁons of the Revelation:, chap. 5. where
the twenty four Elders fall down before
the Lamb, and ﬁnga new Song, they exhibit
that Worfhip to him, they do it net upon
the account of his being the mall High

= God, but upon account of his Worthinefs as

a Man, laying, Then art worthyhhecanfé than
may? flain, and haﬁ redeemed its to God by thy
Blood eat of every 1' rihe, and Tongne, and Fee-
ple, and Nation, and ha]? made to: to oar God

' Kings and Prie/ie, ver. 9, 10. So by the

Angels, Animals, Elders , even thou«
lands of thoufands, Chril’t is celebrated
upon the fame account of his being the
Lamb that was ﬂain, faying, Worthy is the
Lamb that was (lain, to receive Power, and
Riches, and Wifdom, and Strength, and Hononr,
and Glory, and Bleﬂing, ver. 12, 13. i

This Obfervation of mine, touching the

.tliEerent Ground of the Worlhip of Chriﬂ

from that of the Worlhip of the Father, or
of the Holy Ghoﬂ (who are alway wor-
{hipp’d as Perfons of the molt High God)
is {0 ﬁrm, that] am perfwaded there is no
place of Scripture can be alledged of any

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Divine Excellency attributed to Chrif‘t, but
it will plainly appear to have been given
him bythe Father, out of his free Love, or
as a Reward of his Obedience. Thus in
Col. I. 46. where all things in Heaven and in
Earth [not Heaven and Earth] are (aid to
be created by Chrifl; he is {aid there to be,
The Image of the Iaviﬂble God, the F irﬁ-borrt of
every Creature, verf. 15. He forgave Sins,
but asthe Son of Man empowred by God ['0
to do, Mat. 9. 6, 7. And the Apoflles tell
" the High Prieﬁ and Council, laying, 7hr God
of our Father: has raiﬁed up ﬁfar, whom ye flew
and hanged on a Tree .- Him hath God exalted
with his right Hand, to be a Prince and a Sa-
viour, to give Repentance to Ifrael, and for-
gi'veaeﬁ of Sins, Afts 5. go, 3 I. Chrifi is to
be believed on, but {0, as that he who believeth
on him, believeth not on him, but on another 5 to
wit, on him that feat him, John 12. 44. And
fo, that by and throagh him we believe in God,
who raiﬁd him from the Dead, and gave him
Glory, 1 Pet.- 1. 2!. He hath the Name of
Emmanuel (God with us) given to him; yet
he is ('0 a God, that when he is {0 called, he
alfo is {aid to have a God who anointed
him, Heb. 1. 8, 9. He is faid to be the Fir/t
and the Laﬁ, Rev. 1. 17. but {0 as he that
liveth and was dead, ver. 18. He hath the
Name of The Lord our Righteotjizefi, Jet. 2 3.
5, 6. (if at leaﬂ that Appellation dOth not
agree to 1/?an mentioned before) but how-
ever it is common to him ’with Ifrael, Jer.
33. 16. God only fearcheth the Heart pri-
marily, and of himfelt; but he can give to
Others an Ability to fearch the Heart, as to
Elifha, 2Kings 8. 12. So Chriﬂ faith, I am
he which ﬂareheth the Reins and Heart .- But he
fpeaketh there of a Revelation which God
gave unto him, and of himfelf as executing
Judgment upon Adulterers, and giving to
every one a Reward according to his Works.
But it is certain that Chriﬂ as a Man is
Judg,‘ as Iobferv’d before from fohn 5. 27.
And the Apoﬁle Patel faith, That God [hall
judg the World in Righteovﬁteﬁ, by that
MAN when he bate emailed, Aﬁs 17.
3 I. '

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My Concluﬁon from all is, That all the
Worlhip that is or ought to be exhibited to
Chrifi, according to Holy Scripture, is con-
ferr’d upon him as a Man, Mediator between
God and Men 5 and that neither to 'Him nor
to the Holy Ghoi‘t, there ever was any
Worlhip given under any exprefs Names,
Appellations or Defcriptions, as Perfonso‘f
God diliinét from God the Father. But,
fuppoﬁng them to have been from Eternity
fuchPerfons, they were always worlhipp’d
as implied in God the Father; and confe-
quently the Argument in the ObjeEtion, for
the Worlhip of the Holy Spirit expreﬂy,
becaufe Chrift is worlhipp’d expreﬂy, is of
no force.

My fecond Anfwer to the fame Objet’tion
is this: I obferved above, that Other Per-
fons are fometimes joined with God the
Father, as Objeé‘ts of fome great Work a-
{cribed, or fome Honour given by Men,
when yet that Work or Honour refpeﬁs Al-
mighty God in one manner, and thofe Other
Perfons in another manner; as in the Ifrae-
lites believing in the Lord and in Mojis; the
People fearing the Lord and Samuel 5 Gi-.
dean’s Army, crying, The Sword of the Lord,
and of Gideon. I now add I Car. 29. 2o.-
where it is faid, All the Congregation bleﬂéd
the Lord God of their Fathers, and bowed down
their Heads, and worfhipped the Lord and the

>King. So it is when Chrifl is worlhipped

with the Father, as Rev. 5. 13. he is diffe-
renced (as Ilhewed) from him that ﬁtteth
upon the Throne, by the Appellation of
the Lamb that was flain, and had redeemed etc
to God by his Blood. But as for the Holy
Ghoﬂ, as he is not conﬁdered in the Adora-
tion given to him under any orher Norion
than of God, or a Perfon of God, (0, your
Liturgy refpeﬁs him in the fame manner,
and in coequality with God the Father; nor
as Chriﬂ, who received from the Bounty of
his Father, that Power for which he is to be
honoured and obeyed. Thus the eleven Dif-
tipler, after his .Refurreaion, and at his de-
parture from them, worfhipped him. Matth. ,
28. I7. Arid feftes tame, and fpahe ante them,

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jhylreg, All Power 'z'e giver: lento me in Heaven
and let Earth: Go ye THEREFORE and
teach'all Nations, hoptizlog them in the Name of
the Father, and of the Sort, and of the Holy
Ghaﬂ. This Scripture is chieﬂy urged as a

Proof of _ three equal Almighty and Ado~ .

table Perfons in God :- But theinequality of
the Son to the Father is mofi evident, in
that the Son faithimmediately before, That!
all Power was given to him; and lays the
Authority of this great and extenﬁve Com-
miﬂion of fo making Difciples, baptizing
them, upon that Donation: which is the
more obfervable, becaufe it is the cuﬂo‘m of
all Princes, built upon moii weighty Reafon,
that when they fend out extraordinary Em-
bailadors, they enforce their Authority with
the bell: and h-igheﬁ of their Titles and.
Powers : confequently this, of having all

Power given to him, was our ‘ Lord Jefus’s ‘

highel’t Title. And then it’s prepoiierous to
imagine, that the Holy Gh'oﬂ who is men-
tion’d after him, fhould have a higher Ti-
tie, to wit, of a perfonal God: Butif he
have not that, you will acknowledg that no
Adoration is due to him. '

And now I know how {irong a Prejudice
bath the Church-men and Dilienters in gene.
ra-l have againfi this Difcourfe : Soil‘rong,
that it may be doubted, whether many of
them will give it the reading; and of thofe
that will, very few will take any conﬁdetae

tio-n of the Reafons I have alledg‘dagairlﬂ ,

this inveterate pra<.°t.i-ce of worlhipping ex-
preﬂy "the Holy Ghoﬁ :, And of t‘hofe few, it
will be as hard to ﬁnd One that will give
my Arguments their due weight, as it is to
ﬁnd a'Papifi that will be convmeed of the
Abfurditie‘s of Traufubﬂantiation, Or the
Diﬂion‘our done to God in worlltipoing the
Virgin Mary, and other Saints, and their
dead images. 80 lorhis every Ghetto judg
himfelf to have been in an Error, efpeciali‘y
in fo grofs an one as is the religious Wor-
lhip-of a falfe Objeéta and more yet, when

we have the concurrence ofthe Multitude
of Learned and Unleamed on our i-ﬁde..
But thofe that will. be {metre ,m the iiudy

of Religion, (as all muff that {hall enter in-
to Life) ought to conﬁder that many Cora
ruptions crept into the Chrii‘tian Church
very early, as every one that is but a little
acquainted with Antiquity, knows. And the
fourth Council of Carthagemhich‘ was cele-
brated about the end of the fourth Centu-
ry, feems'to‘ have judg’d this worl'hipping
of the Holy Ghofi an Innovation,"when it‘
decreed thus; Cam ael altare aﬂﬁlter, &c.
Which may, be Englilhed', In the Church let
Prayer he mole to Gaol by only the Name of the
Father. And there are not wanting Learned
AuthOrs who tell us, It was feveral hundreds
of Years before the Publick Prayers had in,
them any Prayer to the Holy Ghoii: Of
which thing the Commentators on the Of-
ﬁces and Rituals of the Church, give this
remarkable Reafon, Role 5'. Spirltroe, Betah'fe:
the Holy Splrito’s the Gift, not the Giver. And
Ereforros and Others ob‘ferve, that St. Hilary,
who wr-ore twelve Books of the Trinity,
never call’d the Holy Ghoﬂ Goof, never faid
that he was to be worlhip‘ped, but only to
beobtain‘d. And Dr. Sparks on the Litur-
gy acknowledges, that the Dostology fo of-
ten reiterated in the Common Prayer, did
formerly run thus, Glory he to the Father,
through the-Sort, and by the Holy Gho/t. We
worfhlp C fays ‘Ori‘gen, contra 'Celfum) the one
only God, and his one only Sort, and Word and
Simile'teede, with merotrrroﬂ Sepplt'mtloresaod Ho- .
more, hre'regiog oar ”Prayers to the God of all
things, through he}: only begotten Son. Here’s no
mention of the Holy ‘Ghoii. .
If Nodal) and Ahl‘hte were devoured by Fire
from the Lord, for offering ﬂrange Fire, be-
fore ‘him which he commanded them not 5.
who {hall 'noc dread to worfhip even anorher
Almighty P‘erfon equal to him, which he has
fo ﬁrift’ly forbidden ? The ‘Times of igno-
rance God winks at; but when his Mind is
clearly made known, then he commands-all
Men every where to repent.
I're'memberi'that a moii‘t eminentand pi-
ous Conﬁrm/i Preacher of Londorzﬁwhofe Fu;
nerals were ‘worth‘ily folemniz’d with Tears
and Elegies) about thirty Years ago,did,up';m‘
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the account of the Reﬁeé‘tion upon the Holy
Scriptures, and the Scandal given to‘ fome of "
his Heaters, by that Dorrologyl ha’ve‘been
{peaking of, did, I fay, forbear to ugfe it as
long as he lived. A rare Example! .‘Buthow

contrary is the Spirit that now reigns among

our Clergy, who make ufe of this'D‘OXOlog'y‘
as the very Mark of Orthodoxy; and will
at no time forbear it, efpecially if they find
any Perfon in the Congregation that is of‘.
fended with it. ‘ .

.. You ought to remember, the Popilh Er-'
rors had prevail’d long, when the Refor-
mers'began; yea, fome of them longer
than your Adoration of the Holy Ghoﬂz‘
And itwas eﬁeem’d as horrid an Herefy‘to
deny the Adoration of the Boll, as of the
Holy Ghoﬁ; and thofe that reform’d in that
Point, were as few in Number as we that
reform in this. Why fhould you think
you have reform’d all the Errors of {o

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' corrupt a Church, or that herAmiChriflia'v

 

nifm conﬁl’ts only in thofe things that you,
have reforde? Remember, that the melt '
High God proclaims himfelf jealous in no
Commandment but that of his VVOl‘lhlP;
and try-again whether [yougive him no cattle
to be {0: See if you can ‘fatisfyyonr (Zeno,
fciences in, thefe Adoration“ he {0 kind"
and Chriﬁiah, ,as to inform us how we may
fatisfy ours. If you cannot fatisfy .us who

, are ready to receive Satisfaﬁion, then you

ought to aﬁllow our Dillent and Separation.
from your Worlhip. In the mean time it
will be our Duty to. profefs " our Thankfulnelé
to God through Chriﬂ, who has bellowed
fo great -a Beneﬁt upon us, as .to deliver us
from to great an Error, whereby we were
confounded in the Worlhip of God, and in
reading and underﬂanding of the Holy Scrip-
tunes. .. 2.1‘0'thou God and Father, firengthen,.
us to walk worthy of [0 great a Bleﬂingl

 

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Avi’ng fpoken of the Llulawfulnefs,
and confequently the Danger of
worlhipping the Holy Ghoﬁ ex-
preﬂy, it may not be unfeafonable to repeat
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l/Vhothtr thelFaith and War/hip of .

Three Almighty and only Wife
Perfohs, or of one only, to wit,
The God and Father of our Lord
jefm Chrz'jl, he moﬁ dangerous
to the Soul: of 114m .9

The Trinitarians and Unitarians agree,
that there is but one God moﬂ High :.. they
both agree that the God and Father. of our
Lord jefus Chriﬁ, is that molt High God.
They differ in this, that Jefus before he was
a Man, and from Eternity, and alfo the
Holy Ghofi, as diﬁinﬁ Perfons from God
the Father, were and are each of them as

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as perfeé’tly God mof’t High, as the Father;
fo that each of them is Almighty, Eternal,
All-knowing, only Wife, only Good, Inﬁw

, nite, the. equal to the Father. The Trini‘ .

tarians allert thefe things, the. Unitarians
deny them.

The @efiion hereupon is, Which of
thefe Parties are in the moﬁ dangerous Er».-
ror, fup’poﬁng them to be in Error, now the
one, now the Other?

If the Trinitarians err, they worlhip two
Perfons in God equal to one. who is undoubu
edly God; that is, they worlhip three Al-
mighty and only Wife Perfons, which are noe-
diﬁinguifhahle (efpecially in Worlhip)from
three molt High Gods. ~

If the Unitarians. err, they. avoid that
Error ofworlhipping three Perfons, which
they cannot. diﬂinguifh from three Gods;
but their Error lies in holding fo {iriélly to
the Onenefs of God, as well in Perfon as
EﬂEnce, that they do not acknowledg be-

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ﬁdes thatOne,two more Perfons to be equally .

God, as Well as that One, whom both Par-
tiesagree tobe (‘0: that is, they err‘in noc
_worfhipping two unnecellary Perfons in
God, but holding that the God and Father

of Chriﬁ is God alone, only Neceﬂ'ary and~

All4fuﬂ‘icient. ,

11f the Trinitarians err, they err againfi
the common Reafon of Mankind, and molt
plain and exprefs Scriptures, which allert
that God is One, or that there is but one
moﬂ High God, or God of Gods, and

throughout fpeak of him as of one only‘
Perfon. If the Unitarians err, they err,

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againﬂ the doubtful Senfe of fome obfeurei
Texcs, whichvare either variouﬂy read in
the Hebrew and Greek, or not rightly tran-
ﬂated, or which fairly'admit of another In-;
terpretjation conﬁﬁent with the Unity of the]
Perfon of God; , ‘ -

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In Than, the Queflion is, Whether the

Term God includes only one Perfon, or three 7

Perfons? One Almighty Perfon, or three
difiinec Almighty Perfonsi And whether

the former or the latter is the more'dange-_ a
rons Error, which {cover 1s found an EPA

tor?

Mat. 2;. 24. Te blind Guides, which ﬁrain at 4 GM, and fwallowa Camel.

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