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 Somewhats; as Dr. Wallis: 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 affections of 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 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 Commun Prayer, &c. "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 of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named." Eph. iii. 14, 15. "Giving thanks always, for all things unto God, even the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ." Eph. v. 20. See also ii. 18. Rom. XV. 6. Col. i. 3, 12. iii. 17. James iii. 9. 1 Pet. i. 17. "At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou bast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes; even so Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight." Matt. xi. 25, 26. Luke x. 21. "And he fell on his face and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt." Matt. xxvi 39. thanks to God the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, for the redemption of the world, &c." Communion Service. "It is very meet, right, and our bounden duty, that we should, at all times, and in all places, give thanks unto thee, O Lord! Almighty and everlasting God, who art one God, our Lord; not one only person, but three persons, in one substance. For that which we believe of the glory of the Fa ther, the same we believe of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, without any difference on inequality." Upon the Feast of Trinity. "Religious worship is to be given to God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and to him alone." The Assem. bly's Confes. of Faith. ch. 21. "The second part of prayer is adoration, and it contains (1) A mention of his nature as God; and this includes his most original properties and perfections: his unity of es See Mark xiv. 36. Luke xxii. 42. xxiii. 34, 46. "And Jesus lift up his eyes and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me." John xi. 41.. "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 tribulations." 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. "Thou art the king of glory, 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. 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 distin guished 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 Somewhats; as Dr. Wallis: 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 affections of ens simpliciter and the attributes of God; who doth infinitely transcend not |