In support of Trinitarianism. (6) Micah v. 2. Whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. This has often been produced for the absolute eternity of Christ, and therefore his proper deity. (7) Malachi iii. 2. And the LORD whom ye seek shall suddenly come to his temple, even the Messenger of the Covenant whom ye delight in : behold he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts. (8) Matt. i. 23. And they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. (9) Matt. xxviii. 19. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Sop, and of the Holy Ghost. 10. b From this form of baptism, it is inferred, that the Son and the Holy Ghost are each truly God, as well as the Father, and equally with him possessed of the essential attributes of Deity. (10) John i. 1-3. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and Disproving the common Interpretation. he may employ that peculiar appellation of the Supreme Being, wherever he finds the word LORD in small capitals, in the Public Version of the Old Testament. It is so printed, to denote that the original is JEHOVAH. See however, No. 7. (6) Micah v. 4. Of the same person it is said, He shall stand and feed in the strength of Jehovah, in the majesty of the name of Jehovah HIS GOD. (7) Deut. vi. 4. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one LORD: or, more agreeably to the spirit of the original, JEHOVAH our God, JEHOVAH IS ONE. (8) Luke vii. 16, explains this appellation: A great prophet has risen up among us, and, God hath visited his people. (9) John xvii. 3. Our Lord when praying to the FATHER, said, And this is life eternal, to know THEE the ONLY TRUE GOD, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. Hence he could not possibly mean that the Son or the Holy Ghost, is truly God. His words would otherwise be absolutely contradictory to one another, which is impossible. (10) See the Texts in No. 4. Jer. x. 6, 10, 12. There is none like unto thee, O Our Lord Jesus Christ himself uniformly and invariably taught this Jewish doctrine If the divine whity. When he was asked 12. "Mark 29. by one of the Serches, which was the chris commandment of the law, he estes the very words of Moser "Hear A. Ssrael, the Lord thy God is one Lord." The Scribe aplied Muster, thou hust send the truth: for there is one God, and there is none other but he' Jesus in one of the moth interesting moments of his life says bather the hour only the Son, that thy son also may. Storify thee. As thon hust given himi Jommer over all flick, that he should give overall flesh, sturnal life to as many as thon hust geven heim. And this is life eternal, that "They might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thon hust sent 17 John 3. Saint Paul says Rom. 3. 30. It is me foil who will justify" he says he to the foun thean founthear know Mat there is none other God butone us there is but one God, the Luther 5th). Cor. 4.6. Wefon the celebrated text in 1 Sohn 5.My. " for there are there, that bear record & no comment is necessary, since the evidence of it's spariousness is inesistible and since every person whose knowledge qualifies kein to engage in the contovery, now pupus it by in silence. See Belsham's calm enquiry into the Scripture Doctrine concerning the person of Bhist p. 236. Lindsey's Apology 98. The spirit, the water & one, or are one The Hoodagrein testemony that deserves the long fod. Erastt. 20th 9. So ze therefore, and tende all nations, baptizing them in the name the dather, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. The Chortles of our Lord, to Shom he delivered this direction concerning baptism, could not conclude, from any thing he had hesre taught them, that Frontended by it anything whe Go to 12 c Interpretations in consistency with the Divine Unity. stances attending their birth, distinction, &c. And the present prophetic appellation implies no more, than that, under the person to whom it was applied, Jehovah would confer abundant blessings on mankind. The following examples will shew, what little weight should be given to the argument from names. Elihu signifies my God himself; Elishaphat, God that judges; Elishama, God that hears; Badjah, the only Jehovah; Tobiah, good Jehovah; Adonijah, the Lord Jehovah; Eliah, God Jehovah. (6) Since Jehovah is THE GOD of him whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting, it is clear that this person could not himself be truly God. The import is explained by Rev. xiii. 8, the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. The coming and death of Christ were fixed in the divine counsels from all eternity. (7) In this passage the Messenger of the Covenant is called LORD; and from the mode of printing, many have supposed that the appellation JEHOVAH is here applied to him. The error is a great and important one, and exists in many excellent editions of the Bible. (8) Agreeably to the Hebrew mode of giving names, this appellation signifies, God is with us; and God was indeed with us by Christ. He was with us in his wonderful works; and He was with us in those gracious doctrines which, by our Saviour, He fully revealed to mankind. (9) Baptizing into, or into the name of, any one, means baptizing into the belief of him. The words simply mean, Baptizing them into the profession of faith in that religion, which had God, even the Father, as its Author, which was revealed by Jesus Christ, and which was confirmed by the miraculous agency or power of God. The Holy Spirit, or Spirit of God, in the Scriptures, denotes, either God himself, or, most commonly, the influence or agency of God, in whatever way employed, and particularly his miraculous agency. (10) Jesus Christ, (as the word of God, appointed by him to be the special Revealer of his mind and will, favoured at the beginning of the Gospel dispensation, with peculiar and In support of Trinitarianism. the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. Ver. 10. He was in the world; and the world was made by him; and the world knew him not. This passage is supposed to teach, that Christ Jesus was the original Creator of all things, and that he was truly and properly God. Having previously imbibed this opinion, many have been led by a little similarity of expression, to suppose the same implied by the words of the Psalmist, Ps. xxxiii. 6: By the word of Jehovah were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. The perusal of the passages in the next column may serve to remove this unfounded supposition: The word of Jehovah in this text, clearly means, the command of Jehovah so in the 9th verse, He (Jehovah) spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast. Two or three other passages are supposed strongly to countenance this doctrine; one, Col. i. 16, 17, will be noticed in its place. In Eph. iii. 9, God who created all things by Jesus Christ: the words by Jesus Christ are omitted in Griesbach's Greek Testament, as not written by the Apostle; and if they had Disproving the common Interpretation. Jehovah!-Jehovah is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King.—He hath made the earth by his power; he hath established the world by his wisdom; and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion. Ps. xcv. 5. The sea is his (Jehovah's) and he made it; and HIS HANDS formed the dry land. Isa. xlv. 18. For thus saith Jehovah, that created the heavens, God himself that formed the earth, and made it—I am Jehovah, and there is none else. Jer. xxvii. 4, 5. Thus saith Jehoval of hosts, the God of Israel, I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, BY MY GREAT POWER, AND BY MY OUTSTRETCHED ARM. Neh. ix. 6. Thou, even thon, art Jehovah alone: thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens with all their host, the earth and all things that are therein, the seas and all that is therein. Acts iv. 24. Lord, (Sovereign Lord,) Thou art God, which hast made heaven and earth, and the seas, and all that in them is. Rev.iv.11. Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power, for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are, and were created. Various other passages di |