says, "If this be a just account of the right Christian faith, the Lord have mercy upon the poor Jews! For their case is truly deplorable. Unless they hearken to the voice of God under the first covenant, and obey the commandments of that law which was delivered to their forefathers from Mount Sinai by God himself, and more fully explained to them afterwards by the mediation of Moses, the heaviest and most dreadful menaces of divine vengeance are announced against them by their inspired law-giver: and if they do their duty in this respect (according to this most merciful and righteous creed) without doubt they shall perish everlastingly. Articles of Christian Faith, according to the GOSPEL. The Lord our God is one, and to us there is but one God. God is a Spirit Articles of the right Faith, according to the ORTHODOX. The Lord our God is one Lord and one God, but in that one Lord and God are three Persons, every one of which is Lord and God. God is a Being consisting of three distinct agents, a Father, a Son, and a Spirit. They that worship God must worship him in spirit and in truth. Our God is the God of Jesus Christ. If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thy heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah, the Son of God. Jesus Christ was made of a woman, and born under the law, when Augustus Cæsar was emperor. Jesus Christ was the son of David; the seed of Abraham; a prophet like unto Moses; a Man whom God anointed with the Holy Spirit, and with power, whom God raised from the dead; a mediator between God and all mankind, under the new covenant, as Moses was between God and the nation of the Jews under the old covenant. The Son could of his own self do nothing. Even the words that he spake were not The Catholic Faith is this, that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity. Jesus Christ is God of God. It is necessary to everlasting salvation, that a man believe rightly the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the very and Eternal God. Jesus Christ was not made but begotten of his Father from everlasting, and at length born of a woman in the world. Jesus Christ is the One, true and Eternal God, who for our salvation came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost (who is also the very same God) of the Virgin Mary, so that two whole and perfect, and contradictory natures, the Godhead and manhood, were inseparately united in one Christ; which union was made by converting the Godhead into man; and also not by converting the Godhead into man, but by taking the manhood into God. The Son is in all respects such as the Father is, in glory equal, in majesty co-eternal. his, but the Father's who sent him, and his Father is greater than he. The Son of God and his Father are two separate beings, because they are two separate witnesses, bearing legal testimony to the truth of the gospel. Because Jesus Christ was uniformly humble and obedient, even unto the death upon the cross, therefore God hath highly exalted him, and given him all power over things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth. At that period, which is predicted in the prophecies of the New Testament, Jesus Christ will miraculously descend from heaven, destroy the idolatrous perversion of his holy religion, convert all na. tions to himself, and establish his promised kingdom of righteousness and peace, for a long term of years before the gene. ral resurrection of the dead. The dead shall not rise again with their natural bodies of flesh, but with spiritual bodies, like those of the angels in hea ven, because flesh and blood cannot inherit the life to come, The Father and the Son, together with the Holy Ghost, are but one and the very same Being and substance. Jesus Christ was from all eternity Almighty, and had at all times as much power over the things in heaven, in earth, and under the earth, as the Father himself. Jesus Christ will continue to sit at the right hand of God the Father in heaven, until he cometh to judge all men at the last day; at whose coming all men shall rise again. The dead shall rise again with their own natural bodies of flesh and blood. nor exist in a celestial, incorruptible, and immortal state. The sum of our religion is, faith, hope, and charity; of these, the greatest, and by consequence that which is be fore all other things necessary to a true Christian, is charity; and charity hopeth all things. But with what judgment men shall judge they also shall be judged. This is the Catholic Faith, which is before all things necessary to be held by whosoever will be saved; which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved; and which except every one do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly. THE SYLLOGISMS OF WOLZOGENIUS, In which it is shewn that the Doctrine of the Trinity overturns itself. Division I. 1st. Because it follows from this doctrine, that there is but one God, and yet that there are three Gods, Thus, The Father is God, The Son is God, The Holy Spirit is God; Therefore there are three Gods. This is arguing upon the ground which Trinitarians themselves take. For when they wish to prove that there are three persons in one God, they say, The Father is a Divine Person, The Holy Spirit is a Divine Person; Persons. In the very same mode we reason, The Son is Supreme God, The Holy Spirit is Supreme God; Therefore there are three Supreme Gods. Just the same as we should say; Peter is a man, Paul is a man, John is a man; Therefore there are three men. Or, Michael is an angel, Gabriel is an angel, Raphael is an angel ; Therefore there are three angels. 2d, The doctrine of the Trinity destroys itself, because it follows from it, that one person is another person. Thus, The Father is the Only God, The Son is the Only God; Therefore the Father is the Son. Again, The Father is the Only God, The Holy Spirit is the Only God ; |