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nion]; the Son is Lord: and the Holy-ghoft Lord. 18. AND yet not three Lords [feparate rulers]: but one Lord.

19. FOR like as we are compelled by the chrif tian verity [declaring the diftinction of offices and perfonal moral-characters in the divine-life both original in God, and deriv'd from him in his imitative fons]; to acknowledge every perfon, by himself, to be God and Lord [i. e. free-ruler over free-peaple; and abfolute, over flaves];

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20. So are we forbidden by the catholick religion Li. e. univerfal-law of one uniform, living-practice]: to say, there be three Gods or three Lords [feparate Rulers].

21. THE Father is made of none [i. e. is not derived er formed of any other]: neither created [out of nothing, nor begotten [of fomething, in any refpect, before him].

22. THE Son, is of the Father alone: not made [i. e. formed], nor created [out of nothing], but begotten [fo as to poffefs or receive the likenefs of his Father].

23. THE Holy-ghoft is of the Father and of the Son: not made [i. e. formed] nor created [out of nothing], nor begotten [in the way of imitative-likenefs or durable-image; as the Son is], but proceeding [in progreffive active life, filling the whole of abfoluteduration as the Son doth the whole of abfolute-fpace or boundless amplitude of being and expanfion prefentially: and the Father, the unity of neceffary felf-exiftence invisible. John i. 18, xiv. 2-6-10-16~ 21—24—26. 1 John iv. 12-16. v. 9—11].

24. So there is one Father, not three Fathers: one Son, not three Sons: one Holy-ghoft, not three Holy-ghofts.

25. AND in this Trinity, none is afore, or after other [in refpect of duration]: none is greater or lefs than another [in authority or extent of dominion]; 26. BUT the whole three perfons are co-eternal

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together [in duration]: and co-equal [in authority as aforefaid].

27. So that in all things, as is aforefaid: the unity in Trinity, and the Trinity [of perfonal moral-cha-· racters and offices] in unity [of fubftantial-life] is to be worshipped [by practically acknowledging the fupreme dominion of this three-one divine-life original and felf-exiftent in God; and derived of God in the free beatified creature].

28. HE therefore that will be faved [from abfolute flavery, and the extreme mifery arifing from eternal co-erción or reftraint of obftinate felf-will]: muft thus [practically] think of the Trinity [and order his life accordingly].

II. 29. FURTHERMORE [to go on to the 2d. part of this difcourfe; which declares thofe attributes of Chrift our King, that render him, under God, fupremely worthy, as to his human-nature in union with the divine, of the highest praises dueto his mediatorial character from man-incarnate regenerated or engaged in the regeneration-process: and which are fully expreffed in the remaining part of the Athanafian Creed, as followeth], it is neceffary to everlasting falvation [which depends on the acquiring a durable habit of the three-one divinelife or is rather no other than that habit it felf]:. that he alfo believe rightly [in order to fuitable practice needful for acquiring the aforesaid durable habit] the incarnation of our Lord Jefus Chrift [the vifible exemplar we are to imitate with abfolute fubmiffion of our felf-mortified wills, during our education in his fchool].

30. FOR the right faith [leading to right prac tice in the chriftian-life, preparatory for the divinelife] is, that we believe [by our understanding] and confefs [by fuitable practice]: that our Lord Jefus Chrift, the Son of God [as filially poffeffed of the three-one divine-life], is God [the Son, or original living-wifdom good and powerful] and man [poffelling

feffing the created animal-life incarnate. And therefore, as manifefting the original three-one divinelife to incarnate-man by a vifible incarnate exemplar fciz. His own incarnate-life, is eminently the light of the world, leading to the acquifition of the three-one divine-life by like fteps, as Chrift's human-nature obtain'd it (when he grew in wifdom and ftature, and in favour with God and man; Luk. ii. 52.) and as he afterwards form'd his dif ciples by precepts and fpiritual acts of power related in the gospel- hiftory of Chrift's life conducting the regeneration procefs. John xiv. 6];

31. GOD, of the fubftance of the Father, begotten before the world's [Awvwv, or ages of the regeneration or generative-creation-procefs. See No. 22. 3. 5. 6. John. i. 1-4-9-12-14]: and man, of the fubftance of his mother [Luk. i. 31-35], born in the world [Av, i. e. regeneration age]; 32. PERFECT God, and perfect man; of a reafonable foul, and human flesh fubfifting [Mat. xxvi. 39-42. xxvii. 46, &c.];

33. EQUAL to the Father, as touching his Godhead No. 15. 25, 26. John xiv. 1-7-10]: and inferior to the Father, as touching his manhood [John xiv. 28. xvii. 3].

34. WHO, although he be God and man: yet he is not two, but one Chrift [John x. 30. xvii. 21-23] [and therefore, in falvation of the animallife ; it must be united with the divine-life: fo conftituting the Chrift within us, mentioned by St. Paul, Gal. iv. 19].

35. ONE; not by converfion of the Godhead into fleth [or changing the free-dominion of the divine-life into the likenels of the inftinctive animal-life] but by taking of the manhood into God [ie, changing the animal-instinctive-life into the Image and likeness of the free-dominion of the divine-life; fo as to be capable of intimate union with it];

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36. ONE altogether; not by confufion of fubftance [in a chaos-like anarchy, void of all regimen] but by unity of perfon [in one confiftent perfect harmonious form of life divine and animal]. -37. FOR, as the reasonable foul and flesh is one man [by fuch an harmonious union]: fo God and man is one Chrift [the divine-light of the ift. regeneration day. John i. 4-14. Gen. i. 3-5. producing the moral tri-union (i. e, the good and wife ufe of moral-power) in private life-animal the legal tri-union (ie. the loyal and skilful use of legal-power) in publick-life-animal: which conftitutes moral, and legal virtue refpectively].

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38. W Ho fuffer'd for our falvation [both to preserve the authority of God's laws, by due Punishment of fin and alfo to teach finners, by his example, how to become perfect thro' fufferings; in felf-mortification, by abfolute fubmiffion of the hu man-will to the divine (Mat. xxvi. 39); that, by fermentative expanfion of the elemental-powers of the animal-life and diffolving its evil habits, free admiffion may be given to thofe of the divine-life and thereby a well-digefted establishment of a Godlike regimen-legiflative be produced in the animallife, as in the firmamental-heavens of the 2d. regeneration-day (Gen. i. 6, 8.) conftituting caufal-virtue (i. e. tri-union of the caufal-powers final, medial and fruitive; in fruition of the end propofed, thro' the ufe of fit means) in private-life-animal, legiflative virtue (i, e. tri-union of the legislative powers parliamentary, king, lords and commons; in the regal fiat given to laws fought by petition of the commons to fupply the wants felt by the community, and approv'd of by the great council of lords in their deliberations about the fitnefs of the laws propofed) in the publick civil-life of the animal-polity]: defcended into hell [or Hades, i. e. the invifible ftate of fouls feparated from our vifible finful bodies: thereby teaching us felf-mortification of the fallen executive ani

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mal-life or old-man; for he voluntarily gave himself up to his perfecutors, Mat. xxvi. 53], rofe again the 3d. day from the dead [literally: by which chriftians are inftructed to rife fpiritually, on the 3d. day or step of the regeneration procefs, into a state of vital or executive virtue flourishing with blooming feeding fyftems of contemplative and practic forms of life, as well as the medicinal afcetic herbage (Gen. i. 9-13). vitalvirtue; is the tri-union of the vital-powers perceptive, difcriminative, operative: wherein operation proceeds from difcrimination grounded in clear perception, and is always the refult of a found judgment or guided by it. Executive-virtue; is the tri-union of the executive powers, in execution of the laws by legal-officers duly-qualified].

39. HE afcended into heaven [the divine-life feat of law-making thereby affuring his followers of the afcenfion of moral-virtue, in the 4th ftep of the regeneration-process, into most intimate union with caufalvirtue; and of loyalty or legal-virtue, with legislativevirtue; in private and publick animal life refpectively: in like manner, as the lights were placed in the heavens on the 4th creation-day, Gen. i. 14-19.No. 37.] He fitteth [eftablifhed] on the right-hand of the Father God almighty [in the divine-life apprehenfion of fupreme free-dominion; for the Father committeth all judgment to the Son: whence, in combination of moral-virtue with vital in private animal-life, and of legal-virtue with executive in publick animal-life, on the 5th regeneration-day, chriftians are taught to give free full moral-affent and vital practic confent to the laws of the divine-life now establish'd in the animal-system and circulating thro' it, as in the volatiles and aquatiles of the 5th creation-day, Gen.i.20-23]: from whence he fhall come to judge [difcriminatively, parting the fheep from the goats]the quick [living members of this Godlike animal-fyftem] and the dead [paffive or unac tive, flaves to their lufts, yielding an unwilling forced obedience to the laws of God] [on the 6th regenera

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