most eminent sense, HE ALONE IS WORTHY OF THAT DESIGNATION. The truth of this remark has been satisfactorily proved in the preceding section.

SECT. X.-PASSAGES OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, IN

WHICH THE DIVINE BEING IS CHARACTERIZED
AS THE GOD AND FATHER OF JESUS CHRIST, AND
AS THE GOD AND FATHER OF CHRISTIANS AND
OF ALL MANKIND.

(1) The God of Jesus Christ.

1. Matt. xxvii. 46: My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me ?-Par. Pas. Mark. xv. 34.-See p. 49 for Rev. ii. 7: iii. 2, 12.

2. 1 Cor. xi. 3: The head of every man is Christ,

and the head of Christ [is] God.-See chap. iii. 23. 3. Eph. i. 17: That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation, &c.

4. Heb. i. 9: God, [even] thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

(2) The Father of Jesus.

5; Matt. vii. 21: Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven. 6. Matt. x. 32, 33; xi. 27; xii. 50; xv. 13; xvi. 17, 27; xviii. 10, 19, 35; xx. 23; xxv. 34; xxvi. 29, 39, 42, 53. Mark viii. 38. Luke ii. 49; x. 22; xxii. 29; xxiv. 49. John ii. 16 ; v. 17, 18, 43; vi. 32, 65; viii. 19,2* 28,

* The small figures 2, 3, denote how often the word Futher occurs in the respective verses after which they are placed.

38, 49, 54; x. 17, 18, 25, 29,2 32, 37; xiv. 2, 7, 12, 20, 21, 23, 28; xv. 1, 8, 10, 15, 23, 24; xvi. 10; xviii. 11. Rev. ii. 27; iii. 5, 21; xiv. 1.

(3) The Father; viz. the Father of Jesus and his disciples.

7. John vi. 57: As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father; so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.

8. 1 John iii. 1: Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God!

9. Matt. xi. 25, 26, 27 ;2 xxiv. 36 (see Griesbach); xxviii. 19. Mark xiii. 32; xiv. 36. Luke ix. 26; x. 21,2 22,2 xi. 2 (see Griesbach); xxii. 42; xxiii. 34, 46. John i. 14, 18; iii. 35; iv. 21, 232; v. 19, 20, 21, 22, 23,2 26, 36,2 37, 45; vi. 37, 44, 45, 462; viii. 16, 18, 27, 29; x. 15,2 30, 36, 38; xi. 41; xii. 26, 27, 28, 49, 50; xiii. 1, 3; xiv. 6, 8, 9, 103, 11,2 13, 16, 24, 26, 28, 31;2 xv. 9, 16, 26;2 xvi. 3, 15, 16, 17, 25, 26, 27, 28,2 32; xvii. 1, 5, 11, 21, 24, 25; xx. 21. Acts i. 4, 7; ii. 33. Rom. vi. 4; viii. 15. Gal. iv. 6. Eph. ii. 18. Col. i. 12. Heb. xii. 9. James i. 17. 1 Pet. i. 17. 1 John i. 2, 3; ii. 1, 13, 15, 16, 22, 23,2 24; iv. 14. 2 John 3, 4, 9.

(4) The Father of mercies; the Father of glory; the Father of spirits; the Father of lights. 10-13. 2 Cor. i. 3. Eph. i. 17. Heb. xii. 9. James i. 17.

(5) Our Father, or our Heavenly Father.

14. Matt. v. 16: Let your light so shine before men,

that

they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

15. Matt. v. 45, 48; vi. 1, 4, 6,2 8, 9, 14, 15, 18, 26, 32; vii. 11; x. 20, 29; xiii. 43; xviii. 14; xxiii. 9. Mark xi. Luke vi. 36; xi. 13; xii. 30, 32. 2 Cor.

25, 26.

vi. 18.

(6) God our Father, or our God and Father.

16. 2 Thess. i. 1, 2; Paul

unto the church of the Thes

salonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ; grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

17. Rom. i. 7. 1 Cor. i. 3. 2 Cor. i. 2. 2. Phil. i. 2; iv. 20. Col. i. 2.

Gal. i. 4. Eph. i. 1 Thess. i. 1, 3;

iii. 11, 13. 2 Thess. ii. 16. 1 Tim. i. 2.

Philem. 3.

(7) God, the Father; God and the Father; or, God even the Father.

18. John vi. 27: Labour for that meat which endureth

unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall

give unto you; for him hath God, the Father, sealed. -See p. 47, No. 6.

19. James i. 27: Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, &c.

(8) The God and Father of Jesus, and of all

Mankind.

21. John xx. 17: Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended

to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and [to] my God, and your God.

22. 2 Cor. xi. 31: The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.-See Rom. xv. 6. 2 Cor. i. 3. Eph. i. 3. Col. i. 3. 1 Pet. i. 3. Rev. i. 6.

23. Eph. iii. 14, 15: For this cause I bow my

knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the

whole family in heaven and earth is named.

24. Eph. iv. 6: One God and Father of all, who [is] above all, and through all, and in you all (or, according to Griesbach, "in us all.")

OBSERVATIONS ON THE THREE PRECEDING PAGES.

We think that no man, unshackled by prejudice, fashion or self-interest, could peruse the numerous portions of Scripture which have been quoted or referred to in this section, without being irresistibly impelled to adopt the Unitarian faith, expressed by St. Paul with such beautiful precision, "TO US THERE IS ONE GOD, THE FATHER."

It is, indeed, alleged by "orthodox" writers, that the appellation Father is sometimes in the Scriptures employed as a designation of the "ever-blessed Trinity." But what authority is there for such an hypothesis? In what passage of the Bible is it declared, that this name sometimes denotes three persons? Does Jesus or his apostles give any countenance to such an application of the word? Do they not, rather, uniformly restrict it to one God, or one divine Person, by connecting it with pronouns and verbs in the singular number? Do they not always ascribe the parental character to the God of the Jews-the Creator of heaven and earth-to Him who sanctified and sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world, and who invested his Messenger

with all the power and qualifications necessary for accomplishing the salvation of mankind?

But, besides requesting our opponents to adduce their authority for regarding Father as a term signifying a Trinity of persons, we ask them also to point out one passage of the New Testament," in which the term is unequivocally applied either to Christ or to the Holy Ghost. And as this cannot be done, we would make a different request-we ask only for a single passage, from the whole compass of the Sacred Writings, in which the Saviour is called God the Son; and another and a third person, God the Holy Ghost. As already shown, the Unitarian can produce an immense number of texts, wherein the name Father must be restricted to one divine person: is it unreasonable to request the Trinitarian to cite only one passage, in which the same word is clearly applied to three divine persons, or to any other being than Him to whom Jesus attributed all that he possessed? The Unitarian finds no difficulty in giving scriptural authority for the use of the expression God, the Father, or God even the Father: is it unfair to require the Trinitarian to assign the same authority for his employment of the appellations God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost?

As it is impossible to answer any of these interrogatories in conformity with the principles of reputed orthodoxy, we may justly conclude, that the strict Unity of the Almighty, and the absolute Supremacy of the same being, expressly styled THE ONE GOD AND FATHER OF ALL, is a doctrine not only declared by Moses and the prophets, but inculcated in the strongest terms by Christ and the apostles.

* We have said—the New Testament, because Isa. ix. 6 is considered by most commentators to be a prophecy of our Saviour. Dr. Lowth's translation of this passage is, however, we believe, generally admitted by Trinitarians to be correct; and it will hardly be contended, that "the father of the everlasting age" is an expression indicating the nature of the being so called.