whole work upon JerusaIbid. XIII. 13. I will

IX.17. Now therefore, O our God, bear the prayer of thy fervant-for the Lord's fake. Prov. XXX. 4. Who hath established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his Sons name, if thou canst tell? Ifa. X. 12, When the Lord hath performed his lem I will punish, &c. Shake the heavens, and the earth fhall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger. Ibid. XXII. 19. And I will drive thee from thy ftation, and from thy state shall he pull thee down. Ibid. LXIV. 4. Neither bath the eye feen, O God, befide thee. what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him. Hof.1.7. I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will fave them by the Lord their God. Zech. II. 10—11. I will dwell in the midst of thee, faith the Lord; and many nations fhall be joined to the Lord in that day and shall be my people; and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts bath Sent me unto thee. Ibid. X. 12. And I will Strengthen them in the Lord, and they shall walk up and down in his name, faith the Lord.

The Paffages hitherto produced in this Chapter are defigned only to prove an indefinite plurality in God. In the remaining part of it, I

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fhall bring forward another class of texts, which fhew this plurality to be a Trinity.

XI.

Pfal. XXXIII. 6. By the wORD of the LORD were the heavens made, and all the hoft of them by the breath (Heb. SPIRIT) of his mouth.

The breath or spirit of the Lords mouth, does undoubtedly mean the third perfon of the Trinity; who is called, Job. XXXIII.4. The Spirit of God, and the Breath of the Almighty. And it fhould here be remembered, that when Christ communicated the Holy Ghoft to his disciples, he did it by breathing upon them: a demonftration that Christ our Saviour, who, as a perfon, is the word of the Lord, is in nature the Lord himself; because the spirit or breath of the Almighty is also the breath of Christ.

XII.

Ifa. XLVIII. 16. And now the LORD GOD and his SPIRIT hath fent ME.

The speaker in this verfe is no other than Chrift, who at v. 12. calls himself the first and

the laft, and does here declare himself to be sent, not only by the Lord God, but alfo by his Spirit: which should be taken some notice of, because the Arians have objected to the co-equality of the Son with the Father, because he is faid to be fent by him. But if this should hold, it will follow that Chrift, for the fame reafon, is alfo inferior to the Spirit. The author of an Effay on Spirit, whose violent proceedings in the Church have chiefly moved me to draw thefe papers, is warm in the pursuit of this argument, that Chrift is inferior to the Father, because he was fent by him. "We may therefore, says he,

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equal to him that fent him. Not quite so fairly for here is a grofs misrepresentation, of which, and of many other things, this author should give us fome account, before he proceeds any farther in the work of reformation; it being a maxim, I think, with the wife and learned, that a man should always reform himself, before he undertakes to reform the world. Upon the occafion he refers to, our Saviour has faid -The Servant is NOT GREATER than his Lord ; neither is he that is fent GREATER than be that

fent him. But in the place of this, he has ventured to substitute another reading that comes up to his point, and agrees better with the intended work of Reformation-" he that is fent is not equal to him that fent him ;" printing the word equal in a different character to make it the more obfervable; and then puts an objection of his own forging into the mouth of our bleffed Saviour. He profeffes himself a great enemy to human compofitions: and we have reafon to believe him, where those compofitions are not his own. But his making fo free with this and many other texts does not look as if he was any great friend to the compofitions of the Holy Ghost; and can do but little credit to a Vindicator of the Holy Scriptures from the cavils and fcoffs of an Infidel.

XIII.

Ifa. XXXIV. 16. Seek ye out of the Book of the Lord and read for

My mouth it hath commanded, and
HIS SPIRIT it hath gathered them.

In these words, there is one perfon speaking of the Spirit of another perfon: fo that the whole

Trinity is here included. Whether God the Father or God the Son is to be understood as the fpeaker, it is neither easy nor material to determine. I am rather inclined to think it is the former.

XIV.

Numb. VI. 24. &c.

The LORD bless thee and keep thee. The LORD make his face to shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee. The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee and give thee peace.

After this form the High Priest was commanded to blefs the children of Ifrael. The Name of the Lord, in Hebrew Jehovah, is here repeated three times. And parallel to this is the form of Christian Baptifm; wherein the three perfonal terms of Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft, are not represented as fo many different names, but as one name: the one divine nature of God being no more divided by these three, than by the fingle name Jehovah thrice repeated. If the three articles of this benediction be attentively confidered, their contents will be found to agree refpectively

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