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Religious worship to be offered to one

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repent; because he hath apprented a daythe which he will guage the world by the Man whom he booth ordained; where if he hath guin apurance unto all men in that he hath daised hein from the dead" by Arts 238. See also the joint prayer of the Apostles 4.Acts 24. Isa. 42. 8. Jam the Lord that is any Name : and my glory will denst gove to another, neither my pureuse to graninemages See also that fine prayer of King Solomon at the dedication of the Temple 2. 6hro. 6. and the Booky Psalms de bur saviour bhist himself always prased to God

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the Father, his Luther and our Father, his God and our God" John 20. 17. Luke 10th 21. I thank thee & Gutter Lord. Heaven and earth &r even so father, fr so Aseemed good in thy sight! Lahe 22. 42. Father of thou be willing remove this cup from one : nevertheless got my will but there be done" John 16. Proughout our Saviour not only prayed himself but also directed prayer to he made only to God, the father Luke 11.7.2 Matt. 6th 10. John 15th 16. Our Saviour exfusly forbids prazer to be offered to hein John 16. 23. In that dayze shall atte ast me nothing: anly, verily, I say unto zon, whatsoeverze shall ash the Watther in my name, he will give it you. Our Lords aportles also direct men to pray Ladonly. Romans 15. 6.30. Phil 1. 3.4.6 bol. 3. 16. 17. Eph. 5. 19.20. dr they also pared to sad only themselves Acts 47. 24. 30 8. 16. Chap. 27. 1 Jem. 1. 170.

What we call the doctrine of the Trinity in Unity. For he had taught them, that there was one God the Lather, and none other besides the Mark 12th 32. He had taught them that he was the son of the Father, his messenger, that he received his buing, doctrine, conthority, power, everything from him. And he had constantly Spoken to them of the Holy short, as the Conserterne gift of God, by which he himself had been guided and assisted John 3. 34. 1. 33. Luke 4th) and which

would he sent to supply his place when he left them, to assist and support them in preaching his gespelt all nations John 14th oth 16th

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informed and propagated by the. t miraculous powers of the Holy Spirit. Shatt. 20th 19. The Apostles and as he up themselves to the above form of. baptism, they thought baphom might be complete as thout at, as affeces from many instances in the Acts of the Apostley, and Saint Paul's epistles. For Acts 2 ? 30 Peter says the baptized ever one of you in the name

10th 40 - 19th 5. _. Romans 67.3. Zal. 3. The Gull meaning of baptizing in the name of the Father, and of the don't of the Noly Ghost "cannot be better expressed than by the paraphrase of D. Blake, Mat is, "receiving to a profession of the belief, obligation to the practice of

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Matreligion, which God the Father has revealed and laught by the Son, and confirmed by the Holy Short.

Interpretations in consistency with the Divine Unity.

express communication with God, and receiving from him the spirit without measure,) is here called a God, agreeably to Hebrew modes of expression, because to him, in so extraordinary a degree, the word of God came. On this same principle our Lord explains the application of the term in the Old Testament (see John x. 34, 35 :) it is there repeatedly given to judges, magistrates, and prophets; and it is in particular given to Moses, Exod. vii. 1: Behold I have appointed thee a God unto Pharaoh, and Aaron shall be thy prophet.'

The passages in the second column demonstrate that Jehoval, God of Israel, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, is the sole Creator of the universe; and that He exercised his creating power without any subordinate agency. If those passages are true, in their plain and unambiguous sense, Jesus Christ could not be the Creator of the natural world.

In the great change effected by the Gospel in the spiritual condition of mankind, (of which the Apostle Paul repeatedly speaks as a new creation,) Jesus Christ was the great appointed agent. Through him, God executed all his gracious purposes to mankind: through him, the world was placed in a new and blessed state; and mankind created anew to righteousness and true holiness.

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Following this mode of interpretation, we may consistently employ the language of the common translation but the meaning of the Apostle may, probably, be more correctly represented as follows:

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At the beginning of this grand æra in the moral world, 'he was' declared to be the Word; and the Word was with God,' favoured by Him with peculiar divine intercourse and communications, (referring to the period of our Lord's retirement in the Desert ;) and the Word was a God,' since to him the Word of God came, and he was the Representative of the Most High. All things' relative to the Gospel dispensation were done through him;' he was the appointed agent in all.Ver. 10. He was in the world, and the world' of mankind were formed anew' (or brought into an enlightened state) "by him, and yet the world knew him not.'

If Jesus Christ had been the agent in the Natural Creation, he could only have been the subordinate agent; it must still have been effected by the power of Jehovah. There have been some, in other respects Unitarians, (believing in the Absolute Unity, Unrivalled Supremacy, Exclusive Worship, and Essential, Unpurchased Mercy of God, even the Father,) who

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