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what it was his duty to do, and therefore could not merit any thing for others; but he taught us the true way to find acceptance with God, and that was by doing the will of his Father which is in heaven: and therein he is the way, the truth, and the life, becaufe no one cometh unto the Father, but by

that way.

Neither did he make fatisfaction unto God for us. It was impoffible; and what God never required: But he who had no pleasure in the death of finners, but rather that they should turn from their wickedness and live, out of the immeasurable height and depth of his love, directed our lord Jesus Christ to teach mankind a never-failing way of being reconciled to God; and that was by fincere repentance and reformation. This was the gofpel or good tidings of Jefus Chrift, Repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. He tells us, I am not come to call the righteous, but finners to repentance; and by that beautiful excellent parable of the prodigal fon, he illuftrates the tender mercy of his God and our God, of his Father and our Father, without any fatisfaction. The compaffionate Father required none at all, but humble confeffion and fubmiffion, with fincere repentance and reformation, and then comes the best robe, the ring, the Jhoes, and the fatted calf, to demonftrate the paternal acceptance without fatisfaction or facrifice, but a broken and a contrite heart which he will never re

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fufe; for he can as soon cease to be God, as ceafe to be merciful.

And as to the trinitarians, nothing is more plain, than that they feed upon afhes; a deceived heart hath turned them afide, because they will not make ufe of those rational faculties which God hath given them; nor fay, Is there not a lye in my righthand? otherwise they would never flatter the humble Jefus, nor make the most high God to be a plurality of persons.

For as to the holy ghost (their third God) it is evidently no diftinct person from God, any more than a man's fpirit is a diftinct perfon from the man; fo that the spirit of God is God's spirit, as is manifeft from feripture and reafon, Gen. vi. 3. My Spirit fhall not always frive with man: And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters: And God faid, Let there be light, and there was light. And God faid, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters. And God made all things by the word of his power. So that the word of God, and the fpirit of God, are not diftinct perfons from God, but the power of God, and the energy of God. So the word of a man, and the fpirit of a man, are not diftinct perfons from the man, but the man himself; if his word be falfe, or his fpirit be wicked, the man is falfe and wicked.

The fame degree of ftupidity that leads trinitarians to call the word of God, and the fpirit of

God,

God, diftinct perfons, would lead them to call the wisdom of God, the goodness of God, the love of God, the peace of God, the power of God, and the mercy of God, diftinct perfons; and make God to be a trinity of trinities; for it is certain, God is exprefsly called by all thofe names.

But whofoever goes about to father this abfurd and horrid doctrine of the trinity upon Jefus Christ, does egregiously abuse him; who told us plainly, his Father was greater than he; and that he could do nothing of himself, which is a demonftration that he is not God: For we are fure God is omnipotent, and can do all things of himself; being self-existent and independent, the fupreme creator of the univerfe; and in this it is, that the unitarians triumph as unanswerable, believing in Jefus Chrift, who told us his Father was the only true God, John xvii. 3.

P.S. By thefe laft words of Chrift, I myself was convinced many years ago.

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FAMILIAR ILLUSTRATION

OF CERTAIN

PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE

RELATING TO

THE POWER OF MAN TO DO THE WILL OF GOD,

ORIGINAL SIN,

ELECTION AND REPROBATION,

THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST, AND

ATONEMENT FOR SIN BY THE DEATH OF CHRIST.

SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES. JOHN V. 39.

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