In the following Sheets, the Reader is defired to make thefe Additions. Pthis place; Add; For fuch is the Nature of the PAG AG 2. lin. 2. After the Words, be understood in Greek and Latin Languages, that by no other word, (neither by the word πρόσωπον, nor by ὑπόςασις, nor by any other word whatsoever,) can they so properly exprefs that which we mean by the english word, perfon; as by the mafculine Adjective alone. Upon which account the words of our Saviour, Job. xvi, 13. When Henev, to oveũμa & åandeias That Perfon,] the Spirit of Truth is come; are generally allowed to be a good Proof of the Perfonality of the Holy Ghost. And Job. x, 30, our Saviour affirms that He and his Father are [not, Es, One Perfon; but, v] one and the fame Thing, as to the Exercise of Power. And Tertullian and Other Writers commonly diftinguish, that they are not, [Unus,] one Perfon; but [Unum,] one and the fame Thing. Pag. 5, lin. 27. After the Words, and We; Add; [is duty, as it is in the Greek,] To Him. Pag. 28, lin. 18. After the Words, have no Being; Add; or, which by their Nature are not capable of having any divine Power or Authority. Thus A&s xix, 26. they be no gods; that is, they have none of that Authority and Dominion over you, which you ascribe to them. Pag. 218 after line 16, Add; 1146* Jude 20. Praying, in the Holy Ghoft. Pag. 249. lin. 34. after the word, Montanus's; Add: and perhaps Valentinus's; see Tertullian adverf. Prax. cap. 8, compared with the paffage in Irenaus lib. 1, . 1, referred to by the learned Bishop Bull, Defens. Sect. 2. c. 5. §4;) Pag. 283, line the laft. After the Words, Luminous` Body; Add; [Which Similitude how far it is true, fee explained in the following page.] THE THE Scripture-Doctrine of the Trinity. Being a Collection and Explication of all the Texts in the NEW TESTAMENT, relating to that Doctrine. CHA P. I. Of GOD the FATHER. SECT. I. The Paffages of the New Teftament, wherein M * AT. xix, 17. Why calleft thou me, Good? There is none Good, but One, [E, One † Perfon,] that is God. * See this explained, No 340, 762, 17, 13. So the word neceffarily fignifies; Neither can B the the word [God, or any other word than that of [Perfon,] be understood in this place. O Ifrael, the Lord 2. Mar. xii, 29. The firit of all the Commandments is; Hear, our God is One Lord. Our Lord and Saviour Ὁ Κύριο. και σωτὴς ἡ μῶν Ἰησᾶς Χρισὸς ἐν τοῖς βαιῶν τα Μωσέως ῥήματ ἑαυτό ευαγγελίοις φησί, βε τα, ὅτι κύριᾷ ὁ Θεὸς εἷς G και Εξομολογεμαί σοι, πάτερ, κύριε τον έρανὰ καὶ τῆς γῆς. Athanaf. contra Genres. Ἐλθὼν ἢ ὁ υὸς, εχ εαυτὸν ἀλλὰ τ πατέρα ἐδόξασεν, λέγων μὲν τῷ προσερχομλύω, Τί με λέγεις ἀγαθὸν; ἐδεὶς ἀγαθὸς, εἰ μὴ εἷς, ὁ Θεός· ἀποκρινόμε j τῷ ἐρωτῶντι, ποία ἐντολὴ ἐν τῷ νόμῳ μείζων, ὅτι Ακσε Ἰσραὴλ, κύρια. ὁ Θεός σε κύρια Father; laying to a cer. τις 3 μας θητὰς διδάσκων, ὅτι ὁ Lord: And teach- πατήρ με μείζων με αξί. ing his Difciples, fay - Athanaf: Orat. 3. contra ing, My Father is gream Arianos. ter than I. Mar. 3. 4. 5. Mar. xii, 32. There is tOne God, and there is none other but He. Viz. Strictly and properly, in the abfolute and fupreme Senfe, Autóde. As Athanafius well comments upon this place. For, (faith be,) there is One God, and there is None other but He: And when the Scripture faith, the Father is the Only God, Ess61, û en 15w anG TA UT. "OTE γεν μένα λέγεται ὁ πα τὴρ Θεὸς, καὶ ὅτι Εῖς θεὸς & 61, i to Ez TeWT Q and that there is One God, is the One God, and the Only one, and the Firft. Job. V, 44.v, and feek not the Honour that cometh from God only; [Gr. T8 Move Oe, from the Only God.] the xvii, 3. That they might know Thee Only true God, and [that they might know] Jefus Chrift whom Thou haft fent. + The True God, (faith Athanafius,) who is moft Τὸν ἀληθινὸν καὶ ὄντως vra Je, T Xgis B 2 πα 4 frigtly and abfolutely πατέρα. Athanaf. contra fuch ;' even the Father of Gentes. Chrift. And again: He whom we preach and worfhip, (faith be,) is the Only True God, the Lord of all Creatures, and the Author of all Being: And Who elfe is That, but the most Holy Father of Chrift, even He who is far above all derivative Being? who, as an excellent Governor, governs and preferves eve, ry thing every where, and difpofes and does every thing according to his own Pleafure, by hisown Wifdom and his own Word, even by our Lord Jefus Chrift. And long before Him, Origen; To thefe then (fays he.) [viz. who charge us with believing Two Gods, we muft reply, that He which is God of Himfelf, is That God; For which rearon our Saviour fays in his Prayer to his Τῆς πρὸς τὰ ἕνα καὶ μέσ Τὸν παρ ̓ ἡμῶν προσκυ Λεκτέον δ αὐτοῖς, ὅτι θεότητα |