SECTION VI.

Such as the Father is, such is the Son, and such is the Holy Ghost.

"That is, as to their substance and Godhead; there is no difference nor inequality amongst them. In real dignity and perfection, they are equal and undivided."

Viz. The Father UNCREATE, the Son UNCREATE, and the Holy Ghost UNCREATE.

Each Person in the Godhead is Eternal, and Eternity has neither beginning nor ending.-See "Eternity an Attribute," Sec. iv.

Eternity, therefore, cannot be divided, which will illustrate the expression, "not dividing the substance," as applied to God: the Three Persons, being essentially, the same Eternal Being. "In a word,

Every Person must and cannot but exist; and All must exist together, having the same unchangeable perfections."

SECTION VII.

The Father INCOMPREHENSIBLE, the Son INCOMPREHENSIBLE, and the Holy Ghost

INCOMPREHENSIBLE.

"No man knoweth the Son but the Father; nor any knoweth the Father, save the Son."-Luke x. 22. Matt. xi. 27.

"The things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God."-1 Cor. ii. 11.

Should the word incomprehensible, being a translation of the Latin "immensus," be taken in the sense of Infinite : it may be illustrated by the attribute of Omnipresence, which is equally authorized by Scripture.

"Whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there: if I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.”—Ps. cxxxix. 7, 8, 9, 10.

" Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them."-Matt. xviii. 20. See Is. xliii. 2, 3.

"I am with you always, even unto the end of the world."-Matt. xxviii. 20.

"No man hath ascended up into heaven, but He that came down from heaven, even the Son of Man, which is in heaven."-John iii. 13.

"Whither shall I flee from thy Spirit ?"-Psalm cxxxix. 7.

"Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost."1 Cor. vi. 9.

SECTION VIII.

The Father ETERNAL, the Son ETERNAL, and the Holy Ghost ETERNAL.

The Eternity of the Three Persons of the Trinity, has been shewn, Sec. iv.

"None of the Persons" of the blessed Godhead "ever began to be, nor shall ever cease to be; they always were, they always will be; and must be "the same. yesterday, to-day, and for ever."-Heb. xiii. 8.

SECTION IX.

And yet not THREE ETERNALS, but ONE

ETERNAL.

It will be shewn below, in its proper

place, that there is but One God. Assuming this the Three Eternal Persons, are but One Eternal God.

"This manner of speaking was introduced into the Latin Church, about the middle of the fourth century. The Greek Church taught the same things under a different form of expression. What both Greeks and Latins intended was, that as the Three Persons are but one Substance, and One God; so every Divine Perfection, and every Substantial Attribute, belonging to any One Person, is common to All. On this account, Eternity, Immensity, Omnipotence, &c. being Substantial Attributes, are common to All the Three Persons; who have, therefore, One Eternity, One Immensity, One Omnipotence, &c. as One Substance, and One Godhead."See Rev. i.

"The Latin Church went still farther: they expressed the same thing, by saying of the Three Persons, that they are One Eternal, One Immense, One Omnipotent,

One Holy, One Uncreated," &c. As they had before said of the "Attributes, Perfections, &c. common to All the Three Persons of the Godhead."

"This was the current language before and at the time of making this Creed."

"The Arians were the sole occasion of introducing both kinds of expression; which must be interpreted accordingly."

"Two things were designed, by the use of both. One to obviate the Arian Tenet, that the Three Persons were differing in kind and in degree, as being unequal Perfections:"

"The other, to obviate the Arian calumny upon the Church, as making Three Gods."

"In regard to the former, when the Church speaks of One Divinity, she intends equal Divinity: not Divinities differing in kind or degree."

"In regard to the latter, she further means undivided and inseparable Divinity not many Divinities."