Perfons met together at our Saviour's Baptifm; fo doth our Saviour here command, That all his Difciples be baptized in the Name of all Three: And therefore I cannot but admire how any one fhould dare to profefs himself to be a Chriftian, and yet deny, or oppose the Sacred Trinity, into which he was baptized when he was made a Chriftian; For, by this means, he renouncing his Baptifm, blafphemes Chrift, unchriftians himfelf, blotting his own Name out of the Catalogue of those who were made Chriftians, only by being baptized, in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft.

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II. Here is the Godhead of the Trinity, or of every Perfon in the Trinity, that one as well as the other is God: For here we see Divine Worship is to be performed to them all; and all that profess the true Religion must be baptized in the Name of the Son and Holy Ghoft, as well as of the Father; which certainly would be the greatest Abfuṛdity, yea, the moft horrid Impiety ima ginable, was not they God as well as he. For if they be not God, they are

Creatures;

Creatures, if they be Creatures, Rea fon as well as Scripture forbids the fame Honour and Worfhip to be conferred on them, which is given to God himself, and only due to him; which here, notwithstanding, we fee is given to them, and that by our Lord himfelf, commanding Baptifm to be adminiftred in his own Name, and in the Name of the Holy Ghoft, as well as in the Name of the Father; and fo making himself and the Spirit equal Sharers in the fame Ho nour that is given to the Father. So that was there no other place in the whole Scripture to prove it, this alone would be fufficient to convince any Gainfayer, that the Son and Spirit are God as well as the Father, or rather the fame God with him. But that I may unvail this Myftery, and confirm this Truth more clearly, we will confider each Perfon diftinctly, and fhew, that one as well as the other is really and truly God.

That the Father is God, none ever deny'd it, and therefore we need not prove it. But if the Father be God, the Son muft needs be God too for the fame Names, Properties, Works, and

Wor

Worship, which, in Scripture, are afcribed to the Father, are frequently afcribed to the Son alfo in Scripture: The Father is called Jehovah in Scripture, fo is the Son, Hof. 1. 7. Ferem, xxiii. 6. The Father is called God, fo is the Son, John i. 1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God with God, as to his Perfon; God, as to his Nature, So alfo John xx. 28. Acts xx. 28, &c. Moreover, Is the Father Alpha and Omega, the first and the laft? So is the Son, Rev. i. 8. Is the Father Eternal? fo is the Son, Ifaiah ix. 6. Revel. i. 8, Is the Father Almighty? fo is the Son, Heb. i. 3. Is the Father every where fo is the Son, Matt. xviii, 20, Doth the Father know all things? fo doth the Son, Joba xxi. 17. Chap. ii. 24. Did the Father make all things? fo did the Son, John i. 3. Doth the Father preferve all things? fo doth the Son, Hebr. i. 3. Doth the Father forgive Sins? fo doth the Son, Matthew ix. 6. Is the Father to be worshipped? fo is the Son, Hebrews i. 6. Is the Father to be honoured? fo is the Son, John V 23. No wonder therefore that Chrift being thus in the Form of God, thought

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thought it no robbery to be equal with God, Philippians ii. 6. He did not rob God of any Glory by faying himself was equal to him. The greatest Won der is, How any one can believe the Scriptures to be the Word of God, and yet deny this great Truth, than which nothing can be more plain from Scripture: Nothing being more frequently and more clearly afferted than this is. And, verily, it is well for us that it is fo; for if Chrift was not God, neither could he be our Saviour. None being able to free us from our Sins, but only he against whom they were committed. And therefore I cannot imagine how any one can doubt of Chrift's Divinity, and yet expect Pardon and Salvation from him: All our Hopes and Expectations from hin depending only upon his affumption of our Humane Nature into a Divine Perfon. Iis ovnstary

dal And that the Holy Ghoft alfo is God, is frequently afferted in the Holy Scriptures, which himself Indited. Indeed his very Inditing of the Scriptures was a clear Arguiment of his Deity, as well as the Scriptures indited by him. What

Man,

No,

Man, what Angel, what Creature, who but God could compofe fuch Articles of Faith, enjoin fuch Divine Precepts, foretel and fulfil fuch Prophecies as in Scripture are contained, who fpake unto, or by the Prophets? Whom did they mean, when they faid, Thus faith the Lord of Hofts? Who was this Lord of Hofts that inftructed them what to fpeak or write? Was it God the Father, or God the Son? but it Holy Gloft For was God the the Prophecy came not in old time by the will of Man, but Holy Men of God fpake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost, 2 Peter 1. 21. Acts xxviii. 25. Chapt. **i. 11. The Holy Ghoft therefore being the Lord of Hofts, he must needs be God, there being no Perfon that is or can be called the Lord of Hofts, but He that is the very and eternal God.

This alfo may be gathered from 1 Corinth. iii. 16. Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the fpirit of God dwelleth in you; for none can be the Temple of God, but he in whom God dwells; for it is God's dwelling in a place, that makes that place the

Temple