SERM. VI lefs we endeavour to copy after his Life, as a complete Pattern of Goodness. He came, not to make our Repentance needless, but to make it valid and effectual. Ye are not your own, fays St. Paul; for ye are bought with a Price. Therefore glorify God in your Body, and in your Spirit, which are God's. SER SERMON VII. Preached at the Lady MOYER's LECTURE. On the Doctrine of the TRINITY. Go MATTHEW XXVIII. 19. ye therefore and teach all Nations, bap- HE Text fets before us the fo- SER. VII. which they were to baptize all Nations Though fome have treated this Doctrine as a mere notional barren Thing; yet, that our Saviour is God, and the Holy Ghost VOL. II. Ee God, SER. VII. God, is no more a speculative Point ; than this Propofition, viz. there is a God, is fo. Both Propofitions are the Foundations of several Duties, which are the neceffary Parts of a good Life. The Worship of our Saviour as God, our Gratitude and religious Homage to him, as fuch, are practical Points, as much as any Offices of Morality whatever. The Knowledge of our Duty equally obliges us to the Performance of it; through whatever Channel it is conveyed, whether by the Light of Nature, or that of Revelation. And from the Time, that the Scriptures had discovered to us the Nature and respective Offices of our Redeemer and Sanctifier; we were as much obliged to adore Them, as to adore the Father. And if a wilful Neglect of behaving fuitably to thofe Relations, which we bear to the Father and our fellow Creatures, makes us the proper Objects of Punishment; then a flagrant Neglect of acting suitably to those Relations, which we bear to the Son and Holy Ghost, muft likewife expofe us to the divine Displeasure *. In * See this Point fet in a beautiful Light by one of the finest Thinkers of the Age in his Analogy of natural and revealed Religion. Page 151, &c. fhort short we do not live a good Life, unless SER. VII. we treat Beings, as what they are in themfelves, and according to what they have done for us. The Man, who does not, as far as in him lyes, confider the Dignity of the Person of his Benefactor, nor the Greatness of the Benefits received from Him, is an immoral Man. His Life is wrong, and therefore his Faith cannot be right. To return to my Text, from which I have digreffed, "Whatever Perfons" (as à confiderable Writer expreffeth it) "named in Conjunction with God the Fa"ther in fuch an authoritative Manner, as are to give a Commiffion, upon the Execu"tion of which the Remiffion of Sins and "eternal Salvation depends, or in fuch a "Manner, as fuppofes Men to be confe"crated and dedicated to those Perfons ; "they all must be God." I fhall, therefore, It, Endeavour to prove from Scripture, that there are more Perfons than One in the divine Nature. Idly, I fhall anfwer the Objections against this Doctrine from the Nature of the Thing. SER. VII. Ist, I shall endeavour to prove from Scripture, that there are more Perfons than One in the divine Nature. I shall lay the main Strefs upon the Divinity of our Saviour: becaufe, if that is made good, there can be no reasonable Objection against the Divinity of the Holy Ghost; especially fince he is faid to search all Things, yea the deep Things of God, and to know the Things of God, (which no mere Creature can do,) as intimately as the Spirit of a Man knoweth his own Thoughts. 1 Cor. ii. 10, II. In the 1ft Place, the Scripture every where afferts, that God alone is to be worfhipped; the fame Scripture declares, that our Bleffed Saviour is to be worshipped: The obvious Confequence of which is, our Saviour is God. Thus St. Stephen adores him with direct Worship: Lord Jesus, receive my Spirit: A Petition of the fame Force and Energy with that, which our Saviour offered up to the Father on the Crofs: Father, into thy Hands I commend my Spirit. And again to Him is afcribed Glory and Praife and Dominion (after his Mediatorial Kingdom, which fome hath made |