Matthew 28:19 Go you therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: I. IS THE GREATEST HOMAGE OF FAITH. 1. By believing in this mystery we believe in the most incomprehensible of all mysteries, and consequently, we pay God the greatest homage. For I can have no sublimer conception of God than by professing Him absolutely incomprehensible. What else do we know respecting this adorable mystery but that we know nothing? 2. We sacrifice to God the noblest faculty of our nature, our intellect, by believing a mystery, of which we could not have the least idea, before God revealed it to us. II. Is THE MOST SOLID GROUND OF OUR HOPE. Without faith, no salvation. The most necessary article of faith is the belief in the most blessed Trinity. No one can be saved, except he knows and believes (1) that there are three Persons in one God; and (2) that the second Divine Person became man for us. III. Is THE MOST URGENT MOTIVE OF CHARITY. 1. It is the bond of brotherly love — "keeping the unity of the Spirit," etc. (Ephesians 4:1). 2. It is the model of brotherly love (John 17:11; Psalm 132:1). Peroration: Oh, most adorable Trinity, unite us in this world, that we may be united in heaven," etc. (Bourdalone.) Parallel Verses KJV: Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: |
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