2 Corinthians 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen. I. TO LAY BEFORE YOU WHAT THE SCRIPTURE TEACHES US RESPECTING THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY IN UNITY. 1. That there is but one God. 2. That this one God subsists under three relations or, as we commonly say, in three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. 3. That these three Persons, though in a manner inconceivable by us, are distinct from each other. 4. It is to be observed, in the fourth place, that the Scriptures teach us that each of these three Persons is truly and perfectly Divine. II. TO DEDUCE FROM IT SOME PRACTICAL INFERENCES. We infer from this subject — 1. How great is the happiness, how exalted the dignity, and how elevated the hopes of the real Christian. 2. How vain is the religion of those who refuse to admit this essential truth of Christianity. 3. How vain the religion and how fearful the state of those who, while they speculatively admit the doctrine of which we have been speaking, yet practically deny it, and live in the indulgence of worldly and sinful tempers and habits. 4. What abundant ground is there for the consolation of the real penitent! 5. Much of the nature of the Christian's duty. Has God revealed Himself as subsisting in three distinct Persons? The Christian is bound to offer his thanksgivings to each of these Persons for the share taken by Him in the economy of redemption. 6. How highly we ought to value those Holy Scriptures, which alone contain a discovery of this inexplicably mysterious yet unspeakably important doctrine! (J. Natt, B. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen. |
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