creation and revelation; the one greater, the other minor; the one eternal, the other temporal; the one self-existent, the other invented in the process of revelation. Therefore, Bushnell and his disciple, Brownson, hold that the Omnipotent God had performed a drama, using the characters, father, son and holy spirit ; and therefore, that the Trinity of the Christians is but a theatrical fiction. Hence, the infernal blasphemers turn into derision not alone the adorable Trinity, but also the Unity of God; whom the demons represent as a stage-player, deluding mankind by the dramatic and ficticious persons, that of a father, and son, and a holy spirit. Since they deny that the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost are the one eternal, self-existent, and Supreme Being, what do they make of the Trinity of persons who, as they blasphemously assert, had no existence previous to the revelation? What name do they give them? The fellows that hold such diabolical notions, can have no pretensions to Christianity; they are both rank atheists.

The holy Apostle, Ephes. II, saith: Therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners; but you are fellow citizens with the saints and domestics of God, built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone, in whom all the building groweth up into an holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are built together into an habitation of God in the Spirit. Be mindful that you being heretofore Gentiles in the flesh; that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the conversation of Israel, and strangers to the testament, having no hope of the promise, and without God in this world; but now in Christ Jesus, you who sometimes were afar off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ. But the two atheists would throw us back again to the gentiles, leave us aliens and foreigners to the conversation of the Church, without hope of the promise, without Christ, without God in this world. As the wretched pair reduce into nonentity, into a theatrical fictitious person, Christ Jesus, the

chief corner stone, the founder and finisher of the Christian religion, can they have the impudence to call themselves Christians; can the sectarian minister, Bushnell, have the hypocrisy to preach for any denomination calling themselves Christians? His hypocrisy and imposture are suitable to their ignorance and stupidity. If there be any truth in the holy prophet, Osee IV, 9, And there shall be like people like priest, the Presbyterian congregation are like their preacher, blind atheists.

But thou, O man of God, fly these things; and pursue godliness, faith, charity, patience, mildness. Fight the good fight of faith lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art called, and hast confessed the true faith before its enemies. I charge thee before God, who knoweth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who gave testimony under Pontius Pilate, that thou keep the commandment without spot, blameless, unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ who is the Blessed and only Mighty, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; who only hath immortality, and inhabiteth light inaccessible; whom no man hath seen, nor can see; to whom be honor and empire everlasting, Amen. 1 Tim. VI. But beware lest any man cheat you by philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead corporally; who is the head of all principality and power. Coloss. II, 8.

Indeed, the mad philosophy and vain deceit of the windy atheists would bewilder men ; level, not raise up the fences, demollish, not establish, the truth. But we speak, 1 Cor. II, 7, the wisdom of God is a mystery, a wisdom which is hidden, which God ordained before the world, unto our glory, which none of the princes of this world had known; for if they had known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory. True, Christ Jesus is a mystery, a wisdom, which God hath ordained before the world; which was with God from the beginning; which was God; which is hidden from the atheists; but which

God hath revealed to us by his spirit. Will they, like the hardened Jews, seek to murder him because be not only broke the Sabbath, but said also that God was his father? Had he denied that he was God, or that God was his father, they would never have crucified him. John V, 18.

Again, John I, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things were made by him; and without him was made nothing that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men ; and the light shineth in darkness and the darkness did not comprehend it. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came into his own (property) and his own (people) received him not-In propria venit et sui eum not receperunt. This solitary passage from the holy Evangelist, John, shatters all heresies, blows into air the theatrical burlesque of both atheists. As Christ was in the beginning with God, before all ages, and as he was God, their wild notion that he came into existence with revelation, that he was but a theatrical person invented by the eternal and absolute God to reveal himself to mankind, is proved to be satanic blasphemy. As all things were made by Christ, as the world was made by him, they are guilty of blasphemy and impiety in calling him a creature, only co-existent with revelation. Although he was the life and light of men, the true light, which enlighteneth every man coming into this world, which was made by him, the light which shineth in darkness-in sinners and unbelievers, the darkness does not comprehend him. He is to them a foolishness; they turn him into derision.

And again, Phil.. II, Christ being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but emptied himself, taking the form of a man, being made in the likeness of man, and in habit found as a man. He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the Cross. For which cause God also hath exalted him, and given him a name which

is above all names; that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those that are in Heaven, on earth, and under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father. Observe that whilst Christ Jesus was, without robbery or usurpation, in the form of God, and equal with God, he was made by his Father heir of all things, and creator of the world, the brightness of his Father's glory, the figure of his substance, upholding all things by the word of his power, he humbled himself even unto the death of the Cross, for our sake. Recollect that every knee, that is, every rational being in the world since the creation, men and angels, and even the spirits in the dreary regions below, must bow the knee in the name of Jesus, and confess that he is in the glory of God the Father: that of his kingdom there shall be no end. Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever. Thou in the beginning, O Lord, didst found the earth; and the works of thy hands are the heavens; they shall perish, but thou shalt continue; they shall be changed, but thou art the self-same, and thy years shall not fail. Heb. I.

The holy prophet, Isa. VI, 2, saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and elevated, and his train filled the temple; upon it stood the seraphim; the one had six wings, and the other had six wings; with two they covered his face, and with two they covered his feet, and with two they flew. The things that were made during the six days, are made known to us by revelation; but what the state of things had been previous to the creation, is concealed from us, and also what will be the condition of things after the world will come to an end, is kept secret from us, whilst we fly aloft on the wings of Faith and Hope, towards that ineffable ocean of felicity, which neither eye hath seen, nor ear hath heard. Besides, the Lord himself, John V, 19, when the Jews sought to kill him, because he did not only break the Sabbath, but also said that God was his father, making himself equal with God, answered and said to them: The Son cannot

do anything of himself, but what he seeth the Father doing.— Which he again makes clearer, John X, 38. The Father is in me and I in the Father. I and the Father are one.

Review, page 6. "What they teach is, that there is one God and one only God; but that in this one God there is the distinction ad intra, not ad extra, of three real persons, and that these three real persons subsist without prejudice to the strict and absolute unity and simplicity of the divine being. Distinctions ad extra undoubtedly destroy the absolute unity of the subject of which they are predicated; but distinctions ad intra do not; for we distinguish in the cube, for instance, length, breadth and depth, and yet without prejudice to its unity. We bring not this to illustrate the distinction of persons in God, but to show that distinctions ad intra are not incompatible with the unity of substance."

What heretical insanity he displays in the above passage By what cubical or chemical mensuration has he explored the ad intra, or ad extra, the essence or substance, the length, breadth and depth of the Deity? He may, perhaps, attempt to analyse the internal and external properties, the nature and elements of plants and flowers, of fire and water, but is bewildered in attempting to make ad intra, or ad extra, internal or external distinctions in the divine essence. For our Lord Christ Jesus, the blessed and the Mighty, the King of kings and Lord of lords, inhabiteth light inaccessible, whom no man hath seen, nor can see. 1 Tim. VI, 16. Thou canst not see my face: for no man can see me and live. Exod. XXXIII, 20. Since God is a pure simple spirit, who cannot be seen by mortal man, and since he inhabiteth light that is totally inaccessible to us, it seems to be rashness, or rather madness, to investigate his essential or accidental properties by profane philosophy. Before he soars aloft to the high heavens to scan the essence and substance, of the invisible, incomprehensible, omnipotent Being, let him look into himself and develope the innate properties of his soul,