The Preface. againfl: the Arians they expreOy and confl:antly contend that the holy 'Trinity, that is, the Divine Nature in three Perfons, is the individual objeCt: of all Divine Adoration, Invocation, and all religious \X!orfhip ; and that by whatever perianal Name, as the Father, Son, or Spirit, we call on God, it is God abfolurely who is adored, and each perfon participant of the fa1ne Nature. See Auguft. Lib. con. Serm. Arian-. cap. 3; . And Epift. 66. ad Maximum. For the fecorid thing, or the Invocation ofGod by any Perfonal.Name, or by the conjunCtion of the di– fhntl: Names of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit to– gether, nothing occurs more frequently atnong them. Yea it is cmnmon to find in their \Vritings Prayers begun unto one Perfon, and ended in the natne of another ; yea begun unto Chrifl:, and clofed in the natne of his only be_g_otten Son : It being one and the fame Divine N-atnre that is calle~ on. Yea the School"' -men do gerierally deny that the Perfons of the holy Trinity? un~the . co?fideratio,rl of the f~nnal Rea– fen wh1ch 1s confbtunve of-the~ Perfonahty, are the fonnal ObjeCt and Term of Divine Worfhip; but in the v.rorfhip of one they are all worfhipped as one God over a11 bleffed for ever. See Aquin. 2 2. q. 8 1. a. 3. 4d prima, and q. 84· a. I. ad tertium. Alexand. .Alenfp. 3. q. 3o.m.1.a.3. _ · But yet although we may call on God - in and by the
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