354 Plecoeuo saitp. any Nation, Pf. 14-7. 20. It is therefore likely that fuch paffages in Heathens were inferted into their Books, by Chriftians, in a way of Pious Fraud, fuch as was anciently ufed. This Sacred Myfterp was intimated in the Old -Te- Jtament; Elobim in the plural, Created, Gen. r. i. Let us mall;. Man, faith God, Gen. I. 26: By the mord of the Lord were the Heavens made, and all the Hoft of them by the Spirit of his Mouth,_ PC 3 3. 6. Holy, body, holy is the Lord of Holis, Ifay 6, 3. The ancient Jewifb E.abbins (as Petrus Galatinus hach fhewed) embraced this Doerine. Rabbi Simeon on that in the Prophet, faith, Sanaus, hic eft Pater, Scinc7us, hic eft Filius, Santus, bic eft Spiritur Saniius: the three Middath, or Properties in Rabbinical Writers, are the three Perkins in the Godhead. And the Cabbalifts have thefe words, Pater Deus, Filins Deus, Spiritus San - ¿tus Deus, Tres in Vno, Vitus in Tribus. In the New- Teftament we have this Truth clearly laid down ; in the Baptifm of Chrift we have all the three Perlons appearing, The Father in a Voice, the Son in the Flefb, the Holy Ghoft in the Dove, Mat.3.16, i7. The Primitive Chriftians ufed to icy to any that doubted of the Trinity, Abi ad Jordanem & vide.bis, Go to Jordan and you will fee it. Chrift`Commands, That Bap - rifm fhould be In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft, Math. 28. 19. Or, as the Greek Article imports, In the Name of that Father, that Son, and that Holy Ghoft, which difcovered thctrifelvs at Chr'ifisBaptifm. There
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