PROPOSITION X. 157 tefufed them all, which I am fullypersuaded they will never be able to do. II. I think I ought here to mention again that which was hinted before, viz. That though the ascriptions of deity to the blessed Spirit are not written in scripture with half so much fre- quency or evidence, as those ascriptions of deity to the Son of God : Yet if the deity of the Son be well confirmed, that of the Holy Spirit will be readily granted by all. Every proof there- fore of the godhead of Christ may be counted a consequential scripture proof of the godhead of theHoly Ghost. A MORAL AR6UIVA$NT. Before I dismiss this proposition, I would ask leave to add one moral argument, to prove that the Son and Holy Spirit have real. communion in . the divine nature, as well as the Father. The greatest number of christians since the days of the apostles, the most religious, the most holy of men, and multi- tudes of glorious confessors and martyrs, have believed this doc- trine of the divinity of the Son and Spirit, and under the in- fluence of this belief have paid divine honours to them both : And this many of them have done with such concurring circumstances, that carry in them a good force of argument, viz. they have worshipped them as God. 1. After they have sought the knowledge of the truth with utmost diligence andprayer. 2. When they have-been in the holiest and most heavenly frames of spirit, and in their devoutest hours. 3. When they have been under the most sensible impressions of the love of the Fa- ther, and the Son, and under the most quickening influencesof the blessed Spirit himself. 4. In the devotionsOf a death bed, and in the songs and doxologies of martyrdom. Now can we suppose that, in such devout and glorious sea- sons as these are, God the Father should ever thus manifest his own love to souls that are degrading him by worshipping ano- ther god ? That Christ Jesusshould reveal himself in his dying love to souls that are practising idolatry, and worshipping him- self, instead of the true God ? Orcan we believe that the bles- sed Spirit should give his influences, and his consolations, to en- courage and assist such false worship, and himself assume these divine honours, if he had no title to godhead ? Or can we imagine that the true and gracious God, should-suffer such mul- titudes of holy souls to be deluded and given up, to believe a lie in. such an awful and important point, in their .moat devout mo- Meats, and in their. dying hour,?
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