s`1e.0. Tfl F. ARIAN INVITED TO OitTÀODOX FAITA. As the chief faculties of our souls are themind and will, or rather a power of knowing, and a power of acting, so God seems to have revealed himselfto tit as indnedwith two divine faculties, bis Word or Wisdom, andhis Spirit, or efficient power. It is by this word, and this spirit, that he is represented in scripture as managing the great concerns ofthe creation, providence, redemp- tion, and salvation : And these three, viz. God the Father, hit Word, and his Spirit, are held forth to us in scripture as one God, even as the soul of Iiian, his mind, and his will, are one spiritual being. Now though the soul be the nobler part in man, though the brightest, the fairest, and most correspondent resem blances of God, are bórtotved from the soul, yet when we consi- der the terms Which are used to esprést the sacred Trinity, st well as the divine essence, we find theln borrowed from the-body, as well as from the sent of man ; and probably this was done also, that the lowest capacities anong men might attain some idea of theft]. The first person hi the Trinity is called the Father, which is a name given him as he is the frost origin, spring and Crerftot of all things, as he is the former of the human soul and bödy of 8nr Lord Jesus Christ his Son, and as he is represented is the prime Agent, employing his Word, and his Spirit, in the great afltairs of creation, providence, redemption and salvation. Nora' this term Father is evidently derived from some reserdlílance whichhe bears to human ature, or mankind, in the hotly, as Ankh as in the soul. Ifwe consider the se fond person in the Trinity under fhë characterof the Son, this is apparently borrowed froth niáñkiridt rn the'same manner. The term Logos, which denotes the second Person in the-Trinity, abstracted from flesh and blood, signifies both reason and word: And thereibte we may suppose the sa èred analogy borrowed both from the body, and from the soul Of man. It it borrowed from the soul of man, as Logos signifies reason ; frein the body of man, as it signifies a word ; or fron' bodyand soul together, as it signifies an external word, or speech manifesting internal wisdom or reason. In the same manner the term Spirit, which denotes the third of the sacred Three, both in Latin; Greek, and IlebreW,- signify the breath ; it signifies also vital activity,* and it signifies -' an intelligent principle. And therefore We may supposethe sa erect analogy, and use of this Word, to be derived both from the body and the sett' of man. It is derived from the soul, as it sig- nifies an intelligent principle of 'action ; it is derived from t e * The terni spirit, in otherlanguages, as well asin English, signieespower,; igour and vital activity. It is so taken in several places of scripture: I need, cite no more than,"Jciin vi. 63. It'is the spirit that guirkeueth, the,JIesh pvftitetA no7Gtiry: The words that I pent meta you, they ara Pit is, and Sr ly soi life.
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