Mark xii. 29. Hear, O Israel! the LORD our GOD is ONE LORD. xlvii. 1. Behold my SERVANT, whom I uphold: mine ELECT in whom my soul delighteth: I have put my spirit upon him. * John xvii. 3. Father! this is life eternal, that they might know thee the ONLY TRUE GOD, and Jesus Christ whom THOU hast sent. 1 Tim. ii. 5. There is ONE GOD: and one medi.. ator between GOD and MEN, the MAN CHRIST JESUS. Acts xvii. 24, 31. Gop that made the world and all things therein, the Lord of heaven and earth, hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in righteousness, by that MAN whom he hath ordained: whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that HE hath raised him from the dead. 1 Cor. viii. 5, 6. There be Gods many and Lords many; but to us there is but ONE GOD, THE FATHER; and one Lord Jesus Christ. Ephes. iv. 56. One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one GoD and FATHER of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. i. 17. The GOD of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory. i. 3. Blessed be the GOD and FATHER of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places [or things] in Christ. Philipp. i. 2. Grace be unto you and peace from GOD our FATHER, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. This text offers a complete refutation of the doctrine of the Trinity. 1 Cor. xv. 24. Then cometh the end, when he [Jesus] shall have delivered up the kingdom to GOD even the FATHER. Mark xiii. 32. Of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no not the angels which are in heaven,' neither the Son: but the FATHER. John xiv. 1. Ye believe in GoD: believe ALSO in me. Mark x. 18. Why callest thou ME good? There is none good, but ONE: that is Gov. John xiv. 28. MY FATHER is greater than I. v. 19. Verily I say unto you, the Son can do NOTHING of himself. viii. 40. Ye seek to kill me, a MAN that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God. xvii. 2. Thou hast GIVEN him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. 2 Peter i. 17. He received from GOD, the FATHER, honour and glory. Acts x. 38. How GoD anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the holy Ghost and with power, who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil: for GOD was WITH him. John x. 36. Him whom the FATHER hath SANCTIFIED, and sent into the world. Luke ii. 52. Jesus INCREASED in WISDOM and stature, and in favour both with God and Man. Hebrews v. 8. Though he were a Son, yet LEARNED HE OBEDIENCE, by the things which he suffered. ii. 10. It became him to MAKE the captain of their salvation PERFECT THROUGH SUFFERINGS. John xi. 41, 42. FATHER! I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always. Luke xiii. 33. It cannot be that A PROPHET perish out of Jerusalem. Acts iii. 22. For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A PROPHET shall the Lord your God raise up unto you, of your brethren, like unto me. Acts ii. 36. Know assuredly that God hath MADE that same Jesus whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. v. 31. Him hath God EXALTED with his right hand to be a PRINCE and a SAVIOUR. John xx. 17. I ascend unto my FATHER and your FATHER, and to my GoD and your GOD. 2 Thess. ii. 16, 17. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and GOD, EVEN OUR FATHER, comfort your hearts. Acts ii. 33. Jesus, being by the right hand of GOD EXALTED, and having received of the FATHER the promise of the holy Ghost, hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear. Acts i. 2. Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen. John v. 26. AS THE FATHER hath life in himself, so HATH HE GIVEN to the Son to have life in himself, and hath GIVEN HIM AUTHORITY to execute judgment also, because he is THE SON OF MAN. NOTES. NOTE 1, Page 4. There is no more ground for the belief of the actual personal existence of an Evil Being, than for that of the real existence of the hieroglyphical Serpent in Genesis; which Moses never represents as a superior being in that form, but simply as a serpent. The Jews borrowed their personified principle of evil from the Chaldæans they applied it to allegorize both moral and physical evil. Diseases were supposed to be inflicted by demons, improperly rendered devils. These were human ghosts, which had been the souls of wicked men; and not fallen angels, as in the modern scheme. The Angels who sinned," 2 Pet. ii. 4, considering the various import of the word Angels in Scripture, do not of necessity imply metaphysical beings. They have been thought to mean the messengers or spies sent by Moses into Canaan, who brought back a lying report, and were smitten by the plague: Numbers xiv. 37. But they are more probably the same description of persons as those called "the Sons of God," Gen. vi. 4; the sons of Seth, or true worshippers, whom Moses speaks of as intermarrying with "the daughters of men," or of idolaters; and whom Josephus (Antiquities of the Jews, b.i. ch. 3,) calls "Angels." From the connexion of the passage in Peter, it is clear that the "casting into hell," or, more properly, "the abyss," refers to the flood of Noah, and the bituminous lake of Sodom. The same connexion is found in Jude 6, respecting "the Angels who kept not their first estate :" they are therefore identified with the apostates from God, who perished under those judgments. |