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Hagnelion jechidatho ruahh turak Jehovah ehhad. Or, Eye-salve recommended to the world in a short essay, occasion'd by the sight of a discourse set forth since the Kings injunctions, call'd, Some considerations concerning the Trinity.
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Illustrious Prototype of Heavenly Wights or Angels Is it ask'd why I answer because as the Son is call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Only-begotten one to distinguish him from men who are created Sons so is the Holy Ghost call'd with three dictinctive Articles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Spirit The Holy of The God to distinguish him as it seems to me from Created Angels who are call'd by St. Paul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 only and in their nature are such If so it be not why are they call'd Ruchoth i. e. Spirits as the Holy Ghost is call'd a Spirit Why are they said to be Gibbore coaâ—h great in Power and Strength as He the power of the Highest And why Elohym mighty Powers for so are they call'd too and by this Stratagem I conceive Sc fallacia aequivocationis did Satan deceive Eve telling her that She should be like Elohijm meaning by 't like himself and his forlorn Partners the fall'n Elohijm whereas she thought of none else but Jehovah Elohijm counting that she should be more like her God than she was before so by that means was deceived In short Whatsoever sort or kind of Persons the Son and the Holy Ghost may be thought to be they are God for being in Unity with the Divine Substance by which they have all the Noble and Supereminent Attributes of the Father over and above the Communicable ones which meer men and Angels have and these being as the Taches of the Curtains of the Tabernacle of the most High they are One most High God together with the Father And here now I freely profess that if the Papists could argue for their Hypothesis of Transubstantiation so rationally as I have done for this Mystery of Mysterys I would not seperate for that at least from their Communion But tho' I can easily conceive that the Body of Christ can be present to Beleivers in the Sacrament Mediante Spiritu Sancto that is to say Spiritually just as he is present as Head to his Mistical Body the Church the Holy Ghost dwelling in him and the Members thereof for which I except not so much against the Lutherans who say indeed that the Body is Vbiquitary but say withall 't is Supernaturally or illocally as the Holy Ghost makes it be yet since I cannot conceive how Christ's natural Body should be every where or in all parts and places of the Church and be whole and intire in all such parts and places they of the Roman perswasion must pardon me if I except against Them notwithstanding the pretence of Tradition so much urg'd for it and I cannot sufficiently admire at Mounsier Malebranch for that having laid down his Excellent Rule not to grant a full Assent to any thing whilst Reason Checks yet himself reluctante ratione gives Assent to the Doctrine of Transubstantiation upon such Tradition as is not Ancient much less Apostolical Is he a Protestant in this point if not it must be Interest or Fear that sways him That Christ's Body is present in the Sacrament I sincerely beleive 't is what the Martyrs of our Church before they suffer'd acknowledged freely in their Disputes with Cox Oglethorp c. yea they said Ipsissimum corpus Christi est in Sacrimento Eucharistiae as appears in Dr. Willet's Century's but then they added still that the Modus is Spiritualis and is it not true this it is and we must take heed of saying otherwise tho' the Definitions of the Counsil of Trent for the Capernaitical way are in nowise to be allow'd For if the Church be the Body of Christ because the Holy Ghost is with it and in it why should not the bread together with the wine as the New-Testament Shechinah be the Body One the other the Blood of Christ for the Holy Ghosts being with Him and with the Signs and Symbols at once is the Church the Mystical Living Body of Christ for such reason as Consisting of living Wights living Members why then should not the Sacrament after the like manner be the Mystical Dead Body of Christ as by liveless Elements represented such an Vbiquity of Christ's Body if the Lutherans are for such change of the Elements if the Papist will agree to I am heartily with Them and as the Jews call'd the Paschal Lamb the Body so will I call the bread I eat at the Sacrament the Body too even of Christ for Mystically or Spiritually it is so and without making every 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Father 's a Dogma as they of Rome do we may do it well and truly enough And Here I shut up hoping that this Eye-Salve of mine which for truths sake and with perfect Charity I have presum'd to offer to the world will be accepted by it because 't is wholely Compounded of Scripture and Ancient Records going no further then Revelation lead's within which Bounds I 've taken care to keep as my Duty is For secret things belong to the Lord but things Reveal'd only to us and our Children and I humbly acknowledge Let Arians flout at the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as they please that the manner of the Son's Generation and of the Holy Ghost's proceeding a Patre Filioque as not reveal'd are above mine and as I beleive all others Comprehension It is as Usual as 't is pious to Conclude Discourses of this kind with Prayer Therefore with hearty good wishes to all whose hands this little somewhat shall fall into I shall do the like adding this short Prayer following and Recommending it to the Devotion of such as are disposed to use it O Almighty God and most merciful Father in Jesus Christ most humbly I beseech thee for thy Mercys sake and for that great lover of Souls sake thy Only Begotten Son in whom thou art well pleased to open the Eyes of all those among us who have imbib'd false Notions of thy most Holy Faith that all Scandals being removed and cast out of the Church and perfect Charity planted in it Heresy and Schism may be put an end to amidst thy People and also that Millions of Thousands according to the Blessing on Rebecca of Jews Turks Heathens Infidels may come into thy Holy Church and being made One Flock together with us Under the One great Shephard of the Sheep may obtain the End of the Hope of all the Faithful even the Salvation of their Souls and at the last Day rise out of the dust to Sing with Angels and Saints everlasting Halleluijahs to Thee O Holy Father with thy Son and the Holy Ghost One God blessed for evermore Amen These Three are One. Father Jehovah Son Jehovah H. Ghost Jehovah Je is the sign of a Proper Name Proper Names are of Persons Hovah is that Necessary Being which is the Father 's Originally the Son and Holy Ghost are God for being Consubstantial or in Unity with the Substance of the Father which substance being but one they are all Three One God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉