that is the gift He that prayeth and he that offers up prayer are all but one incomprehensible being and therefore Christ saith of the Father and himself that they are one I and my Father are one Till we come to understand things thus we shall miss of the truth and run into a thousand errours Thus much for the first verse of the words The first thing to be considered in the second verse of the words is What earth is in which the Water Blood and Spirit witness Earth is the mixt and compounded state of Saints in which they live in this life which is an estate part of flesh and part of spirit part fleshly part spiritually in which state there is such a lusting and fighting of the spirit against flesh and flesh against the spirit that a Saint cannot do many times the things he would but is led captive into the law of sin The second thing to be considered in the second verse of the words is Who they are that bear witness on earth They are three the Spirit VVater and Blood But you will ask me VVhat the Spirit is what the VVater is and what the Blood is The Spirit is God and the Lord is that Spirit Now God is the Spirit as I said before in reference to the discovery of truth and leading into truth or he is called the Spirit in respect of his Omnipresency or because of its Invisibility a spirit cannot be seen The second thing to be spoken to is VVhat the VVater is It is that which came out of the side of Christ when one of the souldiers with a spear pierced his side The third thing to be spoken to is VVhat the Blood is that beareth witness in earth It was that likewise which issued out of Christ's side See both these in Joh. 19. 34. The next thing to be considered in the words is VVhat the VVitnesses testimonies in earth are and in this there are these three things to be considered 1 VVhat the witness of the Spirit is 2 VVhat the witness of VVater is 3 VVhat the witness of Blood is 4 How they witness The first thing to be inquired into is VVhat the witness of the Spirit is or what it testifieth It testifies of Christ See Joh. 15. 26. But when the Comforter is come whom I will send unto you from the Father even the Spirit of truth which proceedeth from the Father he shall testifie of me and make known me I say The Spirit testifies of Christ it witnesseth Christ to the soul 1 It testifies of the sufferings of Christ 2 Of the glory that should follow those sufferings First It testifieth the sufferings of Christ it witnesseth them to the soul it makes known what Christ hath suffered and the fruit of those sufferings and witnesseth the truth thereof to the soul 1 Pet. 1. 11. Secondly It testifies of that glory which should follow those sufferings VVhat is the glory That glory which Jesus Christ is in at the right hand of the Father VVhat is that See in Joh. 17. 5. And now O Father glorifie me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was which was with his own self Now the Spirit testifies of that glory and witnesseth it to the soul There is always glory following after affliction and the more affliction the more glory Our light afflictions which are but for a moment are not worthy to be compared with that glory which is to be revealed in us All which the Spirit testifies The next thing to be considered is VVhat VVater witnesseth It witnesseth mystically Sanctification Purity VVashing Cleansing doing away sin The third thing to be considered is VVhat Blood witnesseth It witnesseth Salvation Redemption Justification Life though in a mystical sence Object But may some say How can VVater witness Sanctification washing cleansing of the soul And how can Blood witness Salvation Justification and the like seeing the VVater and Blood of Christ was long since spilt upon the ground Answ. I shall answer this by asking another Question How did Abel being dead speak Rev. 11. 4. The fourth thing to be inquired into is How the Spirit VVater and Blood witness They witness mediately that is by means The last thing to be inquired into is How the Spirit VVater and Blood agree in one Thus They witness to one thing what the Spirit witnesseth that VVater witnesseth and what VVater witnesseth Blood witnesseth and what VVater and Blood witness that the Spirit witnesseth which is love If it be thus Then this may serve to inform us of this truth That God hath not left us without three VVitnesses in earth God would not have us be without three by reason that he tenders us so much he knows our frailties that we are ready to be set upon by Satan and to sink in our Spirits for want of VVitnesses he hath given us three to confirm us and establish us in our mixt state of flesh and blood lest we should be discouraged and so faint away in our spirits because of those corruptions and flesh which are within us he hath given us his own Spirit and his own VVater and Blood to bear witness to our souls of loving kindness and mercy sanctification pardon of sin righteousness and the like If it be thus Then do not say you shall not be Sanctified and made clean VVater witnesseth Sanctification and Purity to the soul Do not say you are not nor shall be justified that your sins are not pardoned Blood speaks it that your sins are pardoned and you justified If it be thus Then set to your seals to that which the Spirit VVater and Blood testifie the not receiving what they witness is the cause of abundance of trouble and sinkings of the spirit Listen therefore what VVater and Blood or rather the Spirit in water and blood witnesseth and it will force you to submit to its testimonies and those that have received their testimonies have set to their seals that God is true CHAP. IV. Some sweet Discoveries of those glorious things that are spoken of the city of God out of Psal. 87. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. Vers 1. His foundation is in the holy mountains 2. The Lord loveth the gates of Sion more then all the dwellings of Jacob 3. Glorious things are spoken of thee O city of God Selah 4. I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me Behold Philistia and Tyre with Ethiopia this man was born there 5. And of Zion it shall be said This and that man was born in her and the Highest himself shall establish her 6. The Lord shall count when he writeth up the people that this man was born there Selah 7. As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there all my springs are in thee THere are in the first verse of this Psalm these things to be considered First what is meant by foundation here Secondly whose this foundation is Thirdly
the blood of the Sacrifice and of Sprinkling See 2 Chron. 4. 8. Exod. 29. 20. Levit. 4. 6. Levit. 9. 8 9. Or the Bowls in the letter were those in which they put fine flour mingled with oil for a meat-offering See Numb. 7. 13 19 25 31 37 43 49 55 61 67 73 79. The Bowls in the spiritual interpretation are the Saints in which the blood of sprinkling is The pots in the Lords house shall be like the Bowls before the Altar in this respect that is to say for multitude as it was in the letter see 2 Chron. 4. 8. He made also ten tables and placed them in the temple five on the right side and five on the left and he made an hundred basins that is bowls of gold Now the pots were not so many It speaks the manifold discoveries of God that shall be in the later days to his people Or it speaks this that is to say The multiplicity of spiritual services that shall be offered to God in the later days The things that are to be enquired into in the last verse of the words are these following First what Judah and Jerusalem are Secondly what every pot in Judah and Jerusalem is Thirdly how and in what sence it shall be holiness to the Lord of hosts Fourthly what is meant by the Canaanite Fifthly when these things shall come to pass The first thing to be spoken to is What Judah and Jerusalem are Judah was one of the twelve Tribes see Revel. 7. 5. Hierusalem is the Saints of the most High the Lambs wife The second thing to be spoken to is What every pot in Judah and Jerusalem is It is the same as the pots in the Lords house are Every pot that is every discovery of Christ that purifies every Sacrifice and makes it fit to be offered up to God The third thing to be spoken to is How and in what sence every pot in Judah and Jerusalem shall be Holiness to the Lord The meaning is It shall be of a holy use to the Lord of hosts that is of Armies But of what use To purifie and make fit Sacrifices to be put up to him Or it may be taken thus every discovery of Christ shall be holy to the Lord that is there shall be written upon every discovery Holiness for those are truest discoveries that have Holiness written upon them Sclah And all they that Sacrifice shall come and take of them that is of the discoveries and seethe therein they shall boyl their Sacrifices in the discoveries and manifestations of Christ and so make them pure Sacrifices to be offered up to God Mal. 1. 11. The fourth thing to be spoken to is What is meant by the Canaanite The Canaanite may be meant the Merchant he seems to have a special relation to the abuse of Merchandising and selling which was used in the Temple See Joh. 2 15. And when he had made a scourge of smallcords he drave them all out of the temple and the sheep and the oxen and poured out the changers mony and overthrew the tables Mat. 21. 2. Or by the Canaanite may be meant the unclean person See Isa. 35. 6. And an high-way shall be there and a way and it shall be called the way of holiness the unclean shall not pase over it See Rev. 2. 27. And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth neither whatsoever worketh abomination or maketh a lye God will so purifie his people that there shall be no unclean thing in them but they shall be holy and unblameable before him The last thing to be spoken to is When all these things shall come to pass and that is In that day What is meant by that day The day of Gods coming See Zech. 14. the latter part of vers 5. Then shall these Prophecies be fullfilled when Jesus Christ shall appear the second time without sin to salvation If it be thus Then this may discover what shall be in that day there shall be holiness written upon every thing we shall see somewhat of God in every thing even in the meanest things And those things that have been made use of against the Lord shall be turned into an holy use they shall be holiness unto the Lord The pots in the Lords house shall be like the bowls before the Altar there shall be multiplicities of discoveries of Christ that is abundance of discoveries of Christ in the latter days Every pot in Jerusalem shall be holiness unto the Lord there shall be holiness written upon every discovery of God they shall come and boyl their Sacrifices in these discoveries of God there shall no Merchant no unclean thing be in Zion in Jerusalem but all shall be pure and nothing shall hurt nor destroy in Gods holy mountain So that Zion shall be a peaceable and pure estate If it be so This may serve to discover what Zion the Lords house is It is not a Stonewalled house such as your meeting-places are the Lords house is his People in whom he dwells the the foundation of this house is Christ it is founded upon a sure Rock that the winds and storms of corruptions and temptations cannot shake it The Lords house is a spiritual building built by himself to be the habitation of himself by the Spirit If it be thus Then this may serve to inform us of those pure Sacrifices that shall be offered up to God in the latter days Now our Sacrifices are full of dross and mixture of somewhat of our own but then they shall be clean that which shall make them clean shall be those great and large discoveries of God that then will be Now we are troubled and perplexed that we cannot offer up better Sacrifices then we do to God that we cannot worship him as we would do in Spirit and in truth but then we shall worship in the pureness of the Spirit If it be so Then this may serve to discover true discoveries of Christ from false VVhat a many rotten pretended discoveries of Christ we and others have had O how we have entertained falshood instead of truth and lived upon it But a true discovery of Christ hath this Motto written upon it HOLINESS TO THE LORD If your discoveries of God bring not along with them holiness they are delusions of Satan if any discoveries of God come with holiness engravened upon them receive them If it be so Then this may serve to overthrow that doctrine that is newly sprung up which is that there shall not be Sacrifices offered up to God in the new Jerusalem-state That there shall be it is cleer from what I have said Onely there shall be this difference more purer Sacrifices shall be offered up then then now there are then shall the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem be more pure and pleasant to the land And that the words here speak of the new Jerusalem-state it appears by the last verse There shall be no more the
him while Joseph made himself known to his brethren And he wept aloud and the Egyptians and house of Pharoah heard And Joseph said unto his brethren I am Joseph Doth my Father yet live And his brethren could not answer him for they were troubled at his presence And Joseph said to his brethren Come neer me I pray you And they came neer I am Joseph your brother whom ye sold into Egypt This Joseph is a Type of Christ and his discovering himself to his brethren is the manner that Christ takes to reveal himself to his brethren Christ cannot many times refrain himself he cannot forbear but discover and reveal himself to his brethren that have sold him into Egypt he must discover himself to his brethren as Joseph did as Joseph wept to see his brethren so doth Jesus Christ to see his brethren he weeps aloud to see us yea he weeps for joy to see his brethren before he discovers himself to them and afterwards he saith I am Ioseph I am your Ioseph one of your fellow-brethren Doth my Father yet live in you When Christ speaks thus to the soul the Soul cannot answer him because it is troubled at his presence And as Ioseph said to his brethren Come neer so Christ bids us come neer We are ready when we have a discovery of Christ to stand afar off and to be afraid of him and then Christ saith Come neer as if he should say Why stand you a loof off Come neer and to encourage them to come neer he speaks more plainly to them now I am Joseph your brother whom ye sold into Egypt but before he said I am Joseph onely and then the soul comes neer to Christ O how sweet this is Christ shall not no will not onely reveal himself but he can do no otherwise he cannot refrain himself and therefore Christ saith unto them Be not grieved nor angry with your selves that ye sold me into Egypt for God did send me before you to preserve life See how Christ endeavours to take away all grief and anger from his brethren by telling them that God sent him into Egypt to preserve life Selah So that confess him to be in you though you do not feel him within you yet if you believe he is in you you may confess him But what is it to confess him To confess him is to acknowledge him come in the flesh and come within you 1 Joh. 4. 2. Hereby know yee the Spirit of God every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God 1 Joh. 4. 15. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God God dwels in him and he in God Confessing there is acknowledging Phil. 2. 11. And that every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father There is the same word So that to confess him is to acknowledge him How Thus thou art within me I do subscribe to the truth of it that it is so even so But yet I cannot confess him saith the soul The word of faith is in thy mouth to make thee to confess that Christ is within thee and to say It is true Lord as I have believed thou art within me There is the acknowledgement of the soul There is not onely a confession of the mouth required of the soul but a belief of the heart likewise that God raised Christ from the dead which I do intend a little to speak to Dead here is to be understood grave hell that state that Jesus Christ was in of whom it was said Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell neither wilt thou suffer thy holy One to see corruption Psal. 16. 10. It is not enough to confess Christ to be within us but to believe in our hearts that God raised him from the dead if we would be saved our Faith must reach further then Christ in us it must reach to the Father also See 1 Pet. 1. 21. Who by him do believe in God that raised him from the dead and gave him glory that our faith and hope might be in God See further in Act. 13. 32 33 34. And we declare unto you glad tidings how that the promise which was made to our Fathers God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children in that he hath raised up Iesus again as it is also written in the second Psalm Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead now no more to return to corruption he said I will give him the sure mercies of David A faith that saves that is a faith that is accompanyed with Salvation is in God as one that raised Christ from the dead for there is in Gods raising Christ Remission of sins and justification from all things as sin iniquity and the like from which we could not be justified by the Law of Moses Act. 13. 38 39. And besides to us there is an imputation of righteousness which was imputed to Abraham if we believe on him that raised up Iesus our Lord from the dead who for this very end was raised from the dead that is to say for our justification Rom. 4. 24 25. God would have us believe in him as one that raised Christ from the dead because in Gods raising Christ he raised us through the faith of the operation of God who hath raised him from the dead and the uncircumcision of our flesh hath he quickened together with him having forgiven us all trespasses blotting out the hand-writing of ordinances that was against us which was contrary to us and took it out of the way nayling it to the cross and having spoyled principalities and powers he made a shew of them openly triumphing over them all A glorious slaughter of all our enemies is to be seen in Gods raising Christ from the dead And then that in Eph. 2. 5 6. In Gods raising Christ we though we were dead in sins yet were quickened together with him and were raised up together with him and made to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Iesus which was Gods rich mercy and great love and his end in it was That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness towards us in Christ Iesus Eph. 2. 4 7. Now God many times suffers us to have the sentence of death in our spirits he suffers us to be pressed out of measure beyond strength insomuch that we despair of life that we should not trust in our selves but in God that raised the dead Quest But you will ask me First How God raised Christ from the dead Secondly What it is to be believe it Answ. For the first how God raised Christ It was 1. By the glory of the Father Rom. 6. 4 9 2. By the Spirit Rom. 8. 11. 3. By his mighty power Eph. 1. 20. The second thing to be enquired into is What it is to believe that God
and of the earth and of the sea and of every thing in the earth and in the sea that belongs to the Old Creation for it is the proper work of God as he is the Father to Beget and Create Secondly He is called the Father with respect to the New Creation he is the Father as he is the begetter of Christ Psal. 2. 7. and as he is the begetter of souls to himself by the Word of truth in the New Creation James 1. 18. as he is the begetter of us to a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead 1 Pet. 1. 3. and as he is the begetter of us to himself by the Gospel 1 Cor. 4. 15. He is called the Word first with respect to the Old Creation likewise secondly with respect to the New Creation also First He is called the Word with respect to the Old Creation as he is the thing begotten in the heavens and in the earth and in the sea and in every thing in the heavens earth and sea for there is nothing in them but holds forth the power and wisdom of God which is Christ see 1 Cor. 1. 24. For it is the proper work of the Son to be begotten in the Old Creation Secondly He is called the Word with respect to the New Creation as he is the thing begotten in us in the New Creation as he is the life power and hope of glory within us Col. 1. 27. as he is our wisdom justification sanctification redemption and the like For it is the proper work of the Son to be begotten in us He is called the Spirit with respect to two things First as he is a discoverer and revealer of Truth and Glory to us and in us in the Old Creation there is abundance of Truth and Glory to be seen there which we see not nor know every thing of the Old Creation sets forth more or less glory The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his handy-work And the devil keeps us from looking after the glory of God that shines forth in the things of the world Now it is the onely work of God as he is the Spirit to discover and reveal that glory and truth that lies hid in every thing in the world Secondly he is the Spirit as he is the revealer and discoverer of truth and glory in the New Creation there is no glory to be seen without the Spirit and there is no knowing of truth and glory but by the Spirit We may seek to finde it out and labour and weary out our spirits and yet not finde it It is not the joyning of every mans Learning together can finde it out Truth indeed will put all learned Rabbies to a non-plus And so for the Glory of God it is unsearchable men cannot finde it out though they joyn all their heads together Where is the wise where is the scribe where is the disputer of this world Tell me what is glory of God and what is Truth You cannot tell me for no man knows the minde of God but God Now it is the onely work of God as he is the Spirit to reveal and make known Truth and Glory to us and in us Again he is called the Spirit as he is the leader of the poor creature into Truth and Glory in the Old Creation Though God as the Spirit discovers Truth and Glory to us in the Old Creation yet Friends we cannot be led into it but by the Spirit though we see never so much Truth and Glory shine forth in the Old Creation yet we cannot enjoy it without the Spirit the Spirit is that which leadeth us into the enjoyment of it which is sweeter then the seeing of it Howbeit when he the Spirit of truth is come he will guide you into all truth for he shall not speak of himself but whatsoever he shall hear that shall he speak and he will shew you things to come Joh. 16. 13. Secondly he is the Spirit as he is the guider of poor creatures into Truth and Glory in the New Creation Friends if there be any Truth and Glory that you possess the Spirit guided you into it for we are so ready to go out of the way of Truth and Glory though it be discovered to us that unless we had some one to guide us into Truth and Glory we should miss of the enjoyment of it though we see it The second thing to be spoken to in the first verse of the words is this What heaven is in which the Witnesses bear record Heaven here is the uncompounded and unmixt state of Saints it is such an estate of glory in which Saints shall be as shall not be mixed or compounded with flesh That state which we are now in it is a mixt state of Flesh and Spirit but that state which we shall be in in heaven is a pure state of Spirit and Glory The third thing to be enquired into is What the Witnesses record in heaven is In which we shall consider four things 1. What the Father's report is 2. What the Word's report is 3. What the holy Ghost's report is 4. How they witness For the first what the Father's report is The Father's report is somewhat concerning the Son What is that See in 1 Joh. 5. 9 10 11 12. If we receive the witness of men the witness of God is greater for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself and he that believeth not God hath made him a lyer because he believeth not the report that God gave of his Son And this is the report that God hath given to us eternal life and this life is in his Son He that hath the Son hath life and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life See that in Joh. 5. 32. There is another that beareth witness of me and I know that the witness which he beareth of me is true See verse 37. And the Father himself which hath sent me hath born witness of me But what doth the Father witness of Christ See in Matth. 3. 16 17. And Jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting upon him And lo a voice from heaven saying This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased That which the Father testifies of Christ is That he is the Messiah the Son of God and that he is well pleased with his Son and so with us in his Son Then that in Joh. 8. 18. The Father that sent me beareth witness of me What is that See vers 12. Then spake Jesus again unto them saying I am the light of the world he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life God beareth record of Christ that he
is the light of the world that enlightens the world and that he that is a follower of Christ shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life that is life's light that is he shall have that light that is accompanied with life See that in Heb. 7. 17. For he testifieth Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek The Father testifieth of Christ that he is an everlasting Priest to make intercession for us and to take away our sins Who is made not after the Law of a carnal commandment but after the power of an endless life that is unlooseable and indissolvable life The second thing to be enquired into is What the Word's report is 1. It beareth witness of the Father 2. Of it self First It beareth witness of the Father that he sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world it testifieth what it hath seen and heard in the Father and from the Father Joh. 3. 32. The Word testifieth of that good will love and grace which it hath seen and heard to be in the Father towards the worst of sinners the Word beareth witness of the Father by its works that it did that the Father sent him into the world to finish that great work of Redemption and Reconciliation See Joh. 18. 37. To this end was I born and for this cause came I into the world that I should bear witness unto the truth Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice Secondly It testifieth of it self See Joh. 8. 14 18. Jesus answered and said unto them Though I bear record of my self yet my record is true for I know whence I came and whither I go I am one that beareth witness of my self that I came from the Father and go to the Father Object But may some say Christ saith in Joh. 5. 3. If I bear witness of my self my witness is not true so that Christ bearing witness of himself is not true Answ. To this I answer If Christ bear witness of himself alone that is without the Father and not as one sent from the Father then indeed his witness is nottrue otherwise it is The third thing to be enquired into is What the holy Ghost's report is The holy Ghost's report see in Heb. 10. 15. Whereof the holy Ghost also is a witness to us of which see in vers. 10. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all See likewise vers. 12. This man after he offered one sacrifice for sins for ever sate down on the right hand of God from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstoole See vers 14. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified All which the holy Ghost testifieth And that in Act. 5. 32. For we are his witnesses of these things and so is also the holy Ghost whom God hath given to them that obey him What doth the holy Ghost witness See in vers 30 31. The God of our Fathers raised up Jesus whom ye slew and hanged on a tree Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour for to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins of which the holy Ghost is a witness Now the holy Ghost beareth witness by cloven tongues that Christ is exalted See Act. 2. 3 4 33. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire and it sate upon each of them And they were all filled with the holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted and having received of the Father the promise of the holy Ghost he hath shed forth this which you now see and hear The fourth thing to be inquired into is How the Father Word and holy Ghost witness They witness immediately that is without means The next thing to be inquired into is How the Father Word and holy Ghost are one They are one in substance in being they are one pure essence and person He doth not say They agree in One but Are One If it be thus Then this may serve to discover what these three Witnesses in Heaven are they are the Father Word and holy Ghost three immediate true and strong Witnesses It is written in the Law that the testimony of two witnesses is true much more the testimony of three What greater testimony can there be in Heaven then the testimony of three the Father bearing testimony of the Son and the Son of the Father and the holy Ghost of both all three witnessing grace and love to our spirits that we are theirs and they ours Job saith Also now behold my witness is in heaven speaking of the Father Son and holy Ghost in unity and my record is on high that is in the high places Job 16. 19. It shall be established for ever as the moon and as a faithful witness in heaven Selah speaking of Davids Throne So Psa. 37. The witnesses in Heaven are such as are faithful Now a faithful witness will not lye Prov. 14. 5 25. If it be so Then desire God to open the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony in heaven to you Rev. 15. 5. It is said when the Temple of God was opened in heaven there was seen in the Temple the Arke of his Testament and there were lightnings and voices and thunderings and an earthquake and great hail Rev. 11. 19. Friends when God comes to open his Temple in Heaven then we shall see the Ark of his Testament and lightenings and voices and thunders and an earthquake and great hail fall upon the man of sin in us If it be so Then this may serve to discover what the mystery of the Father Son and holy Ghost or Spirit is That they are three and yet one one and yet three that the Father is one the Son another and the holy Ghost another and yet the same God variously come forth So that Unity brancheth forth it self into Variety and Variety into Unity the Father is not limited to Unity but spreads forth himself into Diversiâ—y If it be so Then this may serve to discover the vanity and blasphemy of those that hold that Christ and the Spirit are meer Creatures and not the most high God For it is cleer from what hath been spoken that they are the most high God in Unity and the Father Son and Spirit differ not but in their several makings forth all are but one eternal wise immortal and invisible Being And the reason why people fall into such gross absurdities is because they are ignorant of this mystery He that sendeth and he that is sent He that gave the holy Ghost and the holy Ghost that was given He that speaketh of himself and he that speaketh not of himself He that teacheth and he that is taught He that gives and he that receiveth He that is the giver and he