only a prædicamental substance, but a metaphysical entity; as the most metaphysical men, who are sound in the faith, do honestly confess ! UTRUM HORUM. p. 82, 83. DIRECTIONS RELATIVE TO THE OBJECT OF WORSHIP; FROM AN EXHORTATION TO ALL CHRISTIAN PEOPLE TO ABSTAIN FROM From the Scriptures. "Thou, when thou prayest, pray to thy Father, who is is in secret, and thy Father, who seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly. After this manner, therefore, pray ye. Our Father who art in heaven." Matt. vi. 6-9. Luke ix. 2. "Jesus saith, the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father seeketh such to worship him." John iv. 23. See also John xiv. 13, 14. xv. 16. xvi. 23. "I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, From the Book of Common Prayer, &c. "The Catholic faith is this, that we worship One God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity." Athanasian Creed. "Then likewise the minister shall say, Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; Answer, As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.-Morning Service. "Above all things, ye must give most humble and hearty thanks to God the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, for the redemption of the world, &c." Communion Service. "It is very meet, right, and our bounden duty, that we should, at all times, and in all places, give thanks unto thee, O Lord! Almighty and everlasting God, who art one God, our Lord; not one only person, but three persons, in one substance. For that which we believe of the glory of the Fa ther, the same we believe of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, without any difference on inequality." Upon the Feast of Trinity. "Religious worship is to be given to God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and to him alone." The Assem bly's Confes. of Faith. ch. 21. "The second part of prayer is adoration, and it contains (1) A mention of his nature as God; and this includes his most original properties and perfections: his unity of es See Mark xiv. 36. Luke xxii. sence, that there is no other 42. xxiii. 34, 46. "And Jesus lift up his eyes and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me." John xi. 41.. "Now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say, Father save me from this hour? but for this cause came I unto this hour. Father glorify thy name." John xii. 27, 28. "Holy Father, keep through thine own name, those whom thou hast given me." John xvii. 11. See also John xvii. 1, 3, 5, 13. xxiv, 25. And Acts iv. 24, &c. "Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort, who comforteth us in all our tribulations." 2 Cor. i. 3. See also Eph. i. 3. "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to his abund ant mercy, hath begotten us again into a lively lope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead." 1 Pet. i. 3. God besides him: his incon. ceivable subsistence in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; which mystery of the Trinity is a most proper object of our adoration and wonder, since it so much surpasses our understanding."-Watts's Guide to Prayer, p. 6. "We must give honour to three persons in the godhead distinctly to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost." Henry's Method of Prayer. "Thou art the king of glory, O Christ. Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father." "We therefore pray thee to help thy servants, whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious blood. Make them to be numbered with thy saints in glory everlasting." Te Deum. "O God the Son, redeemer of the world, have mercy upon us miserable sinners. έσ According to the will of God, the Father, to whom be glory for ever and ever." Gal. i. 4, 5. "Now unto God, even our Father, be glory for ever and ever." Phil. iv. 10. "Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever." 1 Tim. i. 17. See also Mark vi. 13. Luke ii. xiv. Rom. i. 25. xi. 33, 36. xvi. 25, 27. 2 Cor. xi. 31. Eph. iii. 20, 21. 1 Tim. vi. 14, 15, 16. 1 Pet. v. 10, 11. Jude xxiv. 25. Rev. iv. 8, 11. vii. 11, 12. "Grace be to you and peace from God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ." Rom. i. 7. "Grace, mercy, and peace, from God, the Father, and Je. sus Christ our Lord." 1 Tim. i. 2. "Grace be with you, mercy and peace from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love." 2 John iii. "O God the Holy Ghost, proceeding from the Father and the Son, have mercy upon us miserable sinners. "O holy, blessed and glo. rious Trinity, three persons and one God, have mercy up. on us miserable sinners. "Whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood. By the mystery of the holy incarnation; by thy holy na tivity and circumcision; by thy baptism, fasting and tempta. tion; by thy agony and bloody sweat; by thy cross and passion; by thy precious death and burial; by thy glorious resurrection and ascension; and by the coming of the Holy Ghost. "Grace be unto you, and peace from him who is, and who was, and who is to come; and from the seven spirits, who are before the throne-and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the firstbegotten from the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth." Rev. i. 4, 5. See also Rom. xvi. 20, 24. 1 Cor. i. 3. 2 Cor. i. 2. xiii. 14. Gal. i. 3. vi. 18. Eph. i. 2. vi. 23, 24. Phil. i. 2. 23. Col. i. 2. iv. 18. Thess. i. 1. iii. 11, 12. 23, 28. 2 Thess. i. 2. 16, 17. iii. 5, 16, 18. Tim. i. 2, 18. iv. 22. Titus i. 4. iii. 15. Philem. iii. 25. Heb. xiii. 20, 25. 1 Pet. i. 2. v. 10, 14. 2 Pet. i. 2. Jude ii. Rev. xxii. 21. iv. V. ii. 2 of David have mercy upon us. Graciously hear us, O Christ; graciously hear us, O Lord Christ." Litany. "For thou only art holy, thou only art the Lord: thou only, O Christ, with the Holy Ghost, art most high in the glory of God the Father." Communion Service. A "Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, and our God in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, be honour and glory, dominion and praise, henceforth and for ever. men." Henry on Prayer. "Through Jesus Christ our Lord; to whom with thee, O Father, and thine Holy Spirit, be everlasting praises." Doddridge. "Jesus, my God, thy blood alone, Hath power sufficient to atone." Watts, Ps. 51. 2nd. pt. L. M. ver. 6. "To God the Father, God the Son, And God the Spirit, three in one, Be honour, praise, and glory given, By all on earth and all in hea ven." Watts's Doxology. |