LETTER XXIII.
“Howbeit when He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth.”
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We have a just right to record the deliverances which the Most High God has wrought out for us. I have, in my humble degree, done so; and although it may incur the displeasure of many, I could not avoid it. I consider such acknowledgments a part of the glory due to God. Hence the promise “I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.” And I must also acquaint you with a few more of these great deliverances which I have experienced by his grace, in leading me from the paths of death to the fountain of life. I can never be sufficiently thankful that he has opened to me the law of the wise, that I might escape from the snares of death, which I consider consist in opposition to God’s revealed truths. In my last I informed you of deliverance from the shackles of Arminianism; and in a former letter, from the dreadful heresy of denying the godhead and personality both of the dear Redeemer and the Holy Spirit. But though delivered, I was, and am frequently beset by the enemies of the doctrine of the adorable Trinity in Unity. This has often grieved me sorely, especially in seasons of weakness, when satan, unbelief and carnal reason seemed to triumph in my mind. The glorious, holy and sublime doctrine of the Trinity, in the essential Unity, is clearly revealed in the word of God, and without attempting to comprehend, it is enough for us to believe. After I had been much perplexed in my mind, I bless God that he ever condescended to open the subject satisfactorily, and as he was pleased to use means for this purpose: the best I have ever seen, and the most conclusive, is the book I have already mentioned, the excellent “Jones, on the Catholic Doctrine of the Trinity,” and by his masterly comparisons of one Scripture with another, he has clearly proved that point, by shewing that the Unity of the Sacred Three is maintained in the sacred names, attributes and acts of the Sacred Three.
Isaiah, xliv. 24. “I am the Lord that maketh all things, that stretcheth forth the heavens alone, that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself.”
Psalm, xxxiii. 6. “By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth—the spirit of his mouth.”
Therefore the Father, with the word and spirit, are the alone, Lord and Creator of all things.
It has been proved, again and again, that the word Lord, when printed in capital letters, always signifies Jehovah.
Deut. vi. 4. “The Lord our God is one Jehovah.”
Jeremiah, xxiii, 6. “This is the name whereby he shall be called, Jehovah our righteousness; so is the Spirit also.”
Ezekiel, viii. 1, 3. “The Lord Jehovah put forth the form of an hand, and took me up, and the Spirit lifted me up.”
Therefore the Father, Son and Spirit are the one Jehovah; they are three persons, yet have but one name and nature.
Matthew, xv. 31. “The multitude glorified the God of Israel.”
Luke, xvi. 17. “The children of Israel shall return to the Lord their God, and he shall go before them.”
2 Samuel, xxiii. 23. “The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and the Rock of Israel said unto me.”
Therefore the Trinity in Unity is the God of Israel.
Deut. vi. 16. “Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.”
1 Cor. x. 9. “Neither let us tempt Christ.”
Acts, v. 9. “How is it that ye have agreed to tempt the Spirit of the Lord?”
Here the whole Trinity is represented as tempted and visited.
The mind and will of God is the mind and will of a Trinity in Unity.
1 Cor. ii. 14. “Who hath known the mind of God.”
Ibid. “We have the mind of Christ.”
Rom. xxvii. “He that searcheth the hearty knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit.”
1 Thes. iv. 3. “This is the will of God.”
Acts, xxii. 14. “The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will.”
This is meant of Christ and of his will. Acts, ix. 15, 16.
2 Peter, xxi. “Prophecy came not in old times by the will of men, but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.”
The power of God is the power of the Trinity in Unity.
Eph. iii. 7. “The grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.”
2 Cor. xii. 9. “That the power of Christ may rest upon me.”
Rom. xv. 19. “Signs and wonders by the power of the Spirit of God.”
TRUE.
“He that sent me is true.”
“These things saith he that is holy, he that is true.”
“It is the spirit that beareth witness, because the spirit is truth.”
HOLY.
“For thou only art holy.”
“But ye denied the Holy One.”
“Ye have an unction from the Holy one, the anointing.”
OMNIPRESENT.
“Do I not fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord.”
“The fulness of him (Christ) that filleth all in all.”
“Whither shall I go from thy Spirit; if to heaven, thou art there, or hell, thou art there also.”
LIFE.
“Love the Lord thy God, for he is thy life.”
“When Christ, who is our life, shall appear.”
“The spirit is life.”
“The Trinity in Unity, made all mankind.”
“The Lord he is God, he it is that hath made us.”
“By him (Christ) were all things made.”
“The Spirit of God hath made me.”
RESURRECTION OF CHRIST.
“God hath raised up the Lord, and shall raise us up by his own power.”
“Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
“Being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit.”
LEADING.
“I am the Lord thy God, which leadeth thee by the way.”
“He (Christ) calleth his own by name and leadeth them out.”
“As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.”
SANCTIFICATION.
“Sanctified by God the Father.”
“He that sanctifieth, and they who are sanctified, are all of one.”
“Being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.”
I might quote many more Scriptures to prove this very interesting subject, and produce a thousand arguments, but if they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead: it is no small mercy to believe, and receive the truth in the love of it, and to be fully persuaded in our own minds, of the truth, as it is in Jesus. On the word of God’s truth I rest, without asking a thousand carnal questions, remembering Him that hath said, “What is that to thee, follow thou me.” The above Scriptures, thus arranged, with many more by the above author, and Mr. Huntington’s book, “Contemplations on the God of Israel,” which, in my humble opinion, exceeds all that that good man wrote. These were the means of establishing my mind on this great subject, and delivering my soul from a thousand perplexities, for which I can never be too thankful.
Yours, J. C.