Rom. II, 33. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
34. For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counselor?
35. Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
36. For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory forever. Amen.
CHAPTER III.
PERSONALITIES IN THE GODHEAD.
THE TRINITY IN UNITY.
The word Trinity does not occur in the Scriptures, but this is no argument against the doctrine itself, since the Scriptures teach the divinity of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, as well as that of the Father; and as neither the divinity of the Father nor the unity of the Godhead was ever called in question at any period, it follows that the doctrine of the Trinity in unity has been in substance, in all its constituent parts, always known among Christians.
The testimony of the fathers is explicit in favor of this doctrine. Justin Martyr, in refuting the charge of atheism urged against the Christians because they did not believe in the gods of the heathen, expressly says: "We worship and adore the Father, and Son who came from him and taught us, these things, and the prophetic Spirit."