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when he shall deliver up the kingdom to God, even the Father." 2 Cor. i. 3, "Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort.' Eph. i. 17, The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory." Eph. iii. 9, “ God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:" Phil. i. 11, "The fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God." 1 Thes. i. 9, "Ye turned to God, from idols, to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come." 1 Tim. ii. 5, "For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus." 1 Tim. v. 21, " I charge "I thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels." Heb. x. 7, "Then said I, lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.” 1 Pet. i. 3, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." Jude, 4, "Denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ."

The book of Revelation contains many passages to our present purpose. I shall content myself, for the present, with merely reading you the title of it, and two or three of its first verses.. "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to show unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass.-John, to the seven

churches which are in Asia: grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven spirits which are before his throne; and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and Amen."

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Brethren, you may well think it time I should release you and myself from the task of scripture quotation on this subject. But the subject is one of importance; and as it is a subject of pure revelation, on which nothing else can throw any light, so nothing can be offered on it so satisfactory, nothing can carry such conviction home to the mind, as the pure, unmixed word of God. This was one object I had in viewthat I might show the doctrine I am supporting to be the truth of God, and not the device of man. Another object which I wish to promote, by going through this lengthened detail of scripture testimony, and by requesting it of you to go into a still more lengthened and particular examination thereof for yourselves, is-that you may all see and know, that the doctrine of my text-the doctrine that the Father is "the only true God"-is indeed the doctrine which per

vades the Christian scriptures. The New Testament is full of it. If I have ceased quotation, it is not for want of materials. I might occupy you, for hours, with passages equally plain, convincing, and pertinent to the subject; but I deem it quite unnecessary.

I might branch out my subject into many other heads of testimony, all leading directly to the same conclusion. I might have collected, under several divisions, those declarations of Christ and his Apostles, which apply such high and peculiar titles to the Father, as serve to distinguish him from all other beings. I might have classed under one head those which entitle him "Lord of heaven and earth :"-under another, those which entitle him "the Highest, or Most High God:"under another, those which entitle him "the invisible God, whom no man hath seen, or can see:"-" the living and true God:"-the God "who sitteth on the throne :"-" the Lord God Almighty."-But all these I hope you will see and consider for yourselves. The scripture testimonies already produced, might be sufficient to convince any mind, not closed by prejudice, or an undue regard to human authority-any mind prepared to bow down before the authority of Christ and his inspired Apostles-that the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the great and glorious being to whom he addressed his prayers, is indeed "the only true God.”

To some of you, my beloved brethren, who have been accustomed to think otherwise, and may not have much exercised your minds on the subject, this doctrine may appear new and strange. But it is not new to the scriptures, nor would it have appeared so to you, if your minds had been fairly open to the teaching of inspiration-if you had taken your creed immediately from the word of God. It is a pity that any thing there should be new or strange to any among you. Be persuaded to consult the holy scriptures with increased diligence-with a deeper reverence, and with habitual and fervent prayer to God, that he may enable you to cast away from you the trammels of human authority,-to open your understandings to the truth, and to receive with meekness, as new-born babes, the sincere milk of his holy word.

I know, brethren, you may be told, and some of you may think, that the doctrine which invests the Father exclusively, with the title of "the only true God," is derogatory to the dignity and glory which properly belong to the Son of God, and to the Holy Spirit of God. And you may hear this doctrine denounced in high declamatory phrase, as an antichristian heresy, which takes the crown of glory off the Redeemer's head, and amounts to little less than a denial of Christ! But, just recollect, that the doctrine so denounced is not mine, but his that sent me. It is the doc

trine of "the glorious gospel of the blessed God." It is the doctrine taught by our Lord Jesus Christ and his Apostles. And, as you cannot think me wrong in embracing, or teaching, any doctrine which they have plainly taught,-as you cannot think it an error implicitly to follow their holy guidance, so I am sure you, at least, wil! acquit me of any delibérate intention of degrading--of lowering the dignity, or lessening the true glory—either of the beloved Son of the Father, that merciful Saviour who suffered for me, and for you, on the cross, or of that Holy Spirit of God, through whose sanctifying influence, we all hope to be prepared for an entrance into the blissful society above.

God forbid that my hand should ever be sacrilegiously lifted up, to obscure one ray of the glory which encircles those blessed spirits who are fulfilling the high designs of the Father's mercy, for the recovery of a lost world. On the contrary, I hope I can honestly say, that I desire to "know nothing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified." I hope I shall ever "glory in the cross of Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world." I trust, I shall be enabled, by the Spirit of God, to devote myself, in sincerity and truth, to the ministry of his gospel, and the observance of his laws, so long as I live. And I shall cherish the hope, that hereafter I may be graciously received, through