TERMS AND DOXOLOGIES, AND FORMS OF PRAYER AND BLESSING, RECEIVED AS

ORTHODOX,

SCRIPTURE.

BUT UNAUTHORIZED BY

Blessed and glorious TRINITY.
TRINITY in UNITY. THREE-One.
THREE PERSONS in ONE GOD.

TRI-PERSONAL: TRIUNE.
Co-eternal, Co-equal.

GOD-MAN.

O LORD! who art one GOD, one LORD! NOT one only PERSON, but THREE PERSONS in one

SUBSTANCE.

O LORD GOD! Lamb of God! Son of the Father!

O GOD the SON, Redeemer of the world!

O GOD the Holy Ghost, proceeding from the Father and the Son!

The blessing of God Almighty, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, be amongst you.

God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost, bless, preserve, and keep you.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

Now to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory.

Jesus Christ, who with THEE and the Holy Ghost liveth and reigneth ever, one God, world without end.

Who liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the unity of the same Spirit,* one God, world without end Jesus Christ, to whom with Thee and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory...

The prayer of Polycarp, recorded in the Epistle of the Church of Smyrna, is quoted in defence of the Triune doctrine being that of the first ages. "On this account and above all I laud, I biess, I glorify thee, together with the eternal and heavenly Jesus, thy beloved Son, with whom to thee and the holy Ghost be glory now and for evermore.” But Eusebius quotes the words, "through thy eternal high priest, Jesus Christ, thy wellbeloved Son: through whom to thee, together with him in the holy Spirit, be glory now and for evermore."

Of the professed writers of the apostolic age, some are spurious, as the Epistle of Barnabas; others are confessedly interpolated. We meet with such expressions as our God Jesus Christ" which, however familiar in modern orthodoxy, cannot be shown to be apostolical. But Polycarp, in the letter to the Philippians, speaks clearly of Christ as distinct from and dependent on God." Mercy and Peace to you from the allpowerful God, and Jesus Christ our Saviour." "Believe therefore in him who raised our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead and gave him glory." Clemens says, "the Apostles presented the Gospel to us under a commission from the Lord Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ, under a commission from God." He calls Christ indeed," the sceptre of the majesty of God;" but this, instead of proving his divinity, proves his distinctness and inferiority: the symbol of majesty is not the majesty itself; and no Unitarian would scruple at assenting to these terms, which are equivalent to the "brightness, or rather ray, of his glory." Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople in the ninth century, censures Clemens, because he did not give to Christ "his more lofty and divine titles, but called him simply high Priest and Patron." Allowing, however, that" he did not openly blaspheme him." Yet Clemens was the contemporary and fellow-labourer of the Apostles.

FORMS OF DOXOLOGY,

BLESSING, AND PRAYER, AUTHORIZED BY SCRIPTURE, AND SYSTEMATICALLY REJECTED FROM THE ESTABLISHED WORSHIP.

To GOD only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen. Rom. xvi. 27.

Unto God be glory in the church by Christ Jesus, throughout all ages, world without end. Amen. Ephes. iii. 21.

Now unto our GOD and FATHER be glory for ever and ever. Philipp. iv. 20.

Now unto the KING eternal, immortal, invisible, the ONLY WISE GOD, be honour and glory, for ever and ever. 1. Tim. i. 17.

Blessed be the GOD AND FATHER of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1. Pet. i. 3.

Salvation and glory, and honour, and power unto the LORD our GOD. Rev. xix. 1.

To the ONLY WISE GOD, OUR SAVIOUR, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen. Jude ver. 25.

Grace be to you, and peace from GoD our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Eph. i. 2.

The GOD OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, the FATHER of glory, give unto you the spirit of wisdom. Eph. i. 17.

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, 3.

Now the GOD of peace be with you all. Amen. Rom. xv. 33.

The GOD of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, make you perfect. TO HIM be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. 1 Peter, v. 10.

O FATHER, Lord of heaven and earth! Matt. xi. 25.

O FATHER! the ONLY TRUE GOD! John xx. 17. LORD, thou art GOD which hast made heaven and earth, and the sea. Acts iv. 24.

PASSAGES WHICH PROVE THE ABSOLUTE UNITY AND SUPREMACY OF JEHOVAH, THE FATHER; AND THE PROPER HUMANITY OF JESUS.

Isaiah xliv. 6. Thus saith the LORD the King of ISRAEL, and his [Israel's] redeemer the Lord of hosts: I am the first, and I am the last, and besides ME there is no God.

xlv. 5. I am the LORD, and there is NONE ELSE: there is no GOD besides me.

xlvi. 9. I am GOD, and there is none else: I am GOD, and there is none LIKE ME.

xliv. 24. Thus saith the LORD thy REDEEMER, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am THE LORD that maketh all things, that stretcheth forth the heavens ALONE, that spreadeth abroad the earth BY MYSELF.

Deut. xxxii. 39. I, even I am he, and there is no GOD WITH ME.

Zechariah, xiv. 9. In that day shall there be ONE Lord and his name ONE.