EXPLAINED AND DEFENDED, IN A SERIES OF SERMONS, BY TIMOTHY DWIGHT, S. T.D. LL. D. LATE PRESIDENT OF YALE COLLEGE. WITH A Memoir OP THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR. IN FIVE VOLUMES. VOL. III.- LONDON: STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY J. HADDON, FOR WILLIAM BAYNES AND SON, PATERNOSTER ROW; AND THOMAS TEGG, CHEAPSIDE; R. M. TIMS, DUBLIN; AND ALL OTHER BOOKSELLERS. ... SERMON LXXI. TESTIMONIES ΤΟ THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY, FROM THE ANCIENT CHRISTIANS, JEWS, AND HEATHENS. COME YE NEAR UNTO ME; HEAR YE THIS: I HAVE NOT SPOKEN IN SECRET FROM THE BEGINNING; FROM THE TIME THAT IT WAS, THERE AM I: AND NOW THE LORD GOD AND HIS SPIRIT HATH SENT ME. ISAIAH XLVIII. 16. IN the last Discourse I considered the personality and divinity of the Spirit of God. In a series of Discourses formerly delivered I considered the divinity of Christ. If the arguments alleged in those Discourses are as conclusive as they appear to me, they prove the existence of a TRINITY, or three persons and one God. The proof of this doctrine must unquestionably be derived from the Scriptures alone. But when a doctrine of this extraordinary nature is presented to the mind, we naturally feel a strong curiosity to know the manner in which the same doctrine has been regarded by others; particularly by such as have lived before us; and peculiarly by the ancient members of the Jewish and Christian churches. Nor is this a matter |