The Foundling; or, The Child of ProvidenceChurch, J. (John)
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The Foundling; or, The Child of Providence
Church, J. (John)
Church, J. (John), approximately 1780-approximately 1825; Clergy -- England -- Biography
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.”
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