Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Doctrines; Faith; Latter Day Saint churches -- Doctrines
A. By the nineteenth paragraph of this lecture.*
_Note._ Let the student turn and commit these paragraphs to memory.
LECTURE FIFTH.
Of Faith.
SECTION V.
1. In our former lectures we treated of the being, character,
perfections, and attributes of God. What we mean by perfections, is,
the perfections which belong to all the attributes of his nature. We
shall, in this lecture, speak of the Godhead: we mean the Father, Son,
and Holy Spirit.
2. There are two personages who constitute the great, matchless,
governing, and supreme power over all things--by whom all things
were created and made, that are created and made, whether visible or
invisible: whether in heaven, on earth, or in the earth, under the
earth, or throughout the immensity of space--They are the Father and
the Son: the Father being a personage of spirit, glory, and power:
possessing all perfection and fullness: the Son, who was in the bosom
of the Father, a personage of tabernacle, made, or fashioned like unto
man, or being in the form and likeness of man, or, rather, man was
formed after his likeness, and in his image;--he is also the express
image and likeness of the personage of the Father: possessing all the
fullness of the Father, or the same fulness with the Father; being
begotten of him, and ordained from before the foundation of the world
to be a propitiation for the sins of all those who should believe on
his name, and is called the Son because of the flesh--and descended in
suffering below that which man can suffer, or, in other words, suffered
greater sufferings, and was exposed to more powerful contradictions
than any man can be. But notwithstanding all this, he kept the law of
God, and remained without sin: Showing thereby that it is in the power
of man to keep the law and remain also without sin. And also, that
by him a righteous judgment might come upon all flesh, and that all
who walk not in the law of God, may justly be condemned by the law,
and have no excuse for their sins. And he being the Only Begotten of
the Father, full of grace and truth, and having overcome, received a
fullness of the glory of the Father--possessing the same mind with the
Father, which mind is the Holy Spirit, that bears record of the Father
and the Son, and these three are one, or in other words, these three
constitute the great, matchless, governing and supreme power over all
things: by whom all things were created and made, that were created and
made: and these three constitute the Godhead, and are one: the Father
and the Son possessing the same mind, the same wisdom, glory, power,
and fullness: Filling all in all--the Son being filled with the fulness
of the Mind, glory, and power, or, in other words, the Spirit, glory,
and power, of the Father--possessing all knowledge and glory, and the
same kingdom: sitting at the right hand of power, in the express image
and likeness of the Father--a mediator for man--being filled with the
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