JOHN XVIII. 38. Pilate saith unto him, what is truth? One signal circumstance of our Saviour's meritorious passion, was that which we daily rehearse in the Creed, that he suffered under Pontius Pilate. And truly from the character which is given this person, not only by the Evangelists but other writers, he appears to have been a fit man for that execrable work of condemning the Lord of Life. For who was more so than the covetous and greedy Pilate, who attempted to rob the Te

We are now come to treat of that profound mystery, at which men and angels stand amazed. How can three be one? (saith the disputer of this world) or one be three? Can one be distinguished again and again from himself? O bold fools, (saith Athanasius) why do you not lay aside your curiosity, and enquire no farther after a Trinity, than to believe that there is a Trinity? The Scripture saith there is but one God, and the Scripture saith that the Father, Son and Holy Ghost are t

The Christian Sabbath (as our Church calls it,) that is, the Lord’s day, being a matter of so great importance, both in respect of Christians and of Christianity, as that the name of the Lord of glory is imprinted upon it. And the primitive Christians accounted it their glorious character. And the Catholic Church has still owned it, and in the best of times most acknowledged it to be a day wholly dedicated to the remembrance and service of God our Saviour, I shall therefore,

The Manner of God's Being or Subsisting in the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, is the best manner of Being that is or can be, and the single Godhead is thereby thrice illustrious throughout the world. Hitherto we have contended for the truth of this Divine Being or Subsisting: Now we shall demonstrate the excellency thereof. God is made known to us as the everlasting Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and is to be adored and worshipped as the Father of our Lord Jesus, Rom. 15. 6 &

When Gregory Nyssen undertook to confute the artificial blasphemy of Eunomius, he desired that the true God, the Son of the true God, and the Holy Spirit would direct him into all truth. I have likewise implored the divine assistance of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, that I may open this mystery of the single Godhead in three distinct subsistences, with faith and prudence, perspicuity and reverence. I consider that the Godhead is spiritual, and therefore I desire to avoid al

God has sufficiently and graciously revealed himself in his holy word for our edification and salvation. This incomprehensible God, who is of himself and for himself, cannot be made known to his creatures but by himself: Men and angels cannot know him any further then he is pleased to reveal himself unto them. The word of God is pure and perfect, it does fully discover God’s mind and our duty. The Scriptures direct us in all points of faith, in all parts of worship, and in al

God is the First, Eternal and Independent Being, the Fountain of all Being and Well-Being, and therefore cannot but Be, Exist, and persist in Being. It is a rule generally received in the Schools, that all creatures have more of imperfection and nothingness, then they have of being or perfection. But all being, the whole of being is in God. God is principium totius esse, the fountain of all being, and well-being, the only self-being. God is the first, eternal and independent

We read of the eternal Godhead in the book of the creature, Rom. 1. 20 and therefore I prize philosophy because it is subservient to divinity; nay that philosophy which manifests the eternal power and Godhead of our great Creator is indeed and truth, nothing else but natural divinity: This natural divinity is called "the truth", Rom. 1. 18. and it is a divine truth, because it does declare, all that can be known of God by the light of nature, Rom. 1. 19, 20. I subscribe to th

The repeating of sermons, I shall endeavour to move Christians unto both by scripture and reason. Scriptural Grounds for Sermon Repetition. The first scripture I shall mention, is, Jer. 36. 2, 6 where the Lord first commands Jeremy to write all the words which he had spoken from the days of Josiah unto that day; and thereupon, Jeremy calls Baruch to write them from his mouth, and then commands him to read what he had written in the ears of the people, that so they might be br

The duty that I shall now speak of (in some generality, but with respect also to the respective families of Christians) is, Singing of Psalms; For the better establishing whereof, I shall in the first place endeavour to take out of the way what is objected against it; I say, objected against it, not so much in our days formerly, as in these latter days wherein many have so cast off all forms of godliness, and (under that name) God’s own institutions, and amongst them, this ho