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of God. It is through God's Holy Spirit that believers receive the impulse to do everything good, and power to perform good deeds. And the fruit which He enables the faithful to show forth in their lives and characters is thus described in the word of God: 'The 1 fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.' God's grace, which is bestowed upon them through God's Holy Spirit, restrains them from doing evil deeds, and makes them eager to do good ones, according as it is written: 'The 2 grace of God hath appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world; looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify onto himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works.'

Since, therefore, the doctrine of the Trinity of Hypostases in the Unity of the divine nature enables us to understand in some measure the incarnation of the Lord Jesus Christ, the way of salvation through Him, and the gracious influence. of God's Holy Spirit on the hearts and lives of those who truly believe in Christ, and since we find


1 Gal. v. 22-3. 2 Titus ii. 11-14.

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thus revealed to us in the holy Scriptures God's holiness, justice, mercy and love, as far as any man has capacity to grasp these great truths, therefore it is clearer than the sun at noonday that this doctrine of the Trinity in Unity is true, and is entirely worthy of and consonant with God's greatness and glory, as well as closely connected with man's salvation and true happiness here and hereafter.

In conclusion it is our duty to point out to our honoured readers the fact that denial of the truth of the doctrine of the Trinity in Unity leads to the rejection of belief in the Deity of the Word of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. But whoever denies this has not attained unto the true knowledge of God Most High, for the Lord Jesus Himself has said: 'I 1 am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh onto the Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye would have known my Father also.' One who does not believe the Lord Jesus Christ's own words in the Gospel does not in any true sense believe in Him at all. Not believing in His Deity, such a man is unable to attain to any true realization of God's holiness, justice, mercy and love. Nor has he found a holy and sinless Saviour and Mediator to save him from sin and its awful consequences hereafter, and to bestow upon him eternal salvation and everlasting life. For it is thus written in. the holy Scriptures: 'Whosoever 2 denieth, the


1 John xiv. 6-7. 2 1 John ii. 23.