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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
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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
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