prove the truth of Christianity to you, or to any others, who did not acknowledge the truth of St. Paul's assertion, that "all Scripture is given by inspiration of God." A rejector of this fact must be a rejector of religion altogether: through the Bible alone is God's will revealed to us; through that, (as far as He saw fit, and as far as is suitable to the comprehension of man in our present state of limited faculties,) is his nature declared. All that we know of God can only be derived from his own gracious communication; every thing, without it, is merely vague conjecture, and we, like the Athenians of old, should otherwise only ignorantly worship an "unknown God." Our ignorance can only be dispelled by the Scripture itself, as St. Paul declared to the Athenians. The authenticity of the Scriptures is no longer a matter of dispute. The antiquity of the Old Testament is also an acknowledged point; indeed, it is the oldest book in the world;

and, on the real history of the Pentateuch. have been founded the various Heathen fables; and the shadowy representations of the Asiatics plainly shew the substantial volume from which they are derived. The pains which were taken to preserve the sacred writings, and the multiplication of the copies, form another proof that the original Scriptures have been handed down to us in a genuine form. The malice of enemies also guarded against material alterations; and though the Creator did not so authoritatively interpose, as to prevent trifling errors of transcribers; yet, undoubtedly, such errors were prevented as might essentially impair the truth of the history, and the design of the doctrines. Various other proofs have been repeatedly brought forward, which, from the internal evidence of the Bible, and every reasonable mode of arguing, would sufficiently shew, that this book is of an infinitely superior nature to any other that has ever appeared.

But two great proofs exist, which render every minor degree of evidence, if not futile, at least unnecessary: these are, the fulfilment of prophecy, and the testimony which Christ himself gives, and his Apostles after him, to the importance, the authenticity, and Divine nature of the Old Testament. The objects, on account of which the different references are made, and which they are called upon to establish, are of a superhuman and Divine nature: to what purpose then should references be made to a book void of Divine inspiration? How could any book, merely written by man, without any aid or direction of God, be a convincing proof of the truth of things entirely of a spiritual nature, and which far transcended the unassisted powers of human reason? I will refer you to the last most instructive, most affecting, and most glorious farewell speech which our Saviour delivered to the chosen eleven, as related at the end of the 24th chapter

of St. Luke, 44th verse, "And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, whilst I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning me." As our Saviour himself has, on this last solemn occasion, referred to these books of the Old Testament, (as indeed he had done to almost all the others before,) his reference not only stamps the authenticity of the books, but proves indelibly to every thinking mind, that all of the books, more or less, were prophetic of him. Of prophecy I do not at present mean to speak, but hasten to the proof of the grand point which forms the subject of this Letter, to that sure, but incomprehensible, Doctrine of " the Trinity in Unity." So many prophecies have been already so literally fulfilled, that the sneers of the scoffer are set in positive defiance; and the fulfilment of

the rest is daily and gradually proceeding, till, in the fulness of time, all will become light. I cannot better commence my proof of the great and fundamental Doctrine of the Trinity in Unity, than by quoting the command given by our Saviour to his Disciples before he ascended into Heaven,* "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." Is it not astonishing that any, who read this last injunction given by our blessed Lord to his Disciples, should hesitate to believe in the Doctrine of what we call the Trinity? Unto what were we all baptized, if not in the name (not names observe!) of the Three Divine Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost? Whoever denies the Divinity of all these Three Persons, I consider to have renounced his

*Matthew xxviii. 19.