existing in the Unity of the Divine Essence, and as regards the offices which they respectively sustain in the grand work of Redemption. This truth was partially revealed under the Old Testament dispensation, but more clearly explained by Jesus and his Disciples. The Koran speaks of God, the Word and the Spirit, but in ignorance or unbelief, "Say not there are three Gods, forbear this, it will be better for you[1]."
The imputing to Christians a belief in three or a plurality of Gods, is a mere gratuitous assertion or palpable misrepresentation. The Unity of the Godhead forms as fundamental an article in the Christian code, as it did in that of the Jews before them. In acknowledging however a three-fold existence in one Jehovah Elohim, constituting in a mysterious manner the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity, they em-
- ↑ Chapter 4.
