preme God, he must not have as much right to give the Father, as the Father can have to give him? And whether, upon this supposition, it can be proper for Christians to pray to the Father to give them his Holy Spirit?

ANSW. As to the rights and privileges among the sacred Three; they are best known to themselves. And who are we, that we should pretend to fathom the depths of the divine nature, or the ineffable economy of the three Persons? Scripture calls the Spirit, the Spirit of the Father, and not vice versa, and directs us to ask the Father to give his Spirit to us. This is sufficient for us to know, and is a direction to our practice.

QUERY 13. Whether it be an intolerable crime in ministers, and such as deserves ejectment, for them to hold, that Christ alone is the King of his Church? And that Christians are to receive his words only, as the authentic rule of their faith, without subjecting their faith to the authoritative interpretations of any men upon earth?

ANSW. This Query is too loose and general to admit of any close determinate answer. I shall only observe, that these gentlemen know at other times how to interpret the alone King, or only Potentate, so as to leave room for subordinate governors. And I know not any one that contends for more, or ever pretends to equal themselves to Christ. Arians, perhaps, or Socinians, having brought Christ down to the rank of creatures, or of men, may in time take upon them farther: but the Trinitarians will never be wanting in their honour to Christ, or the alone King, and the alone God, not exclusive of, but in conjunction with God the Father and the Holy Ghost; not abridging all or any of the three sacred Persons of the liberty of appointing subordinate ministers, rulers, or governors, to act under them, according to such rules, laws, and measures, as infinite wisdom shall see good and pro

per.

THE SCRIPTURES

AND

THE ARIANS

COMPARED

IN THEIR ACCOUNTS OF

GOD THE FATHER

AND

GOD THE SON:

BY WAY OF REJOINDER TO A PAMPHLET,

ENTITLED,

THE SCRIPTURE AND THE ATHANASIANS COMPARED,

&c.

IN TWO PARTS.

Let them be taken in the crafty wiliness that they have imagined.

Psalm x. 2.

THE SCRIPTURES

AND

THE ARIANS

COMPARED, &c.

PART I.

I SHALL lay before the reader the plain account of Scripture in one column, and the true account of what the modern Arian scheme is in the other: which I will endeavour to make as plain as any thing of that nature can be; and leave the reader to judge whether it be agreeable to Scripture or no, and so choose or refuse it after a rational and faithful examination.