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Excerpt from Practical Discourses on the Liturgy of the Church of England, Vol. 3 of 3
Rev. Iv. 1, to the end - After this I looked, and a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice, which I heard, was as it were of a trumpet talking with me, which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter and immediately I was in the Spirit, &c.
The mysterious doctrine of the holy Trinity was but obscurely revealed under the Old Testament; for which reason, before Christ's coming, we find little or no knowledge of it. God the Father, speaking in the plural number in the creation of man, saying, Come, let us make man in our own image, ' (gen. Is by some thought to denote the whole Trinity; and the mention of the Spirit's moving on the face of the waters, ' and the Son's bruising the serpent's head, ' (gen. They take to refer to the three Persons in it. But these are dark discoveries of so great a truth; and to interpret the three persons that appeared to Abraham, ' to be the three Persons of the holy Trinity, is not much better.
And a father tells us, that God on purpose concealed from the Jews the doctrine of the Trinity, lest they should thence take occasion to fall into idolatry, and worship a plurality of Gods, to which they were too prone.
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