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292 [Doc. 245.
TRIAL AT GOTTENBURG.
charity of the New Church?" I replied, "Yes." He then
asked sharply, "How can you demonstrate the first, that there
is one God, in whom there is a Divine Trinity, and that He
is the Lord Jesus Christ? " I said, " I demonstrate it thus:
Is not God one and indivisible ? Is there not a trinity? If
God is one and indivisible, is He not one person? If He is
one person, is not the trinity in that person? That He is the
Lord Jesus Christ is evident from these considerations, that
He was conceived from God the Father (Luke i, 34, 35), and
thus that as to His soul He is God ; and hence, as He Him
self says, that the Father and He are one (John x, 30) ; that
He is in the Father, and the Father in Him (John xiv, 10, 11);
that he that seeth Him and knoweth Him, seeth and knoweth
the Father (John xiv, 7, 9) ; that no one seeth and knoweth
the Father, except Him who is in the bosom of the Father
(John i, 18) ; that all things of the Father are His (John iii,
35 ; xvi, 15) ; that He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life ;
and that no one cometh to the Father, but by Him (John
xiv, 6) ; also that He is of Him, because He is in Him ; and,
according to Paul, that all the fulness of the Godhead dwells
bodily in Him ( Col. ii, 9 ) ; and, moreover, that He hath
power over all flesh (John xvii, 2), and that He hath all power
in heaven and in earth (Matt. xxviii, 18) : from all of which
it follows, that He is God of heaven and earth." He after
wards asked how I prove the second, "that a saving faith is
to believe on Him ?" I said, " By these words of the Lord:
This is the will of the Father, that every one who believeth
on the Son should have eternal life (John vi, 40). God so
loved the world, that He gave His only-begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth on Him should not perish, but have ever
lasting life (John iii, 15, 16). He that believeth on the Son,
hath eternal life ; but he that believeth not the Son shall not
see life ; but the wrath of God abideth on him" (John iii, 36).
He afterwards said, "Demonstrate also the third and the
following : " when I replied, "What need is there to demon
strate that evils ought to be shunned because they are of
the devil and from the devil ; and that goods ought to be
done, because they are of God, and from God ; also that the
latter are to be done by man as from himself; but that
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