Christian Theology - Media Sabda Org

membraneous covering, the same colour, the same taste, the same smell,
in every part; and yet the three leaves distinct; but each and all a
continuation of the stem, and proceeding from the same root. Such a fact
as this may at least illustrate the doctrine. An intelligent shepherd, whom
he met upon the mountains, is said to have exhibited the herb and the
illustration, while discoursing on certain difficulties in the Christian faith.
When a child I heard a learned man relate this fact.
May God the Father adopt me fully for his child! May God the Son
dwell in my heart by faith! May God the Holy Spirit purge my conscience
from dead works, and purify my soul from all unrighteousness! May the
holy, blessed, and glorious TRINITY take me and mine, and seal us for his
own in time and in eternity!
O thou incomprehensible Jehovah, thou eternal Word, thou ever
during and all-pervading Spirit;—Father! Son! and Holy Ghost! in the
plenitude of thy eternal Godhead, in thy light, I, in a measure see thee;
and in thy condescending nearness to my nature I can love thee, for thou
hast loved me. In thy strength may I begin, continue, and end every
design and every work, so as to glorify thee by showing how much thou
lovest man, and how much man may be ennobled and beatified by loving
thee! Here am I fixed, here am I lost, and here I find my GOD, and here
I find myself!