Spiritual Experiences Minor (Buss) n. 4623

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4623. The most recondite mysteries have also their idea remaining after death: for instance, the Trinity. Christians can have no other idea than of three gods, because they acknowledge three persons, and say, the Father is God, the Son is God, the Holy Spirit is God, and yet there is one God. Thus they have in them the idea of several gods, which the heathen have not. Wherefore, it is a matter of the greatest labor to bring back the ideas of Christians to one God, namely, to the Lord, in whom the whole trine is perfect.


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