33. The reason the idea of three Gods proceeded chiefly from the Athanasian Creed, where a Trinity of Persons is taught, is because the word "person" begets such an idea. Moreover, this idea is further implanted by these words in the Creed "There is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost" and later "The Father is God and Lord, the Son is God and Lord, and the Holy Ghost is God and Lord" but especially by these words in the Creed "For like as we are compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge every Person by himself to be God and Lord, so we are forbidden by the Catholic Religion to say there are three Gods or three Lords." The import of these words is that by the Christian verity we are bound to confess and acknowledge three Gods and three Lords, but by the Catholic religion we are not allowed to say, or to mention, three Gods and three Lords; consequently, we may have an idea of three Gods and three Lords, but we are not to make oral confession thereof. Nevertheless, the doctrine of the Trinity in the Athanasian Creed agrees with the truth if only there is substituted for a Trinity of Persons a Trinity of Person which is in God the Saviour Jesus Christ, as may be seen in THE DOCTRINE OF THE NEW JERUSALEM CONCERNING THE LORD, published at Amsterdam in the year 1763, nos. 55-61.