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they ever worshipped, as Athanasius hath it in his Creed, one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; and that uno indiviso cultu, as Divines speak. This in all Ages hath been the Christian Worship; and upon this Worship answers and returns have come down from ⟨p. 357⟩Heaven in abundance of Glorious Spiritual Blessings, such as are comprised in that Apostolical Prayer, The Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the Communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all, Amen, 2 Cor. 13.14. The whole Trinity is adored, and the whole Trinity vouchsafes Gracious returns; Gratia quae datur, in Trinitate datur, saith Athanasius. Every Believer so worshipping hath returns from Heaven; and the Progressive Believer may know that he hath them; and in the experience thereof may experience That there is a Sacred Trinity of a truth. If the Trinity be a nullity, or as Servetus blasphemously said, An Idol, or three-headed Cerberus; Or, as Socinus belched out his impiety, A ridiculous invention of humane curiosity: Then the Christian Worship is no other than strange fire, vain' Will-worship, and Idol-worship; nay, it is no Worship at all; none, because the Trinity its supposed Object is a nullity; none, because God looks on it as none. As when the Samaritans feared the Lord and served their Idols, 2 King. 17.33. The Text saith in the very next ver. That they feared not the Lord; their fear was as none, because of the mixture of Idol-worship: So when Christians worship one God, and a Trinity which is not, their Worship is as none at all. Upon such a Worship God will not open his eyes unless to punish it, nor make any returns but those of Wrath. When the Israelites worshipped the Golden Calf, Gods Wrath waxed hot, and was ready to consume them; ⟨p. 358⟩much more may it do so, if Christians worship a Trinity which is not. In that of the Calf, as they meant it, there was only error in modo, for they intended not to terminate their Worship in the Calf but in God, as appears by their own words, To marrow is a feast to Jehovah, Exod. 32.5. But in this of a Supposititious Trinity, there is error in objectio ultimo, which is more provoking to God. If the Trinity be but the Idol of the brain, God will no more be enquired of by its Worshippers than he would by those who set up their Idols in their heart.