“Would to God that none of us may perish, but that
we may all abide in one spirit, with one soul labouring together for
the faith of the Gospel, of one mind, minding the same thing, armed
with the shield of faith, girt about the loins with truth, knowing only
the one war against the Evil One, and those who fight under his orders,
not fearing them that kill the body but cannot lay hold of the soul;
but fearing Him Who is the Lord both of soul and body; guarding the
good deposit which we have received from our fathers, adoring Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost, knowing the Father in the Son, and the Son in the
Holy Ghost—into which Names we were baptized, in Which we have
believed, under Whose banner we have been enlisted ; dividing Them
before we combine Them, and combining before we divide; not receiving
the Three as one Person (for They are not impersonal, or names of one
Person, as though our wealth lay in Names alone and not in facts), but
the Three as one Thing. For They are One, not in Person, but in
Godhead, Unity adored in Trinity, and Trinity summed up in Unity; all
adorable, all royal, of one throne and one glory; above the world,
above time, uncreated, invisible, impalpable, uncircumscript; in Its
relation to Itself known only to Itself; but to us equally venerable
and adorable; Alone dwelling in the Holiest, and leaving all creatures
outside and shut off, partly by the First Veil, and partly also by the
Second;—by the first, the heavenly and angelic host, parted from
Godhead; and by the second, we men, severed from the Angels. This
let us do; let this be our mind, Brethren; and those that are otherwise
minded let us look upon as diseased in regard to the truth, and as far
as may be, let us take and cure them; but if they be incurable let us
withdraw from them, lest we share their disease before we impart to
them our own health. And the God of Peace that passeth all
understanding shall be with you in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Amen.”