13. It follows in the Creed,
“And in the Holy Ghost.” This Trinity, one God, one nature, one
substance, one power; highest equality, no division, no diversity,
perpetual dearness of love.1795
Would ye know the Holy
Ghost, that
He is
God? Be
baptized, and ye will be His
temple. The
Apostle
says, “Know ye not that your bodies are the
temple within you of
the Holy
Ghost, Whom ye have of
God?”
1796
A
temple is for
God: thus also
Solomon, king and
prophet, was bidden to build a
temple for
God. If
he had built a
temple for the sun or
moon or some
star or some
angel, would not
God condemn him? Because therefore he built a
temple for
God he showed that he worshipped
God. And of what did he
build? Of
wood and
stone, because
God deigned to make unto Himself
by His
servant an
house on
earth, where He might be asked, where He
might be had in
mind. Of which
blessed Stephen says, “
Solomon
built Him an
house; howbeit the Most High dwelleth not in
temples
made by
hand.”
1797
If then our bodies are the
temple
of the Holy
Ghost, what manner of
God is it that built a
temple for
the Holy
Ghost? But it was
God. For if our bodies be a
temple of
the Holy
Ghost, the same built this
temple for the Holy
Ghost, that
built our bodies. Listen to the
Apostle saying, “
God hath
tempered the body, giving unto that which lacked the greater
honor;”
1798
when he
was speaking of the different members that there should be no
schisms in the body.
God created our body. The
grass,
God created;
our body Who
created? How do we
prove that the
grass is
God’s
creating? He that
clothes, the same
creates. Read the
Gospel, “If
then the
grass of the
fields,” saith it, “which to-day is, and
to-morrow is cast into the
oven,
God so clotheth.”
1799
He, then,
creates Who
clothes. And the
Apostle: “Thou
fool, that which thou
sowest is not quickened except it
die; and that which thou sowest,
thou sowest not that body that shall be, but a bare
grain, as
perchance of
wheat, or of some other corn; but
God giveth it a body
as He would, and to each one of
seeds its proper body.”
1800
If then it
be
God that builds our bodies,
God that builds our members, and our
bodies are the
temple of the Holy
Ghost, doubt not that the Holy
Ghost is
God. And do not add as it were a third God; because Father
and Son and Holy Ghost is One God. So believe ye.
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