[Another unpublished until now article by Elder Samuel Trott - ed]
Brother Beebe: A brother in a letter I received recently containing strictures on what I have given as the scriptural doctrine of God's existence as one and three, refers me to a passage in my 4th number as conveying the idea God the godhead was humbled, suffered, etc; and on looking at the passage again, found on column three, page 138, Signs Vol. VIII, No. 18, I see it is liable to such a construction when taken irrespectively of what I have written in other numbers. I wish therefore to offer an explanation of it. The passage is this, “that this one Jehovah exists as three and so exists as three, that in all his divine majesty and perfections, he as the Father remains the invisible God, high seated on his throne, rolling on his eternal purpose, maintain the honors of his throne, demanding and accepting satisfaction for his transgressed law. At the same time, as the Son, be appointed heir of all things, be made a high priest, offer himself in sacrifice.”
As I was here Speaking of Jehovah in his essential existence, as three and not of the Son distinctly as uniting the godhead and humanity in his person, it did not occur to me, that any would understand me as intending to convey the idea that the God hid itself was made a sacrifice. The idea I intended to convey was that God so existed as three, that while as the Father he was exercising all the prerogatives of the divine throne, he, as the apostle said, was manifested in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seeing of angels, or in other words that the fullness of the Godhead dwelt bodily in Christ Jesus, so that in Christ that God had and humanity so existed in personal unity that he was to Jehovah while exercising the office of mediator between God and men, and while humbling himself as the Son of man, and yet it was only as Christ that he was appointed mediator, and as man that he suffered. Hence the work of redemption accomplished by him in his humiliation had the perfection of the godhead in it. The righteousness which he wrought out, is the righteousness of God, Romans 3.22; 2nd Corinthians 5.31; and the blood which Jesus shed is spoken of as the blood of God, Acts 20.28.
S. Trott
Centerville, Fairfax County, Virginia January 29, 1841
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