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THE PRACTICAL USES OF THE DOCTRINE OF A

TRINITY.

A SERMON

DELIVERED

IN ST. PHILIP'S, BIRMINGHAM,

ON TRINITY SUNDAY, 1836,

AND

IN ST. GEORGE'S, WOLVERHAMPTON,

ON THE SAME FESTIVAL IN 1837.

BY THE

REV. JOSEPH B. OWEN, B. A.

INCUMBENT OF ST. MARY'S, BILSTON; AND LECTURER OF ST. GEORGE'S,

WOLVERHAMPTON.

Connexus Patris in Filio et Filii in Paracleto, tres afficit cohærentes, alterum ex altero: qui tres unum sunt, non unus; quomodo dictum est "Ego et Pater unum sumus," ad substantiæ unitatem, non ad numeri singularitatem.

Tertullian Adv. Prax cap. 2.

PUBLISHED BY T. SIMPSON, MARKET PLACE, WOLVERHAMPTON; J. G. & F. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, LONDON; AND H. C. LANGBRIDGE, BIRMINGHAM.

TO SIR JOHN CONROY, K. C. H.

&c. &c. &c.

EQUERRY TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS OF KENT,

The following Sermon

IS,

BY HIS KIND PERMISSION, INSCRIBED,

AS A

HUMBLE EXPRESSION OF RESPECT AND GRATEFUl remembRANCE,

BY

HIS OBLIGED

AND FAITHFUL SERVANT,

THE AUTHOR.

THE

PRACTICAL USES OF THE DOCTRINE OF

A TRINITY.

EPHESIANS, ii. 18.

"FOR THROUGH HIM WE BOTH HAVE ACCESS BY ONE SPIRIT UNTO THE FATHER.”

OUR Church, in the order of her appointments, calls upon her children to-day, to devote a particular Sabbath to the celebration of the doctrine of a Trinity. She deemeth the confession of this faith of such vital and pre-eminent importance in her system of Christianity, that-besides this establishment of a Sabbath to its especial memorial-she places it the first upon her list of articles: it is the introductory invocation to her chief litany, the invariable form of her parting benediction in her daily homilies and prayers,—it is the sacred formula in her rite of baptism,—it is the solemn adjuration in the ordination of her priests, the fundamental doctrine in her holy sacrament,-the final seal to the

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