Day 10: Tuesday, March 17

Philip says to Him, Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us. Jesus says to him, Am I with thee so much time, and hast thou not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; and how sayest thou, show us the Father? Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The sayings that I speak to you, I speak not from Myself, but the Father who remains in Me, He does the works. Believe Me, that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me; and if not, on account of the works themselves, believe Me. Amen, amen, I say to you, He who believes in Me, the works that I do he shall do also, and greater than these he shall do, because I go to My Father. And whatever you shall ask in My name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you shall ask anything in My name, I will do it. John 14:8-14

Who would not see the monstrosity of [faith in three Divine Persons] if it were presented as it is in itself, in a picture before his eyes? For example, if the three were to stand in order beside each other, the first distinguished by a scepter and crown; the second holding a book, which is the Word, in his right hand, and in his left a golden cross spattered with blood; the third, encircled with wings, standing upon one foot, ready to fly forth and do his work, and above the three the inscription—“these three persons, being so many Gods, are one God”. What wise man seeing the picture would not say to himself, “Alas, what hallucination!” But he would say otherwise if he were to see a picture of one Divine Person with rays of heavenly light around His Head and with the inscription over it, “This is our God, at once Creator, Redeemer, and Regenerator, and therefore the Savior.” Would not that wise man kiss this picture, carry it home in his bosom, and by the sight of it gladden his own mind and the minds of his wife and his children and servants? True Christian Religion 296:4

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