ought to find far more.

But some will say--Yes. Let us think of God, God's mercies, God's
dealings with his people; but why think especially of the Name of the
Ever-blessed Trinity?

For this simple reason. That it is by that Name of Father, Son, and
Holy Ghost, that God has revealed himself. That is the name by which
he bids us think of him; and we are more or less disregarding his
commands when we think of him by any other. That is the name which
God has given himself; and, therefore, it is morally certain that
that is God's right name; that it expresses God's very self, God's
very being, as he is.

Theology signifies, the knowledge of God as he is. And it is dying
out among us in these days. Much of what is called theology now is
nothing but experimental religion; which is most important and useful
when it is founded on the right knowledge of God: but which is not
itself theology. For theology begins with God: but experimental
religion, right or wrong, begins with a man's own soul. Therefore it
is that men are unaccustomed to theology. They shrink from it as
something very abstruse, only fit for great scholars and divines, and
almost given up now-a-days even by them. They do not know that
theology, the knowledge of God, is full of practical every-day
comfort, and guidance for their conduct and character; yea, that it
is--so says the Bible--everlasting life itself. Therefore it is that
some shrink from thinking of the Ever-blessed Trinity, not from any
evil intent, but because they are afraid of thinking wrongly, and so
consider it more safe not to think at all. They have been puzzled,
it may be, by arguments which they have heard, or read, or which have