On this page
-
Text (1)
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
feight and day searching the scriptures , and praying to God to direct him in his inquiries after truth ; in consequence of which , he was now fully convinced that the doctrine of the trinity was not the doctrine of the New
Testament . This open avowal threw the congregation into a greater ferment than ever . Mr . Green appeared to have entered
into very correct views of the doctrine of the divine unity , and boldly undertook its defence , and a . refutation of triiiitariamsrn * He
said that when Mr . Elliot ' s book came out he got it ^ and turned to the chapter on the pre-existence of Christ ' s human soul ; that he read it and turned to every passage Mr . Elliot cited , and finding that there was not any thing in any
one of them to support what he contended for , his mi rid was prejudiced against any further in . quiry ; and this he said-, was the reason of the question which he had put to me in the begiuning of the controversy .
Mr . Graen , however , in defending his newly received sentiments , was precipitate , unguarded , and as violent against his trinitarian brethren , as he had before been
against me ; this threw him into difficulties ; questions were put to hini j which he was not fully prepared to answer ; and when I attempted to assist him , the reply was , 6 C We won ' t have your an * swer ; we don ' t ask you now , we ask Mr . Green . " In the course
of the following week , ( which was I believe the last week of his public ministry , ) Mr . Green preached several discourses pro * , iessedly upon the subject , m which he defended the doctrine of the divine unity , and refuted the
Untitled Article
trinitarian hypothesis with great ability . The shock of Mr . Green ' s jfa £ / , ( us it was called ) was felt through the whole connexion : and a £ e-
neral alarm was spread . A fast ( as I was informed ) was kept at the Lock chapel , and in several private families on the occasion . Mr . Green was given to understand , that he would not be permitted to administer the
sacrament any' more at Tottenham Court chapel . Some of the ministers and leading persons in the connexion , used every possible means to influence him to make a .
recantation . By them he was ia a measure compelled to go into the pulpit for that purpose , where all he said was , " The snare is broken , and 1 am escaped ; I will
never dispute any more ; " when , bursting into a flood of tears , they were obliged to lead him down . From that time the
distress of his mind was intolerable , and in a very few days terminated in his death . It does not appear that he ever expressed a doubt of the truth of the sentiments he had em braced ^ or a conviction that those he had
renounced were true . An account of his death was given soon after , ( I think in the Spiritual Magazine ) in which his fall is slightly noticed , but not the least intimation given , that he ever professed to have again embraced trinitarianism . I was informed
that to a friend who was with him in his last moments he said " Mr . Elliot was right .,, but people did not understand him . ''
I have been the more particular in stating the above facts , on account of what Mr . Jay has said that . " Though he ( Mr .
Untitled Article
Mr . Marsoni ' s Account of the Hev . Mr . Green . 15
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1809, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1732/page/15/
-