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shows that they arexronscious that a denial of the unity of God wotiki be a denial of the truth , and thai to worship any being who is not properly God , would be idwlatrv . Hence it follows
that Unitarians an * saved the trouble of proving their grand leading tenet ,- their opponents being compelled tq ^ concede it . It only remains for them to show that the
doctrine and worship of the trinity is incompatible with the doctrine and worship of one God . The proof of this seems easy . Plurality and unity ore in opposition ; for how can three persons , subsistences , or intelligent agents , each of which is God and
Lprd , be one undivided God and Lord- ? To say that the three divine persons are one essence or nature , and that the divine essence
or nature is the same in each that each person possesses it whole and entire , by n 6 means proves them to be one undivided being ; but rather supposes them to be
three co-equsrt-beings . Humanity is the one common nature or essence of mankind ; but will any person say , because all men exist in one nature or essence , therefore but one man exists ? Yet with " as much propriety might it be said , that a plurality
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126 * Reason and Revelation ;
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REASON AND REVELATION .
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January 10 , 1809 , Reason ami Revelation are descendants of the sajne immortal Pareni ; they are both of them the offspring of eternal wisdom * and were gent into this world to guide , ixien to immortality and glbry ,: Reason is the elder bprnj vutJ&evsfati&n , though the young-
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er , is the more enlightened . Had not Reason been bropght forth , Revelation could never have existed ; for Revelation can be made only to rational creatures . Were Reason to- expire or cease to operate , Revelation would become quite useless , for the latter can be of use only in 'proportion a § the
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of human persons , existing in one essence or nature , make but one man , as that a plurality of divine persons , existing hi one nature or essence , make but one God : and if a plurality be admitted , it matters not whether the number be
three or three millions . How can the essence remain undivided if it exist in distinct persons ; for rf the persons be distinct , the es * - sence must be distinctly in each . So long as Trinitarians admit the divine unity , they ia # h > it what is 1
fatal to their own ' system . When they pray to the trinity , they pray to a compound being , consisting of distinct persons , not to one simply indivisible being . When they pray to the three persons
distinctly , jhey worship three ob ~ jects , instead of one undivided object , the one and only God . Such worship is condemned by what themselves are constrained
to admit , the unity of God , which supposes him to be one object only . If these remarks be favoured with a plaee in your useful
miscellany , I will go on to show how reputed orthodoxy refutes itself on other points oi doctrine . I am Sir , Yout h s , &c . CRITO .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1809, page 126, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1734/page/6/
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