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    first cause , he nrnst know that the orthodox contend that Father , Son and Spirit , are but one Ood ; while they ask this , and all other objectors , what authority have you to assert that the diVitie Unity must be like your own ? So that iri spite of any thing the Deity himself can . say to . prove the contrary , you will assert the Trinity absurd , contradictory and impossible .

    The whole tendency and design of this paper shews , that it would not be § afe to trust his cause to be tried in the court of scripture , and therefore , he has prejudged it , by attempcing to prove that the Trinity is so absurd and irrational , that the scriptures cannot teach it ^ While he is of this mind , let the bible- 'say what it niay , he must force his own constiuction upon its language , so as to conclude , that when it says black it means white , because 'he has in his own imagination proved that it cannot mean black , but ought to mean white . This indeed , is a method of proceeding -which shews his perspicacity and policy ; for had he trusted his cause to be tried by an unbiassed jury of prophets and apostles , he would inevitably have been cast and condemned . But , if after this he were to pretend impartially to search the scriptures , and one were to believe him , it would only shew his disingenu-

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    ousness and our foolish credulity ; for he has already convicted himself of prejudice and partiality , by attempting to prove , before he opens the bible , that the Trinity is such a doctrine that the scriptures cannot mean to teach it let

    them say what they may . It would be a stupid waste of time to argue with such a man out of the scriptures , after he has confessedly adopted an hypothesis which renders it impossible for him to hearken to what they say .

    Indeed , while the writer maintains his present tenets it would be impossible for the Deity himself to convince him of the Trinity , or of any other doctrine which the man should chase to prejudge in the same way ; for were the Deity with an audible voice from the skies

    to Say the same things as Trinitarians , to prove the Trinity , this man would say he must mean something the reverse . Thus , unhappily , many deists cut them * selves off from the Gospel by the same partial , presumptuous tone of mind , concluding before-hand , that a revelation is

    needless and impossible , as Tom Paine asserts , and therefore , that they are authorized by this sweeping conclusion to spurn at all the pretences to prove the existence of that which they have before proved to be needless , absurd and impossible .

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    494 Inquiry conierning Otdirtaiion .

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    To ( he Editor of the Monthly Repository .

    Mr . Editor , Tn perusing your last number , ( p . 4 O 6—4 C 9 . ) I , was much gratified with the account you gave of the Academical Institution at York . The importance of the plans there pursued for affording to our societies enlightened , and respectable Ministers , will be questioned by none who have examined the subjects to which the attention of the "Students is directed . To receive the approbation of such visitors t > s Mr . Turner-and Mr . Yates , must , by those who truly estimate character , be deemed of greater conse-

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    V INQUIRY CONCERNING ORDINATION . 1 . ¦ 1

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    quence than the affixes of B . A . or A . M . It is from the hig h , opinjon in which these gentlemen are held by those to whom they arc known , and by the additional , weight attached to the names , Mr . Turner recommends in his address to the young men who are about to leave the Seminary at York , that I presume to direct your attention to the subject there introduced —Ordination . There are few authorities for which I feel a higher reverence than tor those of Holland , Turner , senr . and Wood . They were worthy of the highest praise for

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1809, page 494, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1740/page/20/