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mirperically three at the same time be only numerically one . It would be extremel y arrogant to say , that an almighty and infinitely wise Being cannot make all the evil which exists / subservient
to good ; but , with the utmost humility it may be said , even omnipotence cannot make what is numerically three to be at the same time only numerically one ; because it involves contradiction .
2 . This writer charges me with misrepresentingtrinitafianism but he has not produced a single proof in support of his charge : he has , indeed , taken for granted , that anti-trinitariahs are in the
habit of misrepresenting their opponents , and declaimed on such supposed mis-statements ; but he ought to have recollected , that charges without proofs are slanders He asserts , that all my argumentation against many Gods is
ridiculous , when directed against trinitarianism : and why ? because , forsooth , after trinitarians have asserted , that there are three persons , or intelligent agents , each of which is by himself God , they add , there is but one God ; or , as this writer chooses to express himself , « That while there is but one God , he has revealed himself to us as existing with the Unity of his essence in the threefold
distinction of Father , Son , and Spirit . " Jf Trinitarians choose to maintain contradictions , their opponents ought not to be blamed tor that , nor deterred from retuting the polytheistical part of their system . If this writer can prove , that God Ki . has revealed himself
as existing \ yith the' Unity of his essence in the threefold distinction ° f-Father , Son , and Spirit , " ho Wtt gain Jus c&use , and I chal-
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lenge him to the proof . It may be attended with some difficulty for him to prove , that God < 6 with , the Unity of his essence * exists as a Son ; and it may be proper for him to show , if God be a Son , who is God ' s Father ; for every Son must have a Father : and ife
will not be amiss lor him to use less abstruse and mysterious terms , than he has done in his present statement . 3 . This opponent charges me
with arguing on the Unity of the Deity , in a loose , unsatisfactory way ; but * however loose and unsatisfactory my remarks may be ^ he has not dared to look them ,
fully in the face , nor to attempt an answer to the questions which I put f «> r the solution of trinitari ^ ans , and this I now challenge him to do . As to his saying , he be .
lieves both the Unity and Trinity from the word of God a Catholic may say he believes transithstantiation from the word of God : % S M % . « V M V M . A MM \ S I A . M . «* & & V » « V- ^ Jk » - * V ^ * ^— " * f \ A A
but what do such assertions prove ? If he choose to believe contradict tions , and father them on the Word of God , I cannot help it ; but when he blames me for finding
fault with his creed , he ought to-give me something more than mere assertions . 4 . I had argued that only one infinite person is necessary to enable us to account for every thing
that appears in the visible universe , that consequently it is irrational to suppose the existence of more than onesuch person , especially as a plurality of such persons could not effect more than one ; for he
who is infinite , can do every thing that is possible -even for Deity to do . This was the substance of my argument , which this writerj under his fourth head , turns
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A Constant Reader ' s Re $ lyto nn Inconstant Reader . 6 lS
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1809, page 615, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1742/page/29/
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