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I ?— . ON CHRISTIAN IDOLATRY ., *
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From the earliest ages of the world , mankind Irave been addicted to idolatry . When God revealed his will by his servant Moses , his first command was , "Thou shalt have none other
Gods but me , ' This clear and positive injunction is so plain , that it seems almost impossible for mento misunderstand , or to misrepresent it : it was strictly observed by Abraham , Isaac , Jacob , and Moses , and all the prophets
under the old dispensation , and also by Jesus Christ , his Apostles , and disciples , under the new . It appears , however , that in the following ages of the church , Christians , like the Israelites of
old , becatrie tired * of the worship of one ^ od , attH were desirous of adding two others to be joined with him , as objects of religious ; worship : but the difficulty was , how to accomplish this , without a manifest breach of the first
commandment ; it was , however , at last effected * by the ingenious invention of a new system of theological arithmetic , by which it was made to appear , that ? objects of religious worship In the Christian church were not to be
counted by vulgar numbers ; but that one Grod means three Ctods , ami that ttiree Gods are not a greater *< ttriber ' tfrah one ; tut that both
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1 % the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
SepL 30 , 1 S <> 9 . sir , The method I ^ doptto ascertain the meaning q > f any particular form of expression in Scripture ,
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numbers are in reality the same , namely , number one . By this judicious mode of calculation , it was easily proved , that , < c Thou sbalt have i * ofte other Gods but ¦ ¦ ¦ me , ' * means , ** Thou shah have none ^ other Gods but us three . **
On this clear proof , that it w ^ perfectly consistent with the firsf commandment , two additional Gods were added to the " one
only living and true God . Ibis new arithmetic has been zealously taqght for many years by tbeCalvinists and the Catholics , though the hearers of both have at
different times , intimated some suspicion , that it was a paradoxical inconsistency , the very reverse of the simplicity of the gospel taught by Jesus Christ . In order to stO R the progress of such suspicions ,
the Catholic clergy very properly prohibited their hearers the use of the Bible . The Calvinistic clergy , not choosing to be behind hand wi ' th-their brethren , took a more effectual step : they prohibited their flocks the use of their reason .
Both these prohibitions were well calculated to answer tlje same purpose ; of the two , I think the CfUyiijists' the more objectionable . But th objections must be defer * red until another opportunity . a di 3 cipi . e of tjj s Old School .
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CUBIST THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD .
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is to examine all the places where it occurs ; and the connexion in which it stands in every instance * I fipd the phrj&se only-begotten applied to Christ by the Apoftlc
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1809, page 661, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1743/page/11/
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