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met with at this period , and of the contest which -was going On in all the ranks of society respecting the question . Even in the days of Athanasius , who flourished in the fourth century , * the multitude' pained the orthodox by their adherence to Christian simplicity . Let it not be thought that even the orthodoxy of the age was the same as is now current . No—those who corrupted
and those who retained the simple teachings of Jesus , alike give , but in different ways , evidence of the prevalence of Unitarianism . Origen himself contends most strenuously and at length , that prayer was due only to God the Father . Novatian , in a work on the very subject of the Trinity—so—if the title be > his , which we doubt , he styles his book from its treating , not of a threefold God , but a threefold operation—Novatian , about fifty years after
Origen ( a . d . 250 ) , omits any assertion or proof of the deity of the Holy Ghost , though he labours ^ and in such a way as to show that Unitarianism was prevalent and well-defended in his day , to establish the deity of Christ ; attributing , at the same time , some kind of supremacy to the Father . More direct and much more indirect evidence might , if necessary , be adduced . Meanwhile tfee process of corruption was , in the hands of the ecclesiastics , proceeding rapidly . In vain the Unitarians contended strenuously
for their simple and primitive faith . Learning and talent were on the side of their opponents , and where these were , there also were the sure pledges of success * In vain Unitarian ministers strove to arrest the flood : it was stronger than they . In vain their people solaced them when persecuted for their principles : this might afford comfort , but not victory . In vain had they the majority on their side ; what the few wanted in numbers , they made up in power .
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$ 66 &ise and Progress of ike Doctrifie of the Trinilif *
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Welcome , once more , Flower of the pale cold bell , Sure it some spirit is I so chaste and pure Its pendant head , as it would ring" the knell Of hoary Winter in hia dying hour—And well one sigh from thing- so fair might lure The frozen stream back to his wither e d heart , Arid warm the hand of Death !
Constant and true it is , it will not part From its accustom'd haunt—and when the breath Of wanton 35 ephyrus would touch its cheek , Congeal * it into snow . A tale there goes , That once a gentle girl , tender and meek , Died for the love of the bright God of Day—¦ When straight her Spirit to this flow ' ret rose- — And now he vainly courts her with his ray .
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THE SNOW-DROP .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1832, page 266, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1810/page/50/
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