On this page
-
Text (1)
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
which the Trinity was brought to its perfect state must be granted . It is a question , however , if the reward of victory does not countervail its price . Men , more curious than cautious , have endeavoured to penetrate other mysteries connected with this sublime subject . To determine whether Christ , in being born , opened the womb of his mother , and the exact manner in which three persons
can he one God , and two natures one person— -how a Father can . have a Son as old as himself , or what degree of honour is due to the blood of that Divine Son , has occupied the heads and the pens of many to little purpose . Without the aid of councils nothing positive can be decreed ; and on points of such nicety , a state of doubt is not , perhaps , a state of peril ; yet the spirit of this age , which improves all other things , may change even the .
Trinity ; but , whether by increase or diminution , time only can put beyond a doubt . Some conjecture , however , may be formed by the reader , if he be pleased to recollect the spirit of the age in which the chief parts of the Trinity were constructed , and that spirit he may learn by the acts for which it is ever memorable . To enumerate these evils in detail would require a volume . The gross corruptions of the Roman Church , at the time of the
reformation , had doubtless , grown through the progress of later centuries , but the germ of all of them is to be found in the same age which brought forth the doctrine of the Trinity . During that period transubstantiation was engendered—a fit associate for a dogma declaring three to be one . During that period the worship of saints and angels was established , illustrating the ease with which Christian professors could multiply the objects of their
adoration . During that period monkery spawned its ceaseless progeny , covering the land—east , west , north , and south—as the frogs of the second plague covered the land of Egypt . The first religion was debased by its junction with the civil power : then the whole flood of bad passions was let in upon the Church—then began religious wars , the foulest spot on the Christian name—*
then the clergy took tithe—then miracle-mongers began their trade—then dead men ' s bones became objects of respect , and a dead woman the object of worship—then was the sway of the , priesthood begun , established , and settled , which proved to Christendom a worse evil than all the ten plagues did to Egypt—then
the power of Him of the triple crown was set up on prostrate thrones , and prostrate people , and prostrate reason ; and , curious it is—yet the two acts are of a kindred spirit—the council that finished the Trinity was the first to supply Christendom with a Pope .
Untitled Article
Rise and Progress of the DoctriTie of the Trinity . 323
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1832, page 323, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1812/page/35/
-