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the scriptural doctrine of redemption by the blood of Christ , —or is it the Trinitarian gloss of vicarious satisfaction and imputed sift and righteousness , and the death of a God-man , that Lord Bolingbroke charges with being € repugnant to all our ideas of order , of justice , of goodness , and even of theism ? ' How will the Trinitarian rebut the charge to the satisfaction of a reasoning opponent ? Thanks to the reasonableness of scriptural
Christianity , the charge falls harmless before the Unitarian ' s faith . And is it th ^ Christian divine of the Unitarian , or of the Trini * tarian school , that the same writer accuses of * owning Gdd s existence only to censure his works and the dispensations of his providence ? ' Let the doctrines of original sin , and reprobation
or prseterition in the business of unconditional election , and resistless grace in this world and irremediable woe in the world to come ^ be held responsible for the reply . And of which class of doctrines is this a true , but revolting picture—* God sent his only begotten Son , who had not offended him > to be sacrificed for men who had offended him , that he might expiate their sin 3 and
satisfy his own anger ? ' One other " argument from the same writer let the Trinitarian get over as he can : it is specially addressed to him ;—the only flaw in it is the assumption that Trimtarianism and Christianity are identical . Instead of confronting ( as it is intended to do ) an argument for the Gospel , it only shows the incompatibility of the doctrine of the Trinity with the great design of revelation from first to last . € The doctrine of the Tri- »
iiity , * he says , gives the Mahometans as much reason to say that the revelation which Mahomet published was necessary to establish the unity of the Supreme Being , in opposition to the polytheism which Christianity had introduced , as Christians have to insist that the revelation which Christ published a few centuries before was necessary to establish the unity of the Godhead against Pagan polytheism * . ' f
Paine ' s Age of Reason / the most dreaded perhaps , if not the most vaunted production of modern unbelief , took occasion , from orthodoxy alone , for all the little argument it boasts , and most of its profane and indecent ribaldry . It assumes the plenary inspiration of the Scriptures , and the grossest anthropomorphism of undisguised Trinitarian theology ; and , by burlesquing the faith which many look upon with sacred awe , —by following Out into its litefral profaneness what they shroud in mystery , and
sometimes arguing with deliberate reason on that which id irrational and contradictory , —he loads orthodoxy with even more than merited opprobrium , and thinks he has disproved the truth of Revelation . Again , I say , let the Trinitarian answer Paine ' s book if he can . Watson has not answered it completely he could not , for his orthodoxy , or rather that of his church . The
* fh * citations hitherto adduced are taken frpm «< Lolaod ' f Viw tf Ifcfa $ « 4 Writers /* but bis orthodoxy vriU vouch for their correctness . 3 12
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1832, page 7713, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1824/page/51/
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