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    thatpopular Saint . What could induce any one , at first , to ^ impose a numerical paradox as an article of religion , and attempt to terrify those , whom he could not hope to argue into a persuasion of it , ' tis hard to say > but it is still more difficult to account for the tenacity with which this mysterious article of Faith is still maintained , where neither Church authority nor Church emoluments can have any influence .

    To think that the Creator of all worlds , the Omni present Deity , whose glory , whose providence , and whose attributes , are co-extended with the remotest stars—to whom this world is but a point , an atom , infinitely less than we are able to conceive—should divest himself of this boundless majesty—crowd all . his wonderful attributes into a human body—languish , suffer and die—yet remain immortal , omnipotent , immutable— - and throughout the infinity of space , continually act , with undiminished energy , as the great source of life and happiness to

    all , himself the infinitely blessed ^ ever-hving , and only true Godto believe all this , perhaps requires as wide a stretch of human credulity , as to maintain ( with the Roman Catholics ) that the Omnipresent , having first shrunk into the form and state of man , is still further contracted into their consecrated wafer— - yet all the while , retains all the fulness of the attributes , all the immensity of the nature of the Godhead ! If there should be found in the holy Scriptures ( besides mistranslations and in ^ terpolations , &c . ) any obscure text , that seems to clothe the

    Ambassador of God with some of the attributes of God himself—or to claim equal reverence for him who declares himself sent , as for the Being who sent him ; is it not manifest injustice to the Scriptures , and to ourselves , to strain such expressions into a meaning directly opposite to the plainest declarations of Jesus Christ himselt , instead of interpreting them by the general tenor of the history , and by the maxims of common sense ?— -When Jesus , taking a piece of bread , breaks it ^ and gives to his diciples—saying , ** This is my body , " we are not , I hope , at this day , required to believe that he was then

    holding , not the bread , but his own body , in his hand . When again , he says that , he and his Father are oiie '—are we to understand him as asserting that he was his own Father ? and when immediately afterwards , he tells us that he and his disciples are one—does he mean that he had but one disciple ^ and that his disciple was himself ? If we could be reconciled to the self-contradiction and bad arithmetic ol the Trinitarian sys ^ tern , we should find after all , that it is a mere question of arith * - metic—for three Beings exactly similar in essence , and agreeing in action ^ necessarily coincide m our iniaginatiop into one ,

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    A brief Statement of the Doctrine of the ^ Trinity . 191

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1807, page 191, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2379/page/23/