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brethren of the inconsistency of it , and to guard the Society against its consequences . For this laud , able conduct he h ^ s bee n most strangely disowned by the district meeting of which he was a member ; not indeed on any specific charge , but on vague and ambiguous charges of holding opinions inconsistent with those of his
friends ; and having become a member of another Society , fyc . When , in fact , he only became a common subscriber to the Christian Association for the distribu . tion of religious books !
That the aforesaid symptom of our Society ' s declension from the principles of our forefathers , was apparent to others as well as to him , was but too true . I have to lament the fact .
Within the last month , I have witnessed an instance of the public avow , al of Trinitarian doctrine , by one of our most approved ministers , in these express words , at the conclusion of a prayer , — " Father , Son , and Holy Ghost , three persons and one God ! " Neither was
this language new to me , though renewedly painful . Now , I would ask , What is this , but to proclaim the Son an object of worship , in common with our Father and his Father , and the personality of the Holy Ghost ? What is it less than
to ^ proclaim explicitly , the doctrine of a trinity of persons in the Godhead f If this phraseology be allowable among Friends , tvhat right have we to disclaim any longer the ' term Trinity ,
because not to be found in the scrip , lidresf And if we have no creed , fend have never pretended i as a bo # y , to explain the sdripturefs , u £ on > wha £ warraritable ground Can holiest Thomas Foster stand e # - frtted ? If itcouM be . any real or
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imaginary good to him , not to be separated from such a society , I should contend that his brethren can have no Christian right to hold him expelled . For it is a fact , that his only offence has , in sub * stance , been his pleading the sound scriptural doctrine of the worship of one God ^ in opposition to a Trinity , —in agreement with his ancient Friends , " with the
testimony of prophets and apostles , —and of Jesus Christ himself , the chief corner-stone of the church of God . " I am , with all due respect , Thy obliged Friend , CD *
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QuaJter Doctrine of the Trinity . " SOf
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Quaker Doctrine of the Trinity * To the Editor . Thy correspondent N . C . has furnished thy readers with a paper , said to contain the Ci Quaker doctrine of the Trinity / ' which is not , I believe , to be found in any of their accredited authors . I send the following passages for
the perusal of N . C . and such of thy readers as are desirous of gaining correct information of the belief of the Friends oji this important article of Christian faith *
They are extracted from Sewers History of the Quakers , vol . ii . pagfcs 497 and 499- * The edition was printed in London , by William Phillips , in 1811 . The confession of faith from which these paragraphs are taken was published in London , or * behalf of the Society , in 1693 .
' ** We sincerely profess faith m Grid by his only begotten Son JesiVs Christ , as berng our light and life , our only way to the Father , and also our only mediator and advocate with the Father . " That God created all things ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1813, page 307, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2428/page/23/
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