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viting aspect . These varying pictures are not only unlike each other , but have no real resemblance to the original doctrine of which they profess to be portraits . These modern sketches are of course
denied by others to contain the leading features of those orthodox images , whicb they have been accustomed to worship , instead of the One only true God , as made known to us by Jesus Christ and his apostles .
Sucb appears to be the case witb your correspondent A . B . who , in your last number , p . 307 5 under a profession of giving your readers ' * correct information ' respecting " the belief of the Friends , " has , in the commencement of his
remarks , strangely , but I would hope inadvertently , misrepresented its object . He informs us that a paper inserted p . 11 O , of your present volume , is said to contain the " Quaker doctrine of the Trinity . ' ' Yet its title as there given is not so ,
either in form or substance , but u On the Unity of the Godhead , under the different appellations of Father , Son and Holy Spirit . " And the paper itself retains nothing but the shadow of a modal Trinity , and that so faintly drawn , as not to conceal the Sabellian features
underneath . A- B . next tells us , that he believes < c this paper is not to be found in any of their accredited authors . "— -Perhaps not . —It is ,
probably , however , " an original production / ' of an highly accredited member of the Society of Friends , who furnished your intelligent correspondent , N . C « with it , as an exposition of the faith . of his brethren , at all events
of his own . Arid it appears to m ^ to be perfectly consonant to
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the doctrine of their most approved authors , as disavowing any distinction of persons in the Deity . By substituting the editor ' s
running title to the article in which the above paper is inserted , in the place of that prefixed to it by the writer , A . B- contrives to insinuate that the " doctrine of the
Trinity' * is esteemed by the Quakers , as an 44 important article of Christian faith /' How does this appear ? Not by the paper A . B . objects to , as not
having been written by an ace re . dited author , nor by his extract from Sewers History of the Qua . kers , especially if the context be considered , and the occasion on which this Confession
of Faith was compiled and published , viz , * ' To manifest that their belief was really orthodox , and agreeable with the holy scrip tures . * Consistently with this object , its authors not only avoid all mention of the Trinity , but where
they do not confine themselves to scriptural terms ? they refer to the texts by which they supposed each tenet spoken of was supported . I may well add , that such a selection of texts as they referred to on this occasion , were never adduced in favour of the doctrine of the
Trinity , upon any hypothesis . Yet among thirty or forty of these , there are two or three which are generally known by all competent judges to be corruptly rendered in the received version .
These explanatory references to the authority of the text , A . B % omits . I give them as stating the doctrines in question , with greater precision and clearness , than the extracts be has made , can of themselves *
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374 Quaker Doctrine of the Trinity .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1813, page 374, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2429/page/18/
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