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They are all distinctly paged as not published at first in the collected form of a volume , and some of them have not title-pages ; but the leading subjects are specified at the head of the first page . In this series of Tracts is one
entitled , Reflections on Two Discourses concerning the Divinity of our Saviour , written by Monsieur Lamoth in French and done into
English / ' Written to J . S . 1093 . By a reference in p . 14 , it appears to have come from the pen of the same person , who was the author of another Tract in this
Collection , printed in 1692 , being * An accurate Examination ofthe Principal Texts usually alleged for the Divinity of our Saviour ; and for the satisfaction by him made to the justice of God , for the sins of inert ; occasioned by a Book of Mr . L . Mil bourn called
€ * Mysteries ( in Religion ) vindicated . " * This piece is addressed to T . F . These initials , there can be no doubt , mean the active , philanthropic citizen Mr . Thomas
Firm in ; whose character is vindicated in the preface , from the illiberal aspersions of Mr . Milbourn ' s pen , as a person who encouraged and patronized the
printing and circulation of the Unitarian Tracts . A query suggests itself here , viz . whether the other initials may not refer to Mr . John Smith , the author of 4 * The
designed end to the Socinian Controversy , " first printed in 1695 , and reprinted by the London Unitarian Tract Society in 1793 ? The third volume of the " Sociin
nian Tracts ^ ' possession of the respondent , is entitled Ct A Third Collection of Tracts , proving the God and Father of -bar Lord Jesus Christ the only
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true God ; and Jesus Christ the Son of God him whum the Father sanctified and sent * raised from the dead and exalted . And dis . orovine the doctrine of Three
Almighty , real subsisting Persons , Minds or Spirits ; giving also an account of the nominal Trinity , that is , Three Modes , Subsistencies , or Somewhats in God ; called by the schoolmen Persons ; and of the judgment of the Fathers and Catholic Church for the first
l 5 Oyears . Of which Tracts the following pages give the Titles . " Printed in the year \ 6 Q 5 . Which accordingly follow : the number of Tracts is eight , each marked by a distinct series of pages , and in
general by peculiar titles ; sarnie of them bear the date of 1694 u As Tilius Polunorum . speaks of these three volumes as , in his hands , there is no occasion , on his-account , to specify the titles they bear . -
It will be more satisfactory to inform him that the -writer of this has now before his eyes , a , thick quarto , lettered on the back
" Socinian Tracts , Vol . 4 and 5 . ' On opening it , offers a page with this inscription , viz . < 4 A Fourth Collection of Tracts relating to the Doctrine of the Trinityy : &c . The Titles whereof are in the next
Leaf- ' . ' There is no date oriany other note of printing or piiblicatiop . The several Tracts aitfiidistinguished by the following descriptions * .
The Divine Unity once , more asserted ; or some Consideration ! tending to prove , that , <^ P < 4 < J * ^ one single Being , &c * in 24 ? pag es . Printed in the year . 1697 >
Reformation in wQ ^ shipfWdg o God required * , according 4 ; to * th « mean * afforded of a clearer Kflow-
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>| 44 XJr * Toulmin on the Socinian Mr acts .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1813, page 444, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2430/page/20/
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