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    ties which limit human nature ? Who that is in the habit of attending the religious assemblies of Trinitarians , or reading tbeir devotional compositions in prose and verse , will compare the manner in which the Father is addressed

    by them with that fervour and vehemence which characterizes their distinct petitions to the Son ? Who that peruses their favourite charge of coldness i against Unitarian worship , will not discern in it ,

    what their own feelings would be if they had none but the eternal Jehovah for the object of their worship ? Who that considers the acrimony of their invectives against Unitarians , does not perceive that f in their estimation , the doctrine of this class of Christians amounts

    to Atheism ; and that to deny the Deky of Christ , is in effect to deny all of the Divine Nature , in which they have much concern ox interest ? For , surely , if this were not so , this sect every where

    spoken against might conciliate « orne portion of their esteem , by the zeal and success with which , outcasts as they are from the camp of orthodox Christianity , they have fought for the sake of their common faith *

    The objections that lie against ( the doctrine of the Trinity in this view are , that it contracts our conceptions of the Divine Nature , indisposes us for that enlarged comprehension , that laborious re * search and constant meditation

    which we might so projfitably era . ploy , in gaining a knowledge of the works , the word , and the providence of God ; and , finally , sane , lions and authorises those tre

    mendous doctrines of Calvinism , which even CalvinisU themselves

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    cannot bear in tbeir unmitigated severity . I cannot discover any other tendency of the doctrine of th $ Trinity which can with any plau * sibility be considered beneficial ;

    if you should think what I have now written worthy of admission , I shall take a future opportunity of considering , in a similar manner the practical benefits which would result from a steady Christian faith on Unitarian principles ;

    which I hope to be able to shew , favourable to virtue and piety , to a sincere and ardei > t love of Christ , to an animating contemplation of future hopes , to ** vital godUpes $ and holy living . A- *

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    Defence of the * Positions of Mr * Capped July 9 , 1814 . Sir ,

    The difficulty expressed by your correspondent N . © . ( p . 382 , 333 ) respecting the following position in Mr , Cappe ' s Discourses on Providence , is that nothing Can take place contrary to the Diviite Will , or that proceeds not from his determination /* is the more

    extraordinary , as he admits { tp use his own words ) * that all movement and successive efffeet may be the result of divine will and determination . " Now if all

    effects and results proceed from the divine will , how c « m any pt those lesser circumstances upon which they depend , be contrary to it ?

    * We shall be ready to give insertKMi to the further communications of thi * intelligent correspondent . Md .

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    40 $ Defence of the Positions of Mr . Cepp **'

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1814, page 406, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2442/page/22/