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corner fcff the Churcti of Geneva to make paragraphs ! It is true that the Scotchman , Aldain ^ * last winter , and the Englishman , Drummond , last summer , came here to disseminate
intolerant exclusive mysticism . Those two qualities of their mysticism caused then * , tfc be noticed by our pastors . Dftttttnttmb has endeavoured to found here a Dissenting Chapel , and he has addressed a letter to the venerable
Cotnpany of the Pastors , in which he accuses them of not being Christians , and says that the true Christians must abstain from attending our worship , &c . He has in ( consequence produced sad divisions in some families . The Government has judged that disdain wa $ the best answer to rnake to those ¦
extravagant sectaries ; and a very great majority of the flock is of the same opinion . They have replied to Drummond by epigrams and songs . But the party of the Ultra-orthodox has supported itself by one , and even two factums of the Advocate G . Risum
teneatts * Amid ! In this ridiculous war , the young Minister M . has the honour of being inscribed in the martyrology of the sect . Well ! Has he been burnt alive , imprisoned , fexiled ? Faith , they have declared unto him , that he should not be invited
to ascend the pulpit ( for he , not being a pastor , is not privileged to ascend it without invitation , ) unless he should subscribe to the engagement , to which all our clergymen , young andold , have subscribed , in consequence of a rule of the venerable company of the 3 d of
May last . This rule has been transcribed in thfe pamphlets of our sectarians , with the pious omission of that part of it which exposes its intention , its occasion , its restrictions . This suppressed part contains , among others , this sentence- — ' without pretending in
any way to constrain the liberty of opinions . * And these gentlemen vociferate — < You wish them to tyrannize consciences P &c . &c . They represent a by-law of discipline , applied only in
these circumstances to the Church of Geneva , from a motive of peace , and exactly resembling a prohibition which the Government of Berne made to the Ministers , in the 16 th century , ( 1552 , ) Wder cimimstatices of the same kind :
* Hatdbne , . one of the two Scotish Dis-•^ rtefs of that t&mt . Ei >
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they represent it , I say , as a . canon of a synod * an article of faith . " N . B . This Drummond is very richj ( in guineas , as Mahomet Was rich in sabres , ) and he is one of the strongest supporters of the Bible Society . All this will evaporate . "
Thus far , Mr . Editor , 1 translate the letter which I have received from a very respectable friend of mine . THEOPH . ABAUZIT .
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InconHsiwafyVfilke D&efrine of the Trinity . 713
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8 m , Sandon , Nov . 5 , 181 7 * t 1 HERE are but few , if any , sub-JL jects of discussion among theological disputants , more irrational and ridiculous than the doctrine of the
Trinity ; and fhe mauner in which it is defended , or rather attempted to be defended , is equally contradictory and absurd . One wise , man begins his defence of it hy coolly telling tbose who have patience enough to listen to
him , that the Holy Trinity is a perfect mystery ? and that it does not become poor . mortals to attempt to pry into the wonderful nature of the Deity ; yet in the same breath , the wise man tells us that he believes in this doctrine
with all his heart and soul ; that is to say , he believes in that which has never been revealed or made known to him ; he believe ^ in a perfect myst £ ry . The only answer which can be usefully given to such kind of language is , that a Christian should pay
more regard to his words , and not suffer himself to be guilty of sayingwhat cannot possibly be true . Another wise man takes another course , and boldly declares that the doctrine in question is plainly and
unequivocally revealed in the writings of the New Testament , and forthwith begins to spin out a string of various wellknown texts in support of if , which he declares can have no other meaning than a Trinitarian one . Do we not
clearly read ( says he ) that " I and my Father are one" ? Which certainly must mean that we are the same equal and consubstantia f . God . If you bring to his remembrance , thtft Jesus prays , in the seventeenth chapter of John , that his disciples may be one even as he and his Father are one . the
theologian , wise as a serpent , shakes his locks , lifts up his holy hands and exclaims , " It is all a mystery ; it does not become poor mortal beings to investigate the Divine Nature ; ' who
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1817, page 713, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2471/page/17/
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