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u The sorrow "which the anger of God produced w ^ is unparalleled * I seek not for its equal on earth * Sickness , thou hast no pang ; destitution , thou hast no horrors ; fear , thou hast
no misgivings ; remorse , thou hast no sting , like this anguish ^ Seek not for its equal in hell . There every one bears his own burden ; but Christ endured the misery due to all his own , Thfr wrath distributed in all
these vials was collected into his cup- ' The man who could pen this libel on the character of the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ , could not , it seems , in conscience receive a collection from
the Unitarians at Falkirk , towards the support of the public charityschool there , when its funds were in a state of exhaustion , because " the Christianity of Socinians is
Christianity stripped of its brightest glories , and their religion frowns on the noblest movements of the heart : degrading to the character of the Redeemer , and ruinous to the souls of men . ' * *
Surely he was not aware how he was thus stripping the character of Deity of its brightest glory , and outraging all the noblest mavemeuts of the heart . Surely he could never have read these words of the Redeemer , " Therefore doth my Father love me , because 1 lay down rny life / ' John x . 17 .
Or , if he would wish to see to what an extent the mind may get puzzled with nice distinctions , when it has once quitted the simple scriptural doctrine of one God the Father , and ; Mediator between God and men , the man Christ Jesus , let him try to make sense of the following extract from
Bishop Bevreridge . ( Private Thoughs , Part ii . pp . 48 , 49 . ) " We are now to consider the order of these persons in the Trinity , described in the words before us , ( Matt , xxviii . 19 , ) first the Father , then the Son , and then the Holy Ghost , every on © of which is really and truly God , and yet they all are but one real and true God . A mystery which we are all bound to believe , yet must have a great care
? See am Appeal to the Serious and Candid Professors of Christianity , on behalf of Unitarian Christians . By T , 8 . Smith , M . JX Edinburgh , printed for Constable , 1815 . A most important and interesting tract .
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how we speak of it ; it being both easy and dangerous to mistake ir > expressing so mysterious a truth as this is . If we think of it , how hard is it to contemplate upon one numerical , divine nature , in more than one and
the same divine person , or upon three divine persons in no more than one and the same divine nature ? If we speak of it , how hard is it to express it ? If 1 say , the Father , Son and Holy Ghost are three , and every one
distinctly God , it is true ; but if I say they are three , and every one distinct Gods , it is false . I may say , the divine persons are distinct in the divine nature ; but I cannot sjiy , the divine nature is divided into the
divine persons . I may say , God the Father is ori £ God , and the Son is one God , and the Holy Ghost is one God , but I cannot say , that the Father is one God , and the Son another GoA 9 and the Holy Ghost a third God . I
may say , the Father begat another who is God , yet 1 cannot say , that he begat another God : and from the Father and the Son proceedeth another who is God ; yet I cannot say , that from the Father and the Son
proceedeth another God . For all this while , though their nature be the same , their persons are distinct ; and though their persons be distinct , yet still their nature is the same : so that , though the Father be the first person in the Godhead , the Son the second , and the Holy Ghost the third , yet the Father is not the first , the Son the
second , and the Holy Ghost the third God . So hard a thing is it to word so great a mystery aright , or to fit so high a truth with expressions suitable and proper to it , without going one way or another froru it . " If such be the perplexity of a u Master in Israel" to settle the terms in which he may safely express himself on that € < faith , without which he cannot be saved , " and if such be the ease , and yet such the danger , of
mistake , how must the Unitarian rejoice that his Master requires nothing from him in order to eternal life , but to " acknowledge the Father as the only true God , and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent "! John xvii . 4 . WILLIAM TURMEK .
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© 14 Mr . Turner on * the Representations of the Deity .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1818, page 614, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2481/page/14/
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