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A modern Example of Tritkeism . 735
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the joint name of himself and of 3 orae one or more of his associates ; as of Sosthenfcs in the first , and of Timothy in the second to the Corinthians , &cf , &c . ; while the reasonings , admonitions , &c , are understood to be Paul ' s exclusively . It is , besides , in our
author ' s manner to speak of himself occasionally in the plural number . 1 Thess . ii . 18 may perhaps bi deemed an ambiguous example ; even though it be interpreted by the two following verses . But cih . iii . 1 , and many other passages of the same form , are une * quivocal . N .
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Evesham , Sir , October 4 , 1824 . YO UR correspondent , € C A Colvinist , " in your last number , ( p , 536 , ) complains of " erroneous statement" in your pages , when the orthodox system concerning the Trinity , &c , is referred to ; and of Trinitarians
he says / that 4 € m their own conceptions , they fully believe and strenuously assert the Unity of God . " I beg leave to refer him and your readers to the report of a sermon preached by the Rev . T . G . Ackland , A . M ., St . Mildred ' s Bread Street , May 25 th , 1823 , Trinity Sunday , text—Psalm
lxxiii . 15 , given in an orthodox periodical publication , called the Pju £ pit , Vol . I . p . 116 : ' * Having thus proved the eternal existence of three Gods , each to be acknowledged and
worshiped as God , and it being distinctly commanded that we should worship hut one God ; it follows of necessity that the Unity in Trinity , and the Trinity in Unity must so—and only so , be worshiped / ' Can words express a greater contradiction ? The reporter remarks , * On the present , as on ail occasions that we have had
the pleasure of hearing Mr . A ., we were well pleased to observe the thorough acquaintance which he displayed with the doctrines of revealed truth , and the great ability and zeal with which he sought to impress them on the minds of his hearers / ' Had it
not been for the above remark , one would hav 6 been tempted to suspect the reporter to be some waff that wished to turn the sermon of the Kev . Mr . Ackland to ridicule D .
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Homer ten , Sir , November 4 , 1824 . HAD it been convenient to have favoured my answer to Mr BakewelPs first letter , sent to you about three weeks ago , with insertion in the last number of the Repository ,
I think it would have appeared that I had by anticipation replied to all the material parts of his second letter . I have brought forwards n | y witnesses , in support of what I had asserted ; he has adduced his on the contrary side : let the public judge between us .
It is no pleasure to me to receive or to relate statements to the discredit of either individuals or communities . Most sinqerely should I rejoice , could I Jbelieve it Mo ' be the fact , as Mr . B . asserts , that « Geneva is eminently distinguished for the superior
excellence of its morals ; " and that it " has escaped , if not entirely , at least in a great measure , the contagion of infidelity . " I have given my evidences for thinking- differently : but I repeat that I shall most cordially rejoice , i £ on this question of fact , my information should be found incorrect . I
fear , however , that it is far otherwise . To the benevolence and generosity of the Genevese , in relieving the distresses of their Savoyard neighbours , I would give all honour : and I thank Mr . Bakeweil for mentioning : the
interesting facts . But these do not disprove my assertions . Nothing is more certain than that men may hare much compassion for the temporal sufferings of others , and may contribute nobly to the promotion of benevolent objects ;
while they have no sense of the moral misery of sin in themselves , nor desire to remove it from others , but are manifestly irreligious , and even infidel and immoral . The philanthropy which
feeds and clothes the body , praiseworthy and excellent as it is , is not a Christian virtue if it have not unspeakably stronger feelings for the guilt and misery of a sinful state , the moral slavery and degradation of the soul . It is observable that Mr . B , himself ,
or one of his principal authorities , explicitly disavows reli g ion as the leading cause of the high morality which he attributes to the modern Genevese . He thus cites the testimony of one of his friends : ' * Geneva is unquestionabl y the most moral city in Europe : tins t do not attribute to t / ieir
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1824, page 735, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2531/page/31/
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