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side endeavours to prove its doctrine by inference , and the other labours to shew that the inference is not just . Both parties flatter themselves with a triumph over their adversaries ; but
in the mean time the poor , to whom the gospel was first preached , and for whom it is principally intended , ( for a rich man can hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven , ) the poor remain in a state of hesitation or uncertainty , and are bewildered in the intricate
mazes of the controversy . If I should be successful in convincing our Unitarian brethren that this is the true way of meeting our brethren of a different persuasion , I beg leave to suggest to them , that , to briflg it practically into effect , it might be expedient in all our churches to
set apart an evening in the week , when our Christian brethren , of all denominations , should be invited to hear our reasons on this great and important subject . The topics to he insisted on would be simply these : — That God is to be worshiped in the manner pointed out in the Scriptures , and in that manner only .
That the decisions of men , whether by national authority or by mutual agreement , can have no weight in this question , which lies between God and each man ' s own conscience . That our Saviour has given us a direction to whom we should pray .
That our Saviour never gave us a direction to pray to any other person but the Father . That he himself always prayed to the Father . - That we have no direction from any person authorized by our Saviour to pray to any other person but the Father .
That praying to the Trinity , to God the Son , or to God the Holy Ghost , is no where commanded in the Scriptures . That the Christian religion was intended to make us all sons of God ; that we should address the Father
with the utmost confidence , and in consequence , that we should all aim at promoting this religion in obedience to our Saviour ' s precept , € t By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples , if ye love one another /* To this last and great test of persons being Christians , too strong an appeal cannot be made . Our belief in
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712 Dr . Gale a Trinitarian .
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Clapton ^ Sin , November 13 ^ 4824 . DR . EVANS ( p . 584 ) has very properly exposed the illiberality and injustice discovered in a late Abridgment of the Religious JVorld
Displayed ; hut I submit to his consideration whether there be sufficient authority for classing Gale ( p . 585 , col . 2 ) among Antitrimiarians , who , indeed , cannot be unwilling to claim a person so respectable both as a writer and a man . Yet when Dr . Gale
published , in 1 / 11 , his learned and very satisfactory Reflexions on W < tll > he appears of the genus Trinitarian , though of what species cannot be easily discovered ; and , according to the theological reserve too commonly , though not very laudably , practised by the liberals oi his time , such a discovery was possibly beside the learned Reflector ' s purpose .
In the Reflexions ( p . 25 ) he says , that Dr . Wall "takes occasion severely to scourge the Socinians , and all that he fancies favour them any way . " He then states it as " one of the most celebrated and intricate
controversies in divinity" to decide whether the fathers held a numerical or only a specifical union in the Divine Nature . " He represents himself ( p .
26 ) € t as far from Socinianism , or Tritheism cither , " as Dr . Wall ; adding , that c * though Crellius ' s famous treatise , de uno Deo Patre , yet wants a substantial answer , —all that is there
so ingeniously and advantageously urged migl ^ t be effectually confuted to general satisfaction , " if " some learned hand would in good earnest set
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God as our Father is of little avail , ' if this belief is confined to a few of our own peculiar sect or party ; it is the faith which worketh by love , that must be impressed on all who name the name of Christ . And when
Christians are brought to an agreement in worshiping the one only and true God , the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ , a vast variety of qtiestiGtis , which now agitate the Christian world ,
and give it an appearance so totally different from what our holy religion was intended to produce , will fall of themselves , or , at any rate , will not be cause of ill-will among brethren . W . FRENEK a ^ MBiteMi
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1824, page 712, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2531/page/8/
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