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buried ia the sacred recesses of their own bosoms . A general assembly of the clergy throughout Christendom was the consequence . Euselnus proposes a creed artfully drawn up , in which he conuunaerates the three
heavenly witnesses , exactly as they are found in the text of John ; bat leaves the unity asserted in the last clause undefined ; and thus lays it open not only for the Arian , but for the Unitarian , bishops , to subscribe it . But
this creed was overruled , and a clause , with some other amendments , was introduced , which asserts the unity in the Triad to be unity of essencey and not unity of consent > as maintained by the followers of Arius . This , indeed ,
was not affirmed in express terms ; but a new terra was invented { pf ^ cetnov , identity of essence ) that implies or inculcates this sense , merely to avoid , in the eyes of the world , running into Polytheism on one hand , or into Sabellianism on the otherThe Arians ++ ? & * *
. m ~ r "W * « - -smm ~ m •_* .. *« -m * r ^ m w « . v ^ v- ms a m . v » a . jl m . ft vy + » * m 1 V «» W * now defeated , again became triumphant , and soon after published a creed at Antioch , by which the Nicene was laid aside , and an unity of consent was substituted in the room of
unity of essence , as the true meaning of the apostle . These great events took place from the beginning * to the middle of the fourth century , about two hundred and fifty years after the death of John .
From this short view , these three conclusions necessarily follow : First , that the text of the three heavenly witnesses was known in an early age to all the learned among the Christians , who had the best copies of the New Testament , and probably the very autograph of the Apostle John ,
in their possession . —Secondly , that this text was taken away by the advocates of the divinity of Christ ; because it sets aside that doctrine , and asserts his simple humanity . —Thirdly , that to supply the place of the verse thus suppressed , a creed asserting his divinity and equality with the Father , was formed and administered to the
Christians at large , with all the solemnity of a sacrament , as the only means of securing and perpetuating the triumphs of the orthodox faith . BEN DAVID .
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8 rn , Mm ^ h 16 , 1826 . IN the Monthly Repository for January last ( pp . 29—32 ) is a letter from the Rev . William Adam , of CaU cutta , ( without date , ) to the Rev . James Yates , of Birmingham , in an , swer to one from the latter to Mr .
Adam , dated Jan . 8 , 1825 , by which it appears that the ground whereon to build the Unitarian Chapel and its appendages at Calcutta was bought , but that Mr . Adam had not at the time of his writing : received either the
means or authority for beginning the erection of the Chapel , or indeed of any plan having been forwarded to him . Considering the vast importance of the object contemplated—no less than a hope of conferring the greatest of possible blessings on (
eventually ) myriads of our fellow-creatures , I trust it will be deemed a pai'donable impatience the anxious wish of learning , through the medium of your valuable Monthly Repository , Sir , that the necessary instructions , &c , have ere this been sent over to
Mr . Adam , and that a beginning of the erection of the Chapel , &c , has been made , and is proceeding with all possible expedition , whilst deriving the incalculably great benefit of the personal aid of two such advocates to
the Unitarian cause , as Rammolmn Roy and Mr . Adam ; reflecting , though it be a painful reflection , that the possession of these " treasures is but in earthen vessels / ' \ vhich should stimulate to the most prompt exertions for accelerating the necessarv tions for accelerating the necessary
means whilst blessed with such advantages , the which is so singularly striking as to admit ( I trust without presumption ) a belief of their being agents raised up by Heaven . How else can we view at this particular period the conversion of Mr . Adam from his
long-confirmed belief in the doctrine of the Trinity to that of thd sole Unity of God ; and Rammohun Roy ' s bursting forth from the depth of the grossest idolatry , which from his infancy
he had been taught to revere , and which by the mere force of his own mighty mind he early learned to view with just abhorrence , and thence became an anxious searcher after divine
truth , by which he was led to a close and critical examination of the Christian Scriptures after he had previously acquired a thorough knowledge of the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1826, page 152, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2546/page/24/
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