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consisting of " Facts relating to the Unitarian Controversy / ' and €€ Serious Questions to all Lovers of Christian Truth /* This was replied
to by a Clergyman , and the author here enters upon its defence . His tc Letter" is in a good spirit , and may be useful beyond the limits of the local controversy .
One of the " Facts" stated by Mr Mardon , and numbered 11 , is as fol lows :
" Luther , the celebrated Reformer , seriously objected to the use of the word Trinity . He observes , * The word Tririity sounds oddly , and is a human invert tion ; it is better to call Almighty God , Gody than TrinityJ Calvin , in reference to a prayer of the Romish Missal , which has been copied into the Liturgy of the
English Churchy exclaims , ' I like not this prayer , O holy , blessed , and glorious Trinity ; it savours of barbarity : the word Trinity is barbarous , insipid , profane ^ a human invention , grounded in no testimony of God's word ; the Popish God , unknown to Prophets and Apostles . "—P . 5 .
The Clergyman seems to wish to doubt the correctness of the statement , and Mr . Mardon thus answers : € C You have intimated your wish to have those remarkable passages specified , in which the celebrated Reformers , Calvin and Luther , have expressed their dislike of the word Trinity , and of a
leading form of invocation in the Litany . The references are giveu by a clergyman of your own Church , whose accurate learning and diligence of investigation I have never heard called into question : the late Rev , Henry Taylor , Vicar of Crawley , Hants . " Calvini Admon . 1 , ad Polonos * " Lutheri Postil . major Dominic .
" I have myself copied the following passage from an edition of the Works of Calvin , in folio , ( Amsterdam , 1667 , ) Vol . VIII . p . 591 , which I shall quote for your own satisfaction in the ordinal , and subjoin a translation for the benefit of English ' readers .
" Quidqirid blaterent virulentae linguae , in hftc fide acquiescent semper tutum erit ; sicdti utile quoque spiuosis raultis quaestionibus ansam praecidere simulquc supersede re & forimilis loquendi vel minium aspens ; vel h Scriptural usu r ^ motis . Precatio vulga trita est , Sancla
Trinitas , imus Dens , miserere nostri , ivihi non placet , ac oivjnino barbarism sapit . Nolein igitur vos de rebus super-
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vacuis litigare , modo Ulibitum ruaneat quod dixi < Je t rib us iii un& ease ^ uS , Personis . ' * ' * Whatever virulent tongues may bluster , in this faith it will be ^ twa , ys
safe to acquiesce 5 as also it will be desirable to remove the occasion for many perplexing questions , and to desist from forms of expression either too uncouth , or too far removed from the usage of Scripture . The common prayer is become trite — ' Holy Trinity , one God ,
pity us , ' does not please me , and alto , gether savours of barbarity , I should therefore be unwilling for you to dispute about empty trifles ; only let that instruction which I gave you concerning three Persons in one essence , remain pure / "—Pp . 27 , 28 .
In a P . S . the author adds , € f Since this letter was sent to the printer , I have found that an Edition of Luther ' s Works in the original , is deposited in the Parochial Library of Maidstone . The passage from , which the clause in Fact No , 11 , is quoted , is exceedingly remarkable * and well deserves
the attention of the Clergyman , and of every other supporter of the Trinitarian phraseology in the Litany . He will find it in Vol . V ., fol , 282 , of the above-mentioned edition . It is evident from this , that Luther would have required a considerable change in the Church-of Eugland Liturgy , before he Could have consistently used it . And are the Protestants of the nineteenth century to be less enlightened than Luther ? " —P . 6 .
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622 Review . ^ -Benr&e Vindication of the Middleton Unitarians .
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Art . VIII . — A Vindication of the Conduct of the Middleton Unitarians , and the Supreme Divinity of the Father asserted , in Two Letters addressed to the Author of * The Middleton Unitarian Review
reviewed . " By J . R . Beard . Manchester , printed . Sold in London , by R . Hunter . 1826 . 12 ino . pp . 35 . 6 d . SHORT time ago , the Unitarian A Society at Middleton , one of the
statious of the Lancashire and Cheshire Unitarian Missionary Society , were grossly attacked from the pulpit by a Calviniat minister of that place . Owing to this circumstance a few members of the Unitarian
congregation were induced to invite the minister to a friendly discussion of the doctrine of the Deity of Christ . lhe minister , however , refused to enter
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1826, page 622, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2553/page/50/
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