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that the apostles , whose minds must have been full of so sublime a Inystery should not have taught the deity of the Son and of the Holy Ghost in Ian * guage as clear and unequivocal as that in which they have taught the deity of that Being whom we call the Father ? Trinitarians , however , are ready enough to contend that their doctrine is laid down in the New Testament in the clearest and most intelligible terms , and often reproach their opponents
with wilful and incorrigible blindness because they cannot find it there . But I ask , how it comes to pass , if their doctrine is explicitly taught in scripture , that they do not rest satisfied with expressing it in scriptural language ? Why do they adopt a phraseology of their own in preference to the express words of inspiration ? Why , I might farther ask , have they not been contented with scriptural doxologies , but have chosen rather to employ ascriptions of of
praise which scripture furnishes no example , and to which it gives no countenance ? Surely , by being thus wise above what is written , they convict themselves of error . The language of Trinitarians , indeed , when compared with the language of scripture , is most manifestly the language of men who have fabricated a system for themselves ; and it is language which is so far from bearing the impress of divine truth , that if submitted to a fair analysis , it will be found either to mean nothing or to contradict itself .
But I will add no more ; nor should I have written thus much , had I not wished , for once , to say a word or two on a doctrine , the rejection of which forms the distinguishing characteristic of that class of Christians to which for more than forty years I have professed myself to belong . E . COGAN .
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ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG LADY ON HER BIRTH-DAY , IN A COPY OF PROMETHEUS VJNCTUS WHICH HAD BEEN IN THE POSSESSION OF GILBERT WAKEFIELD . Yet , as I greet , once more , thy natal day , A boon accept ; it bears my Wakefield's name ; And , trust me , Crecia ' s tragic strains may claim
Thy youth ' s solicitude , and well repay . Ages have seen her sculptur ed forms decay , The matchless trophies of her ancient fame , When eloquence aroused the patriot flame , Or valour ranged her hosts in dread array .
Yet her sweet muses still maintain their prime a As , erst , they warbled by Uissus' stream , Still bear the palm , through every age and clime , The guides of taste , arid learning ' s favourite theme . Be thine , dear Catharine , all their charms to know ; Yet spaT'd thy life each scene of tragic woe . J . T . R . Clapton .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1829, page 306, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2572/page/10/
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