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    persons of the Godhead , from what was before said of the Father , —* " that through the medium of Christ he influences the minds of Christians ; and Mr . T . seems to be conscious of this difficulty , though he makes no attempt to remove it . But it behoves him to beware how he ** confounds the persons . " \

    This separate existence of the Holy Spirit , we are told , p . 153 , ( took place on the day of Pentecost after our Lord ' s ascension . From that day forward , the church of Christ is to be regarded as being under the immediate guidance of the Holy Spirit of God , in a state of separate personal existence . ' * If it be asked , how does this differ from affirming ( what every Unitarian believes ) that it was under the special guidance of God himself , it is replied ,

    that " the Deity himself is of so grand and awful a nature as hardly to admit of being approached even in thought with the composure and familiarity which are required towards a teacher and guide . " What can mote strikingly illustrate the tendency of this imaginary separation of divine attributes and offices to degrade our notions of the divine nature , to bewilder the mind of man , to distract his thoughts in seeking for grace and guidance from the one God and Father of all , the giver of every good gift 1

    We have now spent quite time enough on this scheme of explaining , or rather of explaining away , the doctrine of the Trinity . It is not likely , we think , to change the feeling generally prevalent among the most judicious and discerning patrons of this doctrine , that it is best secured by the veil of impenetrable mystery in which they have laboured to envelope it .

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    No . VL " Watchman , what of the qight ? Watchman , what of the night ? The Watchman said , The morning cometh , and also the night . " Isaiah xxi . 11 , 12 . To the subject of Revivals of Religion the attention of the Watchman has been invited from several respectable quarters . Something on the subject has already been said , but its importance , and the efforts now making in this country to get up revivals , seem to call for a more detailed notice . By

    English Revivalists the example of America is adduced to justify and recommend their exertions ; and it is highly important , therefore , to put the public in possession of a few facts respecting the disgraceful scenes which have occurred amongst our Transatlantic brethren . We shall do little more than state facts ; for our space is limited and our materials ample , and few will find any difficulty in drawing from our statements the proper moral . Some of the facts to be mentioned are of so singular a nature that we ^ judge it necessary to premise that we shall set down nothing which we have not reason to believe incontrovertible .

    Towards the close of the summer of 1825 , in the interior of New York , and amongst the Presbyterians , the American Revivals had their origin . Sevieral ministers began to be uneasy about the state of religion in their congregations , and still more so at the progress which other sects were making amongst them , and in order to aiouse the slumberers and to regain their declining ascendancy , they formed a plan for getting up ( as the phrase is ) ati

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1829, page 555, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2575/page/35/