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Baillie cited it , cannot be overbalanced by that of Christ , for they are both in the same scale .
Fallacious Reference . * Against the objection of the Jews , that believers in the Trinity worship more Gods than one , Grotius , in every respect a competent and candid judge , has defended the Christian Church in the Fifth Book of his Treatise on the Truth of the Christian Religion , Sect . 21 . He calls their objection an invidious and perverse charge ; and illustrates our Church doctrine from their own writers in regard Co the Trinity of the Godhead , the Divinity and , Incarnation of Christ , and the personality of the Holy Spirit . "—P . 31 .
It certainly startled us to hear that Grotius had illustrated our Church doctrine , and so we turned to the place . The argument of Grotius is that of a Sabellian , who no more believes in three divine persons , properly so called , than a Jew . In fact he declares that the same allegation might just as well be made against Philo , " qui saepe tria in Deo statuit , " and who therefore
may also and equally be claimed by Dr . Burgess as having held " our church doctrine . " If the doctrine of the Trinity , as stated in the Articles and the Athanasian creed , really mean no more than the Rabbinical speculations , cited by Grotius , concerning Divine Wisdom , the Shechinah , &c , then are we , and even the Jews too , orthodox believers , and Dr . Burgess may be trusted for a correct reference .
Hasty Assumption . We are informed that a knowledge of Greek is one of the aids , " the -want of which is , I am persuaded , one of the chief sources of dissent from Ihe primitive , or as you call it , the * High Church Doctrine , ' professed by the Church of England . " ( Pp . 3 , 4 . )
Want of Greek ! Locke , Newton , Haynes , Clarke , Pierce , Hallett , Lardner , Wakefield , Newcome , J . Taylor , Jones , Parr ; here is Greek enough surely , without going further , or looking abroad . Here is Greek enough ; but where is its Siamese brother that should be , the Trinitarianism ? Of all assumptions , there can scarcely be one more rash than that want of Greek is an element of the Unitarian faith .
The fact is that there are a few points , and but a few , in the controversy , which require to be referred from the Chancery of Common Sense to a Special Jury of Greek Scholars . They have been referred , and the verdict given : not always unanimously , indeed ; but so rich a scholar as the Bishop sometimes settles a question b y a balance of critical authorities ; the unlearned tieed do no more .
Self-contradiction . At p . 5 of the " Remarks' * a demonstration of the Deity of Christ is grounded on the absende of the Greek article ; in p . 54 , in a citation from Bishop Pearson , adopted as most conclusive , arguing from the omission of
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756 Bishop of Salisbury ' s Reply to Mrs . Joanna Baillie .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1831, page 756, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2603/page/32/
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