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The state of the public mind in France ,. generally , in reference to religion . , is by no means destitute of points of interest . ¦ - Trinitariahism at least , in any of what are thought its genuine forms , is all but extinct . It is passing away with the anomalies and oppression of the barbarous relics of the feudal age . Nor will it , as we believe , return . Communities hm e _ jQQi , _ asJadi . vidnals t .--tneir
end—childhood . Error to be revived must at least assume anew form , and it scarcely admits of a question , that the Trinity has in the lapse of sixteen centuries assumed all ( he shapes , of which , with all its Proteus power , it is susceptible . And while old things are passed away , indications are not wanting , that all things are becoming new . Positive and definite forms of belief are too
powerful a want of the human soul to permit a whole people to remain long in the chilling atmosphere of scepticism , and there appears to be in France an activity of mind , a craving after truth , a tendency to what is stable and clear , which betoken the commencement of a religious regeneration , a renewal of spiritual life in forms not less efficient tfraf ! Interesting and attractive .
LetusturntoGernaany . There we meet with Antitrinitarianisin in anew dress . You have heard much bewailment and declamation , on what has been termed the infidelity of this interesting land . Had Antitrinitarianism been substituted for infidelity , the designation would hav& been- more correct and piteous . Among the learned there have been , and are indeed , though the number is not increasing , persons who would , to those who know no other form of the gospel than what they themselves embrace , appear to have renounced all belief in the divine mission
of Christ . Of the principles and modes of interpretation adopted by this school , we are not enamoured , but , as Christian men , ashamed . Still no few of them may be found to possess more of the genuine spirit of the gospel than some of those who are readiest to prescribe them . How far soever they have gone in the wrong path , certain it is they have left the old and rugged road of Trihitarianismv—With various sn a large portion of the learned and educated portion of the German nation are Antitrinitarian , both those we mean who have , and those
who have not—the larger nurnber- —indulged in a latitudinarian mode of interpretation , which seemed to take from the gospel its special claims to a divine revelation . Scarcel y can a person of the more educated classes be found , who believes in the Trinity in the Athanasian sense , though thereis arptatt ^ iiTmystleisccnfi ' The '' language of some of the ypunger men on the subject which might to an The
pass for Trinit ^ rianisni unpractised ear . tone of preaching in the German pulpit is generally not doctrinal , but practical The attributes of God , considered , though not expressly or polemically declared to be one person and one mind , the moral excellencies of our Jbord ' s character , the dignity and worth of the gospel motives ; these and other kindred topics which are fitted to work
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THE TRUTH TELLER . 337
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Vol . II . Z
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1833, page 337, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2625/page/17/
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