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THE TRUTH TELLER.
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Essays , illustrations of scripture , popular scriptural criticism , efforts of imagination , in all their religious variety , will meet with candid consideration , and a hearty welcome to the pages of the Unitarian Chronicle , if they be found suited to the Editor ' s , purpose . He will also be gladlof real signatures to papers where it is agreeable to the writers . His own name will be affixed to the
work for the fuHr ^ 7 ~ TTe as not found"luTlInT 0 rc ^ Fd ~ "c onceal - ment a pleasant or profitable situation . He doubts not to find it more agreeable and useful to stand in the open light , than to be discovered by his own movements , or by the prying lamp of busy curiosrtyr His hopes from the publication of his name are to convince his readers of his sincerity and honesty , and to repel some petty annoyances to which his incognito has subjected him .
In bidding them farewell , till the new year , the Editor commends his readers to the grace of God , through Jesus Christ our Lord : that it may bless and keep them , and give them the fulness of rejoicing in . the season of rejoicing , and . that it may enable them to rejoice evermore .
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Speaking the truth in love . —^ Pauk The boast of numbers , belong to whom it may , the Trinitarian cannot properly make . A show of extensive ' prevalence , we grant , he has ; that to a great extent it is but show , has appeared from what we have already advanced . Observe further ; if the term Trinity be a mere sound , and stand for no definite reality ,
professors of it , \ we grant , are multitudinous ; but , if from the name we proceed to the . reality , from the representation to the thing represented , we shall have some difficulty to find many persons in strict agreement . First , we have the Eastern church , consisting of about . one-third of Christendom , and condemning the Western for heresy , and being in turn condemned for the same cause . The Trinity of the East , is , according to our Western standards ,
imperfect , inasmuch as it does not recognise the derivation of the Spirit from the Son as well as from the Father ; and the Trinity of the West the Easterns deem more than perfect , for adding that which they omit . Leaving the minor heresies which prevail extensively in the East on the subject of the Trinity , let us advert to the
world around us , and estimate the extent of agreement which prevails on this troubled and troubling subject . On each of the following points diversities prevail ' :- —the nature of the three Divine Persons constitutes three sources of diversity ; the relation of the three to each other , constitutes , at least , six rnore ; while the mode of the Son ' s generation , the mode of his union with humanity ,
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354 THE ¦ TBUTH TELLER .
The Truth Teller.
THE TRUTH TELLER .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1833, page 354, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2627/page/2/
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