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Ghost , Some such subordination as this is what is generally held by those , the mass of the people , who still adhere to the profession of antiquated creeds . The modal Trinity is too refined and metaphysical to meet with a reception in their undisciplined minds , and therefore they hold , as did . the first believers in the Trinity , one supreme and two inferior Gods , if indeed they think the
Holy-Ghost a God at all . . At all events , influenced partly "by the general teaching of the bible , and partly by the practice of their teachers , who , in spite of system , give , in their instructions and prayers , a prominence and superiority to the Father—influenced by these things , and also by the impossibility they feel of making two one and one two , the people generally ascribe supremacy to the Father , and thus divest the Son of equality with him . Is this anything else b # t : disguise ^ pniiarianism ? It is the thing though not
the name . Every one we term a Unitarian , who holds that the Creator of the Universe Js aj ^ pye . and over all , and this is held under a Tnnitarian garb by rio small part of the flock of Christ . Those indeed who have studied systems of divinity , who are learned in creeds and distinctions , and gifted with the love and the ability of disputation , may have so mystified their minds as to symbolize with Athanasjus or any other corrupter of the Church
of Christ . - But such persons are few in number , especially in the present day , while the mass have" either too much sense or too little mysticism to = al ] ow the creed t 6 get the entire mastery of the Bible . Cling as they may to forms of words , terrified as many are by the holy horror which the priest has raised at the very name of Unitarian , a large portion of ordinary Christians , nevertheless , to an extent which the observant only can measure , hold the Creator ' s supremacy and the Saviour's subordination . Here then
are our multiplied evidences of the decline of Trinitarian ism . They are to be seen in the hundreds of congregations and thousands of souls who worship apart because they believe in respect to the person of the Deity differentl y from their fellow Christians . They are to be seen in the extensive falling away from the-Christian communion , which has taken place in every ^ civilized land . They are- to be seen in the entire renunciation of those gross errors which some choose to term the peculiarities of the gospel , and in the consequent quiet and unobvious return to the great
practical principles ot Christianity , a change which , like most other natural transitions , has been as wide-spreading as noiseless . They are seen in the softenings down , in some cases the entire " removal , of the most revolting features of orthodoxy , in the attempt to give novelties in doctrine currency , by the adoption of recognised phraseology ; and to bolster up a falling system by the unsubstantial supports of sounds which are no longer significant of things . And especially are they to be seen in the teachings which the New Testament , combined with the strong common sense of the people , notwithstanding the efforts of the pulpit to indoctrinate
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THE TRUTH TELLER . 357
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1833, page 357, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2627/page/5/
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