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    shalTecj ? Many think with us . They look on the Trinity as a weakness , yet a little to be tolerated , as is every weakness of those to whom they owe their birth . They would renounce it in words as they have renounced it in fact , but that they fear to wound prejudices they are bound to " consider . Now who can doubt what the result will , be , when , to a . great extent , the intellect and the youth of the age are Antitrinitarian ? As the child is the father of the man , so is one age of another , and the convictions of the few in one generation become the heritage of the multitude in the next .

    An extreme has been gone into—from Trinitarian ism men have run into unbelief . This we deplore . But unbelief is a temporary , not a permanent state of mind . It is an extreme to which on escaping from . absurdity men are driven before they settl ^ down in the happy midway of truth . We expect , therefore , to witness a return to the spirit of a sound mind . The pendulum has vibrated from one limit of its arch to the other , it is now subsiding into that permanent state of repose which is equal ! v removed from both .

    Great religious changes have often been preceded by a renunciation of creeds . Such a renunciation , implied _ or expressed , we may see on all sides ' . In ^ Germany , the symbols of the churches record not their actual , but their past belief ; "In'the Church of England , the articles are little more than authorized passports to emolument and distinction , while , with the Dissenters , they are in some cases parted with , iri others kept but of sight . The creeds of the dark ages are all but gone . We hear of them by the hearing of the ear—occasionally the eye catches a sight of them—but now they serve , as far as known , chiefly as monuments of things that have been . The-creeds are all but

    gone , soon will the dogmas disappear , of which they were once the chosen representatives and defenders . Why are they gone , but because the age has outgrown them ; because even their friends had grown ashamed of them ; because the contrast was too glaring which they presented between the substantial profusion and the shadowy reality ; between the declaration and the sentiment ? They are gone , and soon will their venerable relics be gone too ; such , at least , as far as the avowal of renunciations is concerned , is the order of nature— -first , the formulary . ; then the faith . Such , in brief , is the history of the change in the

    Presbyterian Churches of this kingdom , and such of the change which , in the dawning of the Reformation , took place in Poland . We add ,, that names linger long after " what they once stood for has disappeared . In speaking of the movements of the heavens , we still use the ignorant jargon of theological astronomy . We cannot discourse of the changes which pass in the mind , but we use terms that are derived from systems and imply notions now for centuries exploded . So now—and it will do yet a season—

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    THE TRUTH TELLER ; , 359

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1833, page 359, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2627/page/7/