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    respect to the great Being himself , whom they all adore , and who , I trust , equally accepts all that worship him in spirit and in truth , notwithstanding some diversity of opinion , respecting certain particulars which the wisdom , or rather the folly , of

    men has made the matters of subtile disputation . I forbear tp enlarge any further at present , but if what I have written should not be satisfactory , I should be glad to see this subject fully but candidly discussed . I remain . Sir , respectfully , your ' s , Moderator .

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    reviewer ' s reply to moderator * The Reviewer of Rabbi HirscheFs Thanksgiving Sermo ^ having been favoured by the editor of the Monthly Repository ^ with the perusal of the Strictures of ic Moderator , " begs leave to make a few remarks in reply to them j not , indeed , that Ja « considers them powerful in argument , or that he conceives it

    to be the duty of a reviewer to come forward to repel evsry attack that may be made upon his opinions , but that his con ? - cern for the character of the Repository will not allow him t <> suffer a charge of uncandidness to be , by his means , bro ^ gtrit against it , without an attempt , at least , of refutation .

    The controversy between * ' Moderator" and the Reviews ? may be easil y decided . !? Moderator asserts , that all Christian sects maintain in their creeds the Unity of God . True : th < £ Athanasian creed declares that there is but one God ! But do not all the principal Christian sects declare also doctrines which

    are subversive of the Divine Unity ? Do they not jdfeclare , that Jesus Christ is God , perfect God , and that the Holy Ghost i $ God , perfect God ; and that each of these is a distinct Efiyjtije Person , equal with God , the Father ? These doctrines are ip > - consistentj says Moderator 3 so they appear to the Reviewer ^ so they must appear to the conscientious Jew ^ and it is not the business of the one or the other of them to reconcile the incorir *

    sistency . The assertion of a Trinity in the Godhead destroy * that of a Unity ; there is , therefore , a natural contrariety be * - tween " the one only God of Moses , and the plural God 0 $ Christians , " and this is theground of the Reviewer ' s argument * 2 * It is granted to Moderator , that all Christian cormpuniona

    profess to worship one God ; but do they , in reality , worship a God who is one ? Worship is paid by them to three distinct Persons ( and let Moderator shew how three distinct persons are not three distinct beings ) , who bear distinct and separate $ ha * racters : one of them is God the Father , the Creator : the se *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1806, page 289, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1725/page/9/