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    ]!) ttiif&li Mhsiotiari ^ S arid the MalabaTian Brain ans , or Heathen Priests rn tbe East Indies , cc > ncerniHg the trach oif th 6 Christian

    Hettg fo ii $ together withsbme letters written by the Heathdris to the said Missionaries . Translated

    out of High Dutch , by Mr . Phil . % * p ¦* ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ? ¦ ¦ . . J w lips . ' The Banish Missionaries resided chiefly at Tranquebar . A book , containing an account of their transactions , was quoted more than once in your last volume . In these Conferences there

    are questions proposed by followers of Mahomet and of Brama , Dot a little puzzling to Trinitarian Missionaries , who resort to various solutions ; two may suffice : the first proposed to a Mahometan Priest . ** You Christians , quoth

    he , believe in Three Gods , and we believe in One God only . I answered , Sir , far be it from us to believe a Trinity of Gods , for I'll make it plajn to you by a familiar comparison , that we believe in but one God only . For as we see but one sun in the

    firmament , which has light and heat represented to our minds under ideas quite different from that of the sol ^ r . body , or globe of the sun itself J and yet heat , light , and the sol ^ r bo (| y , are so united

    togethcr that they make but one sun and not three suns . So , by way of accommodation tjiis ni a /^ be applied to the Holy Trinity , fdr we say that in one divine ^ essence there are three persons / ' , P . , 23 « be

    The second splutipn sha ^ l on , e offered to a ** learned fyla ) a $ > ariaji physiciarij >* The Missionary had riientidnfeS G od as revealing hinnjstfff 4 * bf his son ! 3 e 3 us Christ . Whcf Ik % T ' < & $ &' lie . ; And is he k \* 6 GoWi t ' ateWer ^ He

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    is God blessed cf fo ^ evp r . ¥ ***> pray , 'Sjr , recollect yours , e ) f ,: said he , have not . you been iusl . np ^ v inveighing against a plumfetV . Jp f Gods ? And now I find you f ^ ftye yourselves more than ortd , ^ C £ e Father is GoH , and the Son is

    God i then you have two Gods , I answered , we do not believe two Gods ^ but one pnly God , And God , who knows hiK ^ self , has enjoined us to believe a Trinity of

    persons in onp divine essence , which swe call Father , Son , and Holy Ghost . ' if God has a son , said he , then youi * God , as well as some of purs , must have a wife . God is a spirit , said I . —

    He begat his son from eternity , by generation not to be paralleled in time ; and from Father arid Son proceeds the Holy Spirit , the third Person in the blessed Tri

    nity , which , though to us mortals incomprehensible , yet the possibility thereof may be shadowed forth by an easy comparison * Oat of the immaterial Soul

    of Man proceeds and is born the Understanding ; and from the essence of the Soul and the Understanding emanes or proceeds the Will I and yet the soul ( as to ij : s essence ) the understanding , arjd th $ will , are really bat one and the

    same thing . I find , said he , that you , with subtle ways of arguing , can make a Tr inity consistent with Unity \ and if your explication is absolutely necessary t ; o make others understand what you mean , pray allow us . the same , a *} - ¦ '

    r * ¦ AT -m » » * * . vantage , of explaining the doctrine of our religion , and puttipg if jn the . fayourabje ^ t light w # can ifyr the ' excluding , of tfre absurdities in > pyted to u& ? } Af ? d this -Ofl ^ e granted : i ^ , ' 'twill , follow , tba ^ flftr plurality d 6 es not destroy the

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1812, page 241, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1747/page/33/