On this page

• Text (1)

  Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

  • 

    Untitled Article

• Transcript

  • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

    Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

    Untitled Article

    embraces & great variety of subjects , it is somewhat surprizing that it does not contain so much as one Psalm or Hymn ex press ] 37 on the subject of The One God / ! but tlicr-e are several on the

    subject of the Trinity ; yea the doctor tells us that lie could not 46 persuade himself to put a full period to his Iryjnns" without

    addressing songs of praise , in various metres , to God , the Father , Son , and Holy Spirit . His conscience , it seems , would have stuns him had he been guilty of such an omission ; but how his conscience permitted him so much to neglect the important doctrine of the

    divine Unity , I am at a loss to conceive . Certain it is , however , that on that subject he is so very sparing , that I have not been able to find such words as " Holy One" or 4 C Loftv One" more than twice in all the book ; but

    such expressions as the u Sacred " or " Blessed Three" met my eye in almost every page ! Ah ! thought I , how different is this from the Bible , where the words 44 Holy One" occur in scores of places , but the terms cc Sacred Three , " not once , from Genesis to the Revelation !

    2 . It has often struck me that Trinitarians arc in the habit of over-ateppi / tg their own belief ; i . e * of using words which express much ^ more than they in reality do believe . It we ask any of them iii their cool dispassionate moments , Do they believe that the

    Godhead actually sutiered and « fied ? they would answer—No ; and yet nothing is more common than to hear them speak of a *«// - firing , a crucified , or a dying God . Such expressions abound in Dr . Watts ' s liymu Hook ; if ,

    Untitled Article

    then , it fs their belief that the sufferings and death of Christ were merely hum an ± we may fairly a * k , Why do you use words which convey a contrary meaning ? I have also observed , that they are much in the habit of

    violating most , if not all , of the higlu sounding pretensions which they are so fond of making . One of these pretensions is , " that as the two natares in Christ are quite distinct , great care should betaken not to confound them in our

    meditations or discourses : but do they themselves observe the rule ? no : for nothing is more common than to see many of

    them put man for God and God for man ; thus , in Dr . Watts ' s Hymns , the divine nature takes the place of the human , and suckles a

    virgin" This fnfant is the Mighty God , Come to be sucki'd and ador'd ; ( P- 238 , } And , on the other hand , the human nature occupies the placed the divine and-receives adoration

    " This js the many the exalted man t Whom we unseen adore . " ( P . 375 ) Another of their pretensions is < c to be very scrupulous in maintaining a strict equality between the Father and the Son ; " but is

    it not well known , that their general practice quite destroys this supposed equality ? Do they not uniformly raise the ^ on much higher than the Father in point of complacency , pity or goodness ? What then becomes of the

    equality ? The truth is , it is lost : tor , from the generality of Trinitarian prayers and sermons , it would appear , as if the Son was every thing and the Father nothing . 3 . How obscure and uuintcl-

    Untitled Article

    600 Dr . Watts ' 3 Trinitarian Paradoxes .

• Citation
  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1808, page 600, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2398/page/24/