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    S 4 A Memoir of Samuel Crellius .

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    doctrine , and so seems to have seduced Ftancis But on the other hand the orthodox frequently , and the Jews sometimes , go directly over lothe Turkish camp and have no need to lodge first in that of Socinus . Whereas it is not clear , as I know , from any one instance ^ that any adhere ;; t to Socinus in the doctrine of the invocation of Christ , ever joined

    the Mahometans , not even when they Ttfere driven out of Poland by the Turks , in the years 1658 and l (> 60 . Besides , how can they easily revolt to the Mahometans , who , as it appears from their books of devotion , and discourses published at different times , both publicly and privately , pray to the Lord Jesus jhat he would

    speedily destroy the abominable doctrine of the impure Mahomet . I doubt whether to send my son to Hall , for unless he can be admitted to the commons of the students , my scanty finances , considering my large family , will not be equal to his support there . But so many sons of families in succession to one another are gaping for that bread , that there is scarcely any hope that the whelps will be permitted to eat it . "

    In another letter to La Croze he writes , 1 have in reality no new thoughts on that subject . I have corrected the doctrine of Socinus on the person and character of Christ , from Unitarian ecclesiastical antiquity ; and , if I am not deceived , have rendered it at once more sublime and more agreeable to the orthodox ; and have endeavoured to bring buck Christian theology to that state

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    , ; in " which it appears J to me to I have been when ustin Martyr introduced his innovations . » wish that our divines , wearied , out with so many abstruse coni ceptions and disquisitions on the ; doctrine of the Trinity , would return to the same point . Let the modes of expression invented by roen be discarded . ' Let us dis - miss the terms liyposUiiis , ( in the metaphysical ¦ sense , ) three persons , generation , eternal procession , communication of attri

    butes , personal union , &c . Let us not , in the next place , urge and obtrude points which we ourselves do not understand , and do not appear to be laid down in the Scriptures , and there will remain to us a theology level to the capacity of the unlearned rustic ; namel y , God the Father , and the man Christ Jesus , intimately and inseparably united to God the Father , and the Holy Spirit proceeding from the Father and the Son , that is , immediately receiving from them instructions and commands ; whom the Father and Son send .

    cc , I say , such terms as the Holy Spirit has not used ^ be discarded , and let us not obtrude our dpctrines on others , and there will be Christian charity , like a grain of mustard seed . How easy then will be ecclesiastical toleration , and an union of Athanasius with Socinus , reformed and corrected by my ideas . But let the Platonic logos , and the Arian pre-existent spirit , created before , the world , and united with the Son of Man , without a human soul , by a divine destiny ^ and contrary to the course of nature ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1810, page 54, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2401/page/6/