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    controversy , which kindled such deplorable divisions in the Christian world , was the doctrine of tii % e&mr $ QmmJhe Gfadhmd ; a ^ pctrine which , in the three preceding centuries , had happily escapal the vain fcunosity of human r ^^ a ^ e * ee , atnd teen kft upde % e ^ r an 4 ilnd ^ te ^ inined by $$$ p ^ kiular ? fet ~**> 3 rber EinpteroF ^ € lonstantinei looking upon the subject of this controversy ; as ? l&inattm&fimiaM importance , and as little connected with the fuw $ -. mkffid and essential doctrines ofreligion , contented himself at first . wijfc

    addressiri g a : letter to the contending parties , in which he admonished them td put an end to their disputes * But when the prince saw that his , admonitions were without effect , and that the troubles and commotions which ; th ^ passions of men too often mingle with religious disputes were spreading and increasing daily throughout the empire , he assembled at length , in the year 325 , the , famous council of Nice in Bithynia , wherein the deputies of tihe church universal were summoned to put an end to the , controversy . . .

    ** And in the year 381 , a hundred and fifty bishops , at the co , uncji . of Constantinople , gave the finishing touch to what the council of Nice had left ' imperfect , and fixed in a full and determinate manner the doctrine of tfcree persons in one God , which is as yet received among the . generality of Cfifis- ? tians . " ; ' . ., : :.. ^ - » .,,.. ; -. From this time , the Trinity obtained a strong place ampng ^ ^ ( Qc | ri ^ es of orthodoxy , and though Calvin expressed his . disapprobatip ^ pf p ^ pr-d as barbarous and savouring of heathenism , and Melancthpn bewaijei tbe (

    bloody tragedies that it would cause to be enacted , the Reformation did ^ oi destroy its roots , and it is still a prevalent and essential doctrine in all the f great churches of Christendom . The , doctrine of T jr ansubstantiation flourished with equal vigour ihrpugl } many an age of religipus cjarkaess , and though it would be too n ^ uqh to say , that it has gonejto the tomb c £ ppce powerful errors , its springs of > life | are , touched ^ and it cannot lo 0 g survive . In this , also , it is my beliefj"f p ^ t . ' s tfce ;• >

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    816 Doctrines of the Trinity and of , Transubstantiation .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1828, page 816, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2567/page/16/