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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865. Excerpt: ... following pages. Nor is it necessary, I trust, for me to apologise for making such an attempt, as your avowed aim is to "resist the propagation" of Unitarian doctrines in a neighbourhood where the free and unanimous voice of a Christian society has stationed me for their promotion. My remarks will he restricted to such of your arguments as are designed to prove the proper Deity of Jesus Christ. He may possess a superhuman nature, he may have existed ages before he was born of Mary, and yet not be God. The negation of his preexistence is not essential to Unitarianism, and the subject is comparatively unimportant. I have no doubt as to what the scriptures teach concerning it, nor any desire to shrink from its discussion; but the state of my health, which allows of but little exertion, bodily or mental, and the limits of this letter,--for I propose to write a tract, and not a volume,--induce me to waive, at least on the present occasion, any notice of your ;reasonibg.&:iiv:its Ifavour. They prove nothing as to the 'in'ain "point "wnicn jou undertook to establish, viz. that: JeslteGimst is the'Eternal and Infinite God. '""' A.Hd here/ b"y "the way, is one reason why the term Humanitarian, by which you wish to designate us, "is hardly come into general use," and hardly will. It refers to a subordinate article of our faith, or I should rather say the faith of a part of us; for many avowed Unitarians are believers in the preexistence of Christ. It is, besides, open to the very objection which you urge against the term Unitarian. The Athanasian Creed teaches that Christ was "very man;" and Trinitarians profess to maintain the doctrine of his humanity "as strenuously as the Unitarians themselves." If the worshipers of Three Divine Persons be, as you affirm, Unitar...
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