An Apology for the Doctrine of the Trinity : being a chronological view of what is recorded concerning, the person of Christ, the Holy Spirit, and the blessed Trinity, whether in the sacred writings, or in Jewish, Heathen, and Christian authors .. . ineof the Sacred Three. Not to do so would be absoluterebellion against the highest obligations, and to involveourselves in deserved condemnation. If we err herein,we err in good company. If we are mistaken, we mis-take with the greatest and best of men. Friends andenemies have concurred in sentiment with us, that thescriptures do actually contain
An Apology for the Doctrine of the Trinity : being a chronological view of what is recorded concerning, the person of Christ, the Holy Spirit, and the blessed Trinity, whether in the sacred writings, or in Jewish, Heathen, and Christian authors .. . ineof the Sacred Three. Not to do so would be absoluterebellion against the highest obligations, and to involveourselves in deserved condemnation. If we err herein,we err in good company. If we are mistaken, we mis-take with the greatest and best of men. Friends andenemies have concurred in sentiment with us, that thescriptures do actually contain the doctrine. Jews, Hea-thens, Mahometans, all concur with the great body ofChristians from the beginning, that the doctrine of theTrinity is a doctrine of our New Testament. We areso far, therefore, from feeling shame at being thoughtto embrace this sentiment, that we glory in the prin-ciple before the assembled world of infidels and philo-sophers, and are persuaded it throws a divine lustre overthe records of our salvation, and makes them worthy ofGod to reveal, and of all acceptation by man. See the divinity of Chriit and the doctrine of the Holy Trinityvindicated from the objections of Socinians in the 44th Sermon ofarchbishop ?\ w rr Yr*. An Apology for the doctrine of the Trinity, PART FIRST. SECTION I. Information concerning the Messiah for the first three thousand yearsof the World. THE general observations intended being dispatch-ed, we will now proceed to investigate the seve-ral doctrines themselves. And that this may be donewith greater precision, let it first be considered, whatgenuine Christianity is.—Real Christianity, then, it willbe granted by every person, let his private views ofit be what they may, is that mode of worshipping andserving the Almigiity, which the gospel of Christ re-quires of us. Whoever serves God in this way, is trulyreligious. Whoever serves God in any other way, if helives under the dispensation of the gospel, is not trulyrel
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