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Rh Scriptures and to sound reason. The most that can be allowed to the professors of such a faith is, that the three Gods, whom they affect to acknowledge, may occasionally be unanimous. And yet it appears, that they have not always been so, since the one has required an atonement for sin on his part, which the two others did not think necessary on their's. But, not to dwell on the absurdities of a doctrine, which has completely overturned the church, and introduced a species of refined heathenism in the place of the true christian religion, it is sufficient to observe, that in the apostolic age no such faith was known, and that for hundreds of years christians were satisfied with acknowledging and worshipping Jesus Christ as the true God; the doctrine of a trinity of persons not having been invented for so long a time after the first publication of christianity.

This deplorable state of the christian church is clearly predicted by our Lord in the 24th chapter of Matthew's Gospel; and it's dangerous principles, now so universally prevalent, are called by him the abomination of desolation, spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place, or church. But at the same time a promise is made, that, on the consummation or end of this church, a new one shall be raised up, which will both in doctrine and in life acknowledge only One God, in One Divine Person, in whom nevertheless is a Divine Trinity, as already explained; the Father or Divine Essence being the soul, the Son or Divine Humanity being the body, and the Holy Spirit being the proceeding influence or operation, all belonging to one and the same God, who is no other than our ever-adorable Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

To confirm this doctrine in all it's fulness, would be to transcribe a great part of the Sacred Scriptures.