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56 "That God has developed himself in these three different ways, is what they [Sabellius and Schleiermacher,] believe to be taught in the Scriptures, and to be commended to our spiritual consciousness by the nature of our wants, woes, and sins." No. 19, p. 81.

"Dr. Schleiermacher asks, with deep emotion, what more is demanded? what more is necessary? what more can further the interest of practical piety?" p. 82.

"I can see no contradiction, no absurdity, nothing even incongruous in the supposition, that the Divine Nature has manifested itself as Father, &c" p. 88.

"Why should it ever have any more been overlooked that the names Father, &c. are names that have a relative sense .... than that such names as Creator, &c." p. 110.

"It may be proper for me to say, that the results of this re-examination of the doctrine of the Trinity are, in their essential parts, the same which I some years since advocated in my letters addressed to the Rev. Dr. Channing, &c." p. 115.

These extracts are perhaps sufficient to justify the apprehensions above expressed, as far as the more religious part of Protestant Germany is concerned. It is believed that Protestant France could be made to afford similar evidence of the Sabellian tendencies of the day.