Socinianism Brought to the Test, Or, Jesus Christ Proved to Be Either the Adorable God, or a Notorious Imposter; In Twenty Letters to the Reverend Doctor Priestley (Paperback)

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. 1805. Excerpt: ... not There Are Three Gods: forbear this, it will be better for you. God is but One God. Far be it from him, that he should have a Son--Christ doth not proudly disdain to be a servant unto God." Again, yet more, if possible, to our purposes, " They are surely Insidels who fay, verily, Go o is Christ the Son of MAKY; since Chris r faid, O children of Israel Serve God, my Lord and your Lord. Whoever shall give a companion to God, God shall exclude him from paradise, and his habitation shall be hell sire. They are certainly insidels who lay, God is the third, of Three; for there is no God, beside one God. And if they refrain not from what they fay, a painful torment sliall surely be inflicted on such ot them as are unbetievers.--Christ, the Son of Mary, is uo more than an apostle; and his mother was a woman of veracity.--Behold how we declare them the signs of God's Unity; and then behold, how they turn aside from the truth? Say, will ye worship any besides God, &c." Now from this long quotation from the prophet Mohammed, would not any body take him for a rational Diflenter, educated by such a tutor as Dr. Taylor, or Dr. Priestley? Or, in other words, Would not one, who is well acquainted with the fundamenais of the Turkish religion, on reading your polemical pamphlets, be apt to mistake you lor a Mo. t Ch. v.p.146. hammedan? I mean, respecting those essential principles of religion, the Doctrines of the Trinity, and the Divinity Of Jesus. The worshipping of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, as three persons in the union of the divine essence, you fay, " is the grand corruption of Christianity, and, indeed, hath changed it into idolatry." The restoring of it therefore to its purity must be a great and good work, such as could not be effected by any other spirit, t...