An Appeal in Behalf of the Views of the Eternal World and State, and the Doctrines of Faith and Life; Held by the Body of Christians Who Believe That (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1845. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... SECTION VII. THE TRINITY, AS CENTERED IN THE PERSON OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. Part IV. The True Doctrine lonfirmed from the Texts most relied on for the Proof of the contrary. We have seen in the preceding Parts of this Section, that the affirmative of the Grand New Church tenet, of the Sole Divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ, his Oneness with the Father, and the concentration of the whole of the Divine Trinity in his Single Person is easily proved; that an acquaintance with the truths relating to his assumption and glorification of the Humanity, takes away the ground of all the objections that can be raised against it, and proves its certainty by another process; and that these proofs, impregnable in themselves, still receive a great access of confirmation, when it is seen, that the only proper alternative of this genuine doctrine, is that of Tritheism, and that its opponents cannot resist it without betraying, that, when contending for three distinct Divine Persons, they mean, in the thoughts of their hearts three distinct Gods. Nevertheless, there unquestionably are passages, which to those who read them without understanding, may seem to favor that doctrine; it may tend, therefore, more fully to satisfy the minds of some, to pass the chief of such texts under review, to apply to them the principles for solving objections developed in Part II., and to show, as is the truth, that they in reality teach, not the separation as to Person between Jesus and the Father, but their unton. As then the writer whom I chiefly follow, after making the objections considered in the preceding Part of this Section to some of the texts which prove the true Doctrine, has selected those which he regards as the strongest for supporting his erroneous views, I will, in the present Par...