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The Anitarians of Gugland,

AND TO ANY OTHERS WHO CONFESS OR CONCEAL DOUBTS

REGARDING THE MYSTERIES OF THE FAITH,

THIS TREATISE,

ACCOMPANIED WITH MANY PRAYERS,

IS, IN ALL HUMILITY, ADDRESSED BY

THE AUTHOR.

CHAPTER I.—Introduction. Preparation of heart. Our

position before God.....

CHAPTER II.—That Scripture, in the Old and the New

Testament alike, detaches our ultimate confidence

from man the creature, and attaches it to God the

Creator;-

by contrasting the sinfulness and feebleness of

mortal man with the goodness and omnipo-

tence of the Eternal Jehovah :

by direct prohibition and precept:

by exhibiting the holy Jealousy of God.....

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CHAPTER III. — That Scripture, in the Old and the New

Testament alike, requires us to repose our ultimate

confidence in the Lord Jesus Christ:

as One who is distinct from the Father:

as One to whom all the attributes of essential

Deity are ascribed:

as One whose infinite perfections claim supreme

trust, adoration, and love.....

CHAPTER IV.-

- That Scripture, in the Old and the New

Testament alike, proves the coequal Deity of Jesus

Christ with that of the eternal Father;·

by a comparison of the attributes, the majesty,

and the claims of the Father and the Son :

by the appearances of God to the Old Testament

saints:

by the direct and Divine worship paid to Christ:

by the conjunction of the Father and the Son

in Divine offices:

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by explicit assertions that Christ is Jehovah

and God.

CHAPTER V.—That Scripture, in the Old and the

New Testament alike, presents to us the incarnation

and the mission of the Saviour, as the extremity of

condescension in Jehovah, that thereby He might

exalt us to everlasting life.

The Scriptural order to be observed in this

inquiry.

The moral and spiritual majesty of the incar-

nation of Christ.

The examination of those passages which as-

sert his humanity by the light of others which

assert his Divinity.

The derived glory to which He raises believers

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compared with his own essential glories...... 117-145

CHAPTER VI. -— That Scripture, in the Old and the New

Testament alike, proves the coequal Godhead of the

Holy Spirit with that of the Father and of the Son:

as One who is to be distinguished from the

Father and the Son:

as one to whom such personal properties and

actions are assigned as prove independent

and intelligent personality:

as One to whom Divine attributes are ascribed

and by whom Divine offices are exercised :

as One worshipped in parity with the Father

and the Son :

as One declared to be Jehovah and God..... 146-172

CHAPTER VII.—That Scripture, in the Old and the

New Testament alike, assures us that in the trust-

ful knowledge of one God, the Father, the Son,

and the Holy Ghost, is the spiritual life of man now

and for ever.

On the mysteries of faith.

On the revealed evidences of faith.

On creeds or definitions of faith.

On the obedience of faith.

On the full satisfaction of faith..

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INTRODUCTION.

OFFERED to mankind as a benignant revelation of practical truth, the doctrine of the Trinity ought always to be handled and presented in a spirit of Christian tenderness. None of the great Evangelical "principles" is more unfit to be made a matter of partisan controversy. Undoubtedly it is too much to expect that the sectarian temper should wholly refrain from tampering with it. Such is the fatal force of prejudice, such the energy of human passions, and such the propensity to bring down the highest and holiest things into the market-places of pride and ambition, that violent and even profane hands will sometimes be laid on the very ark of the divine mysteries, filled with the promises and gifts of God to his children. Painful examples of this irreverence are too fresh and too frequent. They result partly from the general impatience and selfishness of our nature; partly from a disposition in unspiritual minds,