AND SCRIPTURAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF UNITARIANISM. WITH AN EXAMINATION OF THE ALLEGED BIBLICAL EVIDENCE FOR THE DOCTRINE OF A TRIUNE GOD, THE PROPER DEITY OF CHRIST, AND THE DIVINE PERSONALITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, INTERSPERSED WITH VARIOUS READINGS, DIFFERENT TRANSLATIONS, PARAPHRASES, & EXPOSITIONS TAKEN FROM THE WRITINGS OF THE MOST POPULAR AND LEARNED MEN, BELONGING BOTH TO THE UNITARIAN AND THE TRINITARIAN BODY. ALSO, AN INTRODUCTION, CONTAINING A STATEMENT OF THE OPINIONS HELD BY THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH WITH AN APPENDIX, CONSISTING OF THE CONCESSIONS OF TRINITARIAN WRITERS, SUMMARY OF EVIDENCE FOR UNITARIANISM, &c. &c. BY JOHN WILSON. Second Edition, WITH ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS. LONDON, PUBLISHED BY JOHN MARDON, 7, FARRINGDON STREET, AND BY THE AUTHOR, BELFAST. AND SCRIPTURAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF UNITARIANISM. WITH AN EXAMINATION OF THE ALLEGED BIBLICAL EVIDENCE FOR THE DOCTRINE OF A TRIUNE GOD, THE PROPER DEITY OF CHRIST, AND THE DIVINE PERSONALITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, INTERSPERSED WITH VARIOUS READINGS, DIFFERENT TRANSLATIONS, PARAPHRASES, & EXPOSITIONS TAKEN FROM THE WRITINGS OF THE MOST POPULAR AND LEARNED MEN, BELONGING BOTH TO THE UNITARIAN AND THE TRINITARIAN BODY. ALSO, AN INTRODUCTION, CONTAINING A STATEMENT OF THE OPINIONS HELD BY THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH WITH AN APPENDIX, CONSISTING OF THE CONCESSIONS OF TRINITARIAN WRITERS, SUMMARY OF EVIDENCE FOR UNITARIANISM, &c. &c. BY JOHN WILSON. Second Edition, WITH ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS. LONDON, PUBLISHED BY JOHN MARDON, 7, FARRINGDON STREET, AND BY THE AUTHOR, BELFAST. REV. BENJAMIN MARDON, M.A. PASTOR OF THE GENERAL BAPTIST CHURCH, WORSHIP STREET, LONDON, A LEARNED AND AN ABLE DEFENDER OF THE DOCTRINES OF UNITARIAN CHRISTIANITY; TO THE REV. J. SCOTT PORTER, ASSISTANT PASTOR OF THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CONGREGATION, BELFAST, A FEARLESS ASSERTOR OF THE RIGHTS OF THE HUMAN INTELLECT, AND A CLEAR AND FORCIBLE EXPOUNDER OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH; AND TO THE REV. FLETCHER BLAKELY, M.A. PASTOR OF MONEYREA, NEAR BELFAST, A GENTLEMAN WHO HAS LONG DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF BY HIS ZEALOUS AND ENLIGHTENED ADVOCACY OF PRIMITIVE RELIGION, AND WHO, WITH A SMALL BAND OF OTHER GENEROUS-MINDED MEN, remonstrated, in the Synod of Ulster, against the imposition of Human Tests; and, by separating from a Body to which they were ardently attached, preferred the Liberty of Serving THEIR MASTER CHRIST, to the Slavery of having their Intellects fettered down by Creeds and Confessions of Faith, which are opposed as much to the Religion of Jesus, as to the improved and still improving Spirit of the Nineteenth Century; THE FOLLOWING WORK, IN SUPPORT OF THE UNITARIANISM OF THE BIBLE, IS INSCRIBED, WITH THE GREATEST RESPECT FOR THEIR CHARACTERS AS CHRISTIAN MINISTERS, AND FOR THEIR SERVICES IN THE SACRED CAUSE OF MAN'S WELLBEING, And with the warmest acknowledgments for the friendship and kindness experienced, BY THE AUTHOR. |