"Almost every thing in the system of nature, notwithstanding the great improvements in modern philosophy, is attended with difficulties. If you look up to the heavens, you stand astonished at their greatness, and feel yourself incapable of comprehending that immensity which lies beyond those vast spaces which surround us. If you cast your eyes on the earth, you meet with as many mysteries as there are animals, plants, and creatures inanimate. You meet with innumerable difficulties in explaining the sensation of the one, the vegetation of another, and the motion of a third. If you consider material nature in its wide extremes, of immense greatness and invisible minuteness, you are struck with amaze. ment, and imagination is nonplussed. If, to the consideration of bodies, you take in that of their duration, time will shew you incomprehensible wonder, both in the succession of ages past, and in that which is future. If you turn your thoughts to spiritual essences, every thing surpasses your comprehension. You cannot comprehend, either their manner of existing, or their manner of acting. Even the human soul is so great a paradox to itself, that it long since despaired, not only of comprehending, but of knowing itself.

"And if so, is there any reason to assert, as our adversaries do, that there are no mysteries in religion? Or have they sufficient ground to refuse their assent to our Lord's eternal Divinity, so clearly revealed in the Bible, because it is attended with such difficulties as are insuperable to the powers of reason? Is it any wonder if the difficulties with which we meet in the christian religion, and especially those that regard the Deity of Christ, and the doctrine of the Trinity, should be found greater, much greater than those which attend a philosophical inquiry into the system of nature? It would indeed be a wonder if it were not so; because the constitution and capacities of our minds bear some proportion to natural objects, which are created and finite, and are much better qualified to inquire into their causes and properties, their connexions and uses, than into those of religion, which are of a spiritual kind, and particularly what relates to the infinite Godhead." [Dr. Abbadie on the Deity of Christ.]

Observe, This writer asks, "Is there any reason to assert, as our adversaries do, that there are no mysteries in religion?" Liberal Christians have never denied evangelical religion, or the mystery of "the love of God shed abroad in the heart, by the Holy Ghost,which is given unto us." This work of God in the soul, sanctifying and purifying the heart, enabling us to overcome our evil propensities, is a sublime mystery, and we acknowledge it. The doctrine of the resurrection, and a future state, are also great mysteries. The mediation of Christ, in heaven, is a mystery to us but we do not doubt these holy truths, because they are mysteries- we believe them as much as any Christians. But when told that Jesus was Mangod, a mediator between himself and us-a sucking infant, and at the same time Almighty God-when nursed by Mary, was at the same time in heaven-which every orthodox, of regular standing, does believe, and teaches to this day, throughout the United States-when, I say, we are taught to believe in such abominable blasphemy, we deny its truth-and for, this

cause, AND NO OTHER, the orthodox in America, have done every thing that mortal man in this country can do, to destroy Unitarians. In other countries men have been put to death,* for not believing in this monstrous doctrine-and the orthodox would now do the same if THEY had the POWER. They already call Unitarians, INFIDELS! and EXCLUDE them from Christian fellowship and represent them as denying the bible, and ALL the ESSENTIAL doctrines of the gospeland what more can they do? And all this unhallowed persecution is raised against us, because we do not believe that the infant child, Jesus, was Almighty God.-This is THE TRUTH, and I challenge all the Trinitarians in America to refute it. That I have not made a false statement, in the above paragraph, relative to the doctrine called the trinity, (which Unitarians do not believe,) will appear evident, by the following extracts, They are laid down with all solemnity in Doolittle's body of divinity. There is a passage to much the same effect in one of South's sermons.

"I. That the same person should be the Creator, and yet a creature. Is not this wonderful?

II. That the Father of Eternity should be born in time. Is not this wonderful.?

"III. That the Mighty God should be a weak babe. Is not this wonderful?

IV. That the virgin's womb should centain Him, whom the heaven of heavens cannot contain. Is not this wonderful?

"V. That he that had both father and mother, should have neither father nor mother. Is not this another thing in him very wonderful?

"VI. That his Father should be greater than he, and yet he be his Father's equal.t Is not this also wonderful?

VII. That he was before Abraham was born, and yet Abraham was born before him, about the space of two thousand years. Shall not this be accounted wonderful?

"VIII. That he was David's son, and yet David's Lord. Was, not this such a wonder, that the great rabbies among the Pharisees could not understand it?

IX. That the wisdom and word was an infant, that could not speak a words. Who with words can declare how great this wonder was?" "X, Who can reckon up the wonders in him? He was omnipotent, and yet weak; infinite, and yet finite; invisible, and yet was seen! immortal, and yet did die; he was a most spirital being, and yet had flesh, and blood, and bones. That he was GOD, what more glorious That he was flesh, what more inglorious? That he was GOD, in flesh, what more marvellous.?"

Is it possible for the, ingenuity of man to invent a.more complete system of contradiction and absurdity, than this. grand CONJUMBLEMENT, which the orthodox claim as an es

*See chapter on Martyrs. ↑ What perfect confusion. If Christ WAS GOD, what is meant by equality? Equal to nonsense.

sential doctrine of salvation? Yet, strange as it is, there is not a Methodist, Presbyterian, Calvinist Baptist, or Orthodox, who have joined the church, but what have solemnly declared that they BELIEVED all this fictitious doctrine, and solemnly PROMISED to defend it, with other dogmas still more strange and unscriptural, and mentioned in the following pages. [See chapter on creeds.

Let us hear more witnesses.

"This threefold distinction in the Godhead is mentioned by Paul, 2 Cor, xiii. 14. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all, Amen.' This is evidently a prayer of the apostle addressed to the sacred Three, that all spiritual blessings might be granted to his Christian friends at Corinth he could bless them in no other sense than by praying for

them.

To what has been said, I shall only add, 1 John, v. 7. 'For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one."" [Stillman p. 148.

"The Christian who receives the sacred scriptures as the ground of his faith and practice, will also admit the doctrine of a Trinity in Unity. That there are three who bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one God." [Stillman, 286.]

Col. ii. 9. "For in him," i. e. Christ, "dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily." It seems that Paul could say no more than this to establish the deity of his master. What a striking gradation is here; in Christ dwells the Godhead-the fullness of the Godhead--yea, all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. Then surely he is very and eternally God." (Stillman's sermons, p. 140.)

*The reader will find these passages with many others, noticed in another place, on Difficult Passages.

The following extract is from the Litany used in the Episcopal Church.

ners.

"O God, the Father of Heaven, have mercy upon us, miserable sin

"O God, the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy upon us, miserable sinners.

"O God, the Holy Ghost, proceeding from the Father and the Son, have mercy upon us, miserable sinners.

"O holy, blessed, and glorious Trinity, three persons and one God, have mercy upon us, miserable sinners."

If we are to understand language in its common acceptation, the a bove extract inculcates the worship of four Gods. The Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost, and the Trinity, are here addressed separately, and respectively, under the title of God.

If your confusion is not completed read the following.

"Christ's satisfaction for sin was only by his last sufferings, though it was principally by them; but all his sufferings, and all the humiliation that he was subject to from the first moment of his incarnation to his resurrection, were propitiatory or satisfactory." (President Edward's Hist. Redemption.)

I shall only refer you to the chapter on Atonement for an exposition of these sentiments.

Let me now have your attention while I examine some of the hymns, which are universally used in worship, by the believers in a Mangod.

"Ye worship ye know not what."

"The lands, that long in darkness lay,
Now have beheld a heavenly light;
Nations that sat in death's cold shade,
Are blest with beams divinely bright.

In what did this divine light consist?

answer,

"The virgin's promis'd Son is born;
Behold the expected child appear!
What shall his names, or titles, be?
The Wonderful, the Counsellor.

Here we have a hymn of praise to the infant GOD, and hundreds of others can be given, if necessary to prove their absurdity, contradiction, cruelty, idolatry! and abominable superstition. Look at it! Here you have GOD ALMIGHTY, (sacred name) a poor, helpless INFANT! SUCKLED and nursed by a delicate female! What horrid blasphemy! Yet, the very men who preach such nonsense, tell us our carnal reason cannot comprehend such MYSTERIES! Now reader, let me plainly tell you, that Unitarians Now observe, Jesus is here called the do not teach or believe such non-sense ' Son; and the titles given to him are cor- and for this very reason, and no other, rect. But, do the orthodox, the Calvin- the Trinitarians, whom I have named, ist Baptists', the Presbyterians, the Me- charge the Unitarians with denying the thodist's, and other Trinitarians, really God who made them, the atonement, rebelieve that Jesus was the Son of God? in generation, faith in Christ, and some oththe same sense in which we speak of a er doctrines, all of which are mentioned father and son? No. They all profess in this book. But, the Trinitarians not truly and sincerely to regard and believe only worship the infant God on his him the FATHER himself! And ac- mother's breast, but believe this infant cordingly, we find, in all their hymn begat himself! and more than all, was books, these idolatrous and abominable the FATHER, the Son, and the Holy sentiments, which nobody can understand, Ghost !!!!!! This is the Orthodox Trinand which, we are told, our carnal rea- ity-" three persons in one God,' " and son cannot comprehend, for they are sa- this God an helpless infant !!!! Truly, cred mysteries!! Thus have such sen- it is not only beyond carnal wisdom to timents been propagated; and to this hour comprehend such a God, but a violation men assemble to worship this imaginary of common sense to attempt it. And this deity, and sing these hymns to his praise; is far from being the worst part of the like the following:

"This infant is the MIGHTY GOD,
Come to be SUCKLED and adored:
The Eternal FATHER, Prince of peace,
The Son of David, and his Lord."

See Watts' 13th H. 1st b.

monstrous system of Orthodoxy; the reader must peruse this whole work to learn what it is. I shall now produce some Hymns, which are sung every Sabbath in Trinitarian churches, and found in their Sunday School books. As these hymns are read, remember they are ascriptions

of praise and devout thanksgiving to

How sublime! Poor souls! [will some

our Heavenly Father. See if you can of the great D. D's. inform me when this sing and make melody in your HEART took place?] My bible says nothing about to the Lord, in the use of these Spiritual casting angels or men down to hell pursuSongs, these heavenly and melodious or-ed by thunder-bolts and flaming wrath!' thodox hymns, now in common use by all Only think, these sentiments are ascribed Trinitarians throughout these United to God as an expression of praise! Do States. they make your heart burn with love and admiration? If not, let us proceed,

Jesus, the man of constant grief,
A mourner all his days,-
His spirit once rejoic'd aloud,
And turn'd his joy to praise.

"Down from the top of earthly bliss,
Rebellious man was hurled;

And Jesus stoop'd beneath the grave,
To reach a sinking world.

Here the infant God is addressed as
Jesus, the man,'-to account for this con- Must angels sink forever down,
tradiction, the Trinitarian clergy tell us
that Jesus was not only the Father, the
Son, and the Holy Ghost, but a man also!
and he is styled, the incarnate God, God-
man, Christ, Messiah, Saviour, and the
Triune God! [See article on the two
natures in Christ. Let us now read
some of these divine songs of praise:

And burn in quenchless fire-
While GOD forsakes his shining throne,
To raise us wretches higher?"

"Father, I thank thy wondrous love.
That hath revealed thy Son
To inen unlearned; and to babes
Has made thy gospel known.

H.96, 2 b.

If a man should use such language to a fellow man, he would be liable to prosecution and punishment-but ministers can preach such blasphemous STUFF-and more than this-ministers can make the people sing these songs, or any others.In this hymn, we see all the horrid dogmas of orthodoxy, which teaches, in addition to the foregoing, that GOD was Here observe, the Father is thanked actually put to death!!! It is said above, for the gift of the Son-and yet the Son 'While God forsakes his shining throne,' is the Father! according to all orthodox that refers to the time when our Father creeds so that the next verse says,

"The mysteries of redeeming grace
Are hidden from the wise;
While pride and carnal reas'nings join

To swell and blind their eyes!

Thus does the Lord of heaven and earth
His great decrees fulfil;
And orders all his works of grace,
By his own sovereign will."
Watts, h 12; 1 b.

left heaven, as all the orthodox teach, to
become a mourner and die!! According
to this shocking idea, we find the Trini-
tarian hymn books, abound with songs of
this character. Hear this,

Let the old heathens tune their song
Of great Diana and of Jove;
But the sweet theme that moves my
Is my Redeemer and his love. [tongue,

Behold a GOD descends and DIES,
To save my soul from gaping hell:
Such are the confused ideas and sen- How the black gulf where Satan lies,
timents now taught at all Trinitarian Yawn'd to receive me when I fell !"

H. 21, 2 b.

schools, academies, and colleges !! in the United States-and I challenge all the Presidents' of our colleges, all the Theo- It truly makes my heart ache to read logical professors, and all the Doctors in such monstrous words-and when, I conDivinity, [or Divination more properly] sider that these hymns are sung in meetin America, to deny or refute this truth. ing houses dedicated to the God and FaLet us read more of these beautiful, ther of all men, as songs of devotion and elevating, and inspiring songs. Hear this, praise, I am at a loss to express my sur

prise and astonishment. As the Saviour

"Down headlong from ther native skies said to the woman of Samaria, so I may The rebel angels fell;

And thunder-bolts of flaming wrath

Pursued them down to hell.

truly say to all Trinitarians, "Ye worship ye know not what." [See article on atonement, original sin, and Satan, in this