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A Statement of Reasons for not Believing the Doctrines of Trinitarians
A Statement of Reasons for not Believing the Doctrines of Trinitarians Author:Andrews Norton, William Newell Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PREFACE. In the year 1819, I published an article in a periodical work, of which a number of copies were struck off separately under the title that I have giv... more »en to this volume. I have since been requested to reprint it, and some years ago undertook to revise and make some additions to it for that purpose. Being, however, interrupted, I laid by my papers, and had given up the intention, at least for an indefinite time. But having lately received an application from a highly esteemed friend, strongly urging its republication, I resumed the task; and the result has been, that I have written a new work, preserving indeed the title of the former, and embodying a great part of its contents, but extending to three times its size. I have said, " I resumed the task " ; and the [The Christian Disciple. See Vol. I. Now Series,pp.370-431. The article referred to was occasioned by Professor Stuart's Letteri to Dr. Charming.] expression is appropriate, for the discussion is one in which no scholar or intellectual man can, at the present day, engage with alacrity. To the great body of enlightened individuals in all countries, to the generality of those who on every subject but theology are the guides of public opinion, it would be as incongruous to address an argument against the Trinity, as an argument against transubstantiation, or the imputation of Adam's sin, or the supremacy of the Pope, or the divine right of kings. These doctrines, once subjects of fierce contention, are all, in their view, equally obsolete. To disprove the Trinity will appear, to many of whom I speak, a labor as idle and unprofitable as the confutation of any other of those antiquated errors; and to engage in the task may seem to imply a theologian's ignorance of the opinions of the world, and the prepostero...« less