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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: The Confession of Belgium (A. D. 1566) declares, that There is one only simple and spiritual essence, which we call God, eternal, incomprehensible, invisible, immutable, infinite, etc. The Articles of the English episcopal church declare, that there is but one living and true God, everlasting, without body, parts, or passions, etc. The Confession of the Reformed churches in the Netherlands, revised at the Synod of Dort (A. D. 1618?1619), declares: We believe that there is one only and simple, spiritual Being, which we call God; and that he is eternal, incomprehensible, invisible, immutable, infinite, etc. (Vide Harmony of Confessions.) With these agrees the Westminter Confession, approved by the general Assembly of Divines in A. D. 1647, adopted by all the Presbyterian churches in Great Britain and America, and assented to by a great part of the Congregational churches in New England. Its words are: There is but one only living and true God, who is infinite in being and perfection, a pure spirit, invisible, without body, parts, or passions, immutable, immense, eternal, incomprehensible, etc. (West. Con. p. 32.) Now is this the denial of the divine unity, with which we are implicitly charged? Can Unitarians present a more complete description of the divine unity, than is presented by these Symbols of different denominations of Christians, who admit the doctrine of the Trinity ? But, admitting our statement of the divine unity to be correct, you will probably aver, that my second proposition is subversive of my first. Whether this be so, or not, is what I now propose to investigate. The common language of the Trinitarian Symbols is, that there are three Persons in the Godhead. In your comments upon this, you have all along explained the word person, ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217239813 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217239811 |
| Weight | 0.84 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.58 In |
| List Price | $21.79 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 254 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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