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ERAHMUNICAL
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enlightened amongst them, like several of the Greek
and Roman philosophers, yield, through policy, to the
vulgar opinions, though fully sensible of the unjustifia-
bleness of them. I am, however, sorry to observe that
the minds of a great number of Christians are so biassed
in favour of the doctrine of the Trinity from the
strong impression made on them by education in
their youth, that they can readily defy the suggestions
of the senses, reason, and experience in opposition to
this doctrine. They accuse Brahmunical priests of
having an unjust ascendancy over their pupils, while
they forget how greatly Christians are influenced by
their ministers so as to overlook the error of such an
analogy as the above, and others of a similar nature.
The Editor has first declared that " the Bible forbears
" to inform us how the Father, the Son, and the Holy
" Spirit exist" &c, " the triune God has not descended
" to inform us of the precise mode in which his infinite
" and glorious nature exists and acts ";—nevertheless as
he particularizes the mode of their existence and actions
separately and distinctly from the authority of t^e Bible,
stating that " the Son" who has existed with the Father
from eternity has created heaven and earth " that " from
" his infinite pity to sinful men he condescended to lay
aside his glory for a season •" that " taking on himself
the form of a servant he might wor ship and obey the
father as his God "; that " he prayed his father to glorify
him only with his own glory which he had with his
father before the foundation of the world and which
for a season he had laid aside f that " he was permitted
to ascend up where he was before and that lastly "he
was seated at the right-hando f the Majesty on high"
THE
ERAHMUNICAL
MAGAZINE.
enlightened amongst them, like several of the Greek
and Roman philosophers, yield, through policy, to the
vulgar opinions, though fully sensible of the unjustifia-
bleness of them. I am, however, sorry to observe that
the minds of a great number of Christians are so biassed
in favour of the doctrine of the Trinity from the
strong impression made on them by education in
their youth, that they can readily defy the suggestions
of the senses, reason, and experience in opposition to
this doctrine. They accuse Brahmunical priests of
having an unjust ascendancy over their pupils, while
they forget how greatly Christians are influenced by
their ministers so as to overlook the error of such an
analogy as the above, and others of a similar nature.
The Editor has first declared that " the Bible forbears
" to inform us how the Father, the Son, and the Holy
" Spirit exist" &c, " the triune God has not descended
" to inform us of the precise mode in which his infinite
" and glorious nature exists and acts ";—nevertheless as
he particularizes the mode of their existence and actions
separately and distinctly from the authority of t^e Bible,
stating that " the Son" who has existed with the Father
from eternity has created heaven and earth " that " from
" his infinite pity to sinful men he condescended to lay
aside his glory for a season •" that " taking on himself
the form of a servant he might wor ship and obey the
father as his God "; that " he prayed his father to glorify
him only with his own glory which he had with his
father before the foundation of the world and which
for a season he had laid aside f that " he was permitted
to ascend up where he was before and that lastly "he
was seated at the right-hando f the Majesty on high"