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Excerpt from A New Chain of Plain Argument, Deemed Conclusive Against Trinitarianism: Addressed to a Trinitarian Writer for the Panoplist, in a Series of Candid Letters
AS the following letters will first meet your eye from the press, you will be apprized of the subject of them as soon as you shall have read the title page. May it not then be well for you to call to mind one of the resolutions of the celebrated President Edwards, before you come to any thing of the nature of argument in what I shall offer for your consideration? I observe, says Mr. Edwards, that old men seldom have any advantage of new discoveries, because they are fixed in a way of thinking to which they have long been accustomed. I re solved, ii ever I come to years, that I will be impartial to hear the [reasons of all pretended discoveries, and receive them, if rational, how long so ever I have been used to a different way of thinking. Happy it would be for individuals; happy it would be for the church of God and for society atjlarge', if men in every station of influence would ever act in strict conformity to the foregoing resolution. But Sir, how rarely do men act as. Mr. Edwards saw that propriety and his own advantage re? Quired of him? Do you not at once perceive, that it is not a very easy thing for one in your situation to lay aside all self interest, prejudice, and prepossessions, so as' to consider duly, and weigh impartially, any arguments, which may be offered against the doctrine of the Trinity? After having taken, so deep an interest in the support of such doctrine, representing any departure from it as of the most fatal tendency, must you not have a very uncommon share of self-command to be imi partial in respect to any reasons, which can be assigned, for not believing that there are threepersons in Deity? Ought you not then to take the more pains to prepareyourself to read and consider as your own advantage, even in this case, may require? For after all the assurance you have felt to the' con-i trary, is it not, at least, fiassz'ble that a form of words, not found in the bible, and which first came into use in a time when the minds, of men were greatly heated by controversy, may at last he found without any solid foundation And if it be fidssz'f ble that you, with great numbers of worthy men, may have this. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
