The Doctrine of the Trinity, Founded Neither on Scripture, Nor on Reason and Common Sense, But on Tradition and the Infallible Church, an Essay - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1831. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... REVIEW OF THE REV. JAMES CARLILES BOOK, ENTITLED JESUS CHRIST, THE GREAT GOD OUR SAVIOUR.' The first edition of the preceding Essay had scarcely appeared before the public, when it was attacked by a host of polemics, as by a simultaneous impulse, and almost every pulpit in Dublin rang with declamations against the soul-destroying heresy. In lhe van stood the Rev. James Carlile, one of the Ministers of Mary'a Abbey Meeting-house. Not contented with hurling his oral fulminations against it week after week--he determined to give the fruit of his oratorical labours to the world in the permanent form of paper, ink, and type. Great expectation was excited--mighty efforts were made among the orthodox, so called, of his own persuasion, to encourage him in the task--Bubscrip. tions were received--the work proceeded--the hour of parturition at length arrived--"The mountain laboured and a mouse was born?" No--but an overgrown semi-animate nondescript lusu.s theologiee, which expired a few days after its birth, and which it is our business to dissect for the instruction of students in theological anatomy. This new birth came out, branded with its dogmatical and idolatrous title, in the shape of a heavy volume, swollen with verbiage and tautology, containing 471 pages, with a preface of xv. In this, our author acknowledges his obligations to Dr. Wardlaw, whose old panoply, dinted and shattered as it was in the conflict with the Unitarian Yates, he is contented to stitch clumsily together, and to buckle on. He acknowledges his obligations to old Andrew Fuller, in whose putrid relics he had been raking in search of materiel to be employed in his sortie against the Unitarians. He "damns with faint praise" the Synod of Ulster, and evinces what spirit he is of, by treating ...

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