Columbus Whig. (Columbus, Miss.) 1843-18??, 1844-02-29
~ TRINITY,

the doctrine Of Unita-
d, popular in this com>
not, from the first, ex-
! this subject would be
IiberaIity by all your
nded only for those who
there are some who viii
All. The last are not tes&
Enough honest, arc NOR
the Chords of pref udice
.bem to their own opia-
] no arguments to offer.
or the investigation of
II was i wise providence
4 prudent. But there are
nunity, who, with d hotd>
bodder at, dare believe
r the scrutiny offeason.
. e xamine by its light the
eternal interests. To
and in a spirit Of defer.
r. those who believe and
I ask them to examine
a fairly, the foundations
rines rest. In this spirit
II we investigate the SUBJ
% per, 1 attempted, in a
NV that the trinitaTTan dog
nth common sense. l did
this ground, because the
nd because there is abunA
b. as ] shall now do, that
datIon in the sacred scrip
bic be true, (and my argu>
for those only who believe
od, even the Father-and
N God and man, the man
mistaken, the whole Goc>
hangs chiefly upon one text.
the mysterious speculations
list. with which by way of
Is his history of Chris,.-"In
lie Word, and the Word was
Eord was God. BY him all
In him was life ; and the
men. And the light shineth
Z darkness comprehendeth
d was made flesh and dwelt
o words will admit ONO in,
Pm diffic ulties but, by far,
beaning which l can see in
word Of God, which is the
bich his will and power are
d here to represent that will
ford, or his will and eCono-
he world, was conceived be-
formed and existed with him
His word again, or what
l and power constituted his
word, or determination. al>
4 reference to the word, all
In this will, conceived and
and the life was the light of
hit shineth in darkness ; and
ehendeth it not :" that is, the
moved on, according to his
determined from the begin
hen thus lived, under this ve>
nevertheless all darkness to
moi comprehend it, because
b revealed TO them. But at
on was made to them through
thus, "the Word was made
hong rs" This, in all fairs
b be the most probable mean
attached to the words of the
No maintain as the trinitari>
De beginning this Word was
khrist was God, would be as
htradicted by the whole tenor
ch follows and at the same
every rule of interpretation
|eason.
besides this. a few ether texts
linitarians rely. But I do not
em injustice when l say that
| The strongest; and that the
Sequence, if these do not avail
Father are one" And also,
D me, hath seen the Father"
love that God and Christ are
|e same, then I am sure that
h the Bible to esta bilsh it,
That did Christ intend for his
Pom his declaration, that che
one ?" That they were one
bat the Father was in fact the
bic Father? That could not
b taught them differently. He
bction between himselfand Fa>
'm that he came to do, not his
hers will. And he had even
b 10 his Father. What, then,
? Why, nothing more than
Pther were agreed that there
Tween them that ne, In fact,
than the representative OF his
3 meant the same that he did
when he prayed that his disc
be one, as he and his Father
b Father, keep through thine
whom thou mas given me, that
as we are" the same idea is
passages. The other passage
ne hath seen the Fsther"-
% less consistent with his char
but as Gods chosen represen-
cry purpose Of his advent into
reveal God TO men-that the
> might see the Father. Who
? him saw the Father /; for the
revealed 10 the world in that
:. And in the same manner
me hath also honored the Fa-
~ dlshonor a messenger, and
resentative, you dishonor him
'ut IN tbs very same chapters
passages are taken, Christ him
lost unqualified and decisive
'Elorlty to God. Thus in the
n which one is taken, he says,
ye hear is not mine, but the
INT me- "For my Father is
And as the Father gaze me
zen SO | do" In the very next
d as lie often did, in the pres
les, asking Of God, aoh0t he de-
laem to understand that what
one in his own name, but by
who sent him.
INC side of this subject. And
noes when show that Christ is
acc, Christ did not come into
Infinite God, the fountain of
"a ms own name, pardon and
md ; but in the character of a
ng to the world his Fathers
ing men to God. This is the
lie preserves throughout the
gospel economy /; and never is
me ultimate arhiter of The I'm
mad been God, all our knowl>
"a have terminated in him +; and
i'd never have been directed as
are through him TO a higher
MS death, he made an atone :
rs OF men, TO whom was that
1t could not have been made
.lle VerU mot v,,av,lA haua h0on