Evangelical Christianity Considered Author:John Grundy Subtitle: And Shewn to Be Synonimous With Unitarianism, in a Course of Lectures on Some of the Most Controverted Points of Christian Doctrine Addressed to Trinitarians General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1813 Original Publisher: Printed by C. Stower Subjects: Unitarianism Trinity Religion / Christian Theolog... more »y / General Religion / Christian Theology / Systematic Religion / Theology Religion / Unitarian Universalism Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SUPPLEMENT LECTURE VII. EXTRACTS FROM A LETTER ON THE TRINITY, BY NON QUIS, 8ED QUID. A. D. 1694. 1st, There is nothing, with submission to the learned writers who have so much vexed this controversy, more unaccountable and absurd than their jangling and wrangling about the meaning of the word person. It is a great argument they have forgot, or do not believe the Athanasian Creed, which saith, ' We are compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge every person to be by himself God.' And if a person was any thing but God, or not the same with God, it would be ido- latry to worship him. Is it not a demonstration that those that pay the highest adoration to a person, have no different ideas of God and a Divine Person, but, by adoring him, do acknowledge him to be God ? And is not a Divine Person an Uncreate, Eternal, Incomprehensible, Almighty Being? And what is God, but such a Being ? We cannot have a higher idea of God, than that he is such a Person ; and to frame any other, it must be one that is lower, and consequently blasphemy against God. Were there any thing more in God than in a Divine Person, he could not be God. 2d, If a man is an animal, all that is in the idea of animal must be contained in that of man, otherw...« less