Unitarianism Philosophically and Theologically Examined

1. Introduction to the whole work, in which is set forth the divine strength
and perpetual triumph of the church of God over her enemies,

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II. Abstract of Unitarian Belief,

III. Unitarianism, a heterogeneous compound of former heresies, ............................

IV. Presumption alone, independent of the Promises of Christ to his Church,

shows Unitarianism to be a false system,

V. The Unitarian principle, that the Scriptures must have every where an

intelligible meaning is, when understood, in the Unitarian sense,

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false, irrational, and absurd,.......................................

VI. God has a right to reveal to men impenetrable mysteries, and to

exact from them an implicit belief in the same,......................

VII. If God cannot reveal mysteries to men, then God cannot communi-

cate himself at all to them; and if man cannot reasonably believe

what is above the sphere of his reason, he can believe nothing,

VIII. The assertion, that the mysteries of Religion involve contradiction,

is itself a contradiction in the very terms,...

IX. What is above reason is not always against reason,..............

X. It is most worthy of God's infinite wisdom and goodness to reveal mys-

teries to men,.............................

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NUMBER II.

On Original Sin.

XI. Division of the whole subject, and brief historical sketch of those an-

cient heresies that impugned original sin,

XII. Original Sin examined by the light of reason alone, unassisted by di-

vine revelation,

XIII. Man has no natural or sufficient aptness to know God as far as it is

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XV. Man is not such as he was created by his God,.......................

XVI. Two most intimate and opposite natural tendencies in the heart of

man, demonstrate that man is not such as he was created by his

Maker.....................

XVII. The conclusion is, that the nature of man is vitiated and corrupted,

No. VII.

'XX. Another moral proof that man is not such as he ought to be; he is

not such as he was created by God,.........

XXI. Vanity and want of reflection connatural to man,..

XXII. Conclusion from the above,.....................

XXIII. Man is out of his true and natural state,..

XXIV: Continuation of the same reflection,..................

XXV. The conclusion is, that man is out of his true and natural state,....
XXVI. Man, even if he wished, cannot return to his true and natural state,

NUMBER III.!

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XXVII. What has brought this great evil on mankind,.
XXVIII. General objection against the above dissertation, derived from the
possibility of the state of pure nature,......
XXIX. Original Sin irrefragably demonstrated from revelation and the Sa-
cred Volumes of both the old and new dispensation,......

XXX. Original Sin evinced from the authority and uniform consent of the

holy Fathers and other ecclesiastical writers of the primitive ages of

the Church,

XXXI. The same proved by the authority of the Councils of the four first

ages of the Church,..........................

XXXII. The same proved by the universality of the death of Christ for all

men,

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XXXIII. The same invincibly demonstrated, 1st, from the nature of bap-

tism; 2dly, from the necessity of baptism; 3dly, from the ceremonies

of baptism,

XXXIV. Unitarian objections answered, and the strange process of the

Unitarians in opposing their pretended superior reason to the over-

whelming weight of the past ages and all christendom proved to be

illegal, unphilosophical, such, in fine, as would be hooted out of any

court of human judicature,

XXXV. The christian cause against the Unitarians, proved to be sup-

ported by the most authentic and indisputable titles, the Scrip-

tures; the true and genuine meaning of these titles attested by the

most unexceptionable witnesses, the primitive Fathers of the Church;

by the decisions of the most respectable tribunals; the venerable

Ecomenic Councils: and, in fine, by a peaceful and undisturbed

prescription of eighteen hundred years, which prescription is evinced

by the uniform and constant belief and practice of the whole Chris-

tian world; from which christians logically conclude, that the mean-

ing in which the Christian world has hitherto taken the Scriptures,

is the only true, the only divine meaning, the only meaning intended

by the Holy Ghost-and, that of course the Unitarian novelties are

both anti-philosophical, and anti-scriptural,

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XXXVI. Another objection, the answer of which goes to show, that original
sin in the descendants of Adam, is so far from being repugnant to the
Justice or goodness of God, that it rather, when viewed in connection
with the gracious designs of the Most High on fallen man, gave occa-
sion, especially in the mysteries of the incarnation and redemption of
mankind, to the most splendid display of all the divine attributes,.. 124

NUMBER IV.

On the Blessed Trinity.

XXXVII. Division of the whole dissertation on the Trinity,
XXXVIII. A Sketch of the chief errors that have been broached since the
beginning of Christianity, against the mystery of the Blessed Tri-
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XXXIX. The Mystery of the Blessed Trinity infinitely surpasses all created
understanding,........................................
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XL. The production or the creation of the universe out of nothing, in time
furnishes us with some kind of proof of the existence of another
hidden and eternal production, out of the very nature of God, from
all eternity,

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XLI. The plurality of persons in the supreme unity of God,
XLII. Recapitulation of what has been discussed in this chapter,

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NUMBER V.

XLIII. The Mystery of the Blessed Trinity established by plain Scriptural

evidence, ........

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XLIV. The same proved from the authority of the councils of the primitive
Church,
XLVI. The same established by the constant and perpetual tradition of
the Church,

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XLVII. Unitarian objections answered,

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XLVIII. The constant and uniform belief of the Blessed Trinity evinced
from the Symbol of the Apostles, the Nicene creed, and the creed
that goes under the name of St. Athanasius,
XLIX. Extract from Bossuet's meditations on this truth-God, Father and
Son, .........

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L. The Holy Ghost is proved from the Scriptures to be the true God, and
therefore consubstantial with the Father, and with the Son,........ 196
LI. Second proof from the Greek and Latin primitive fathers of the Church, 199
LII. Third proof from the councils of the Church,...
LIII. Last proof from the argument of prescription,.
LIV. Objections against the dogma of the divinity of the Holy Ghost, an-
swered,