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The unity of God is a doctrine on which the greatest stress is laid in the whole system of revelation.
An History of the Corruptions of Christianity (1782)
As the greatest things often take their rise from the smallest beginnings, so the worst things sometimes proceed from good intentions.
An History of the Corruptions of Christianity (1782)
Most of the early Christian writers thought the text "I and my Father are one," was to be understood of an unity or harmony of disposition only.
An History of the Corruptions of Christianity (1782)
We, who only learn from history that crucifixion was a kind of death to which slaves and the vilest of malefactors were exposed, can but very imperfectly enter into their prejudices, so as to feel what they must have done with respect to it.
An History of the Corruptions of Christianity (1782)
Too many christians have been chargeable with... confounding the Logos of Plato with that of John, and making of it a second person in the trinity, than which no two things can be more different.
An History of the Corruptions of Christianity (1782)
From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices.
An History of the Corruptions of Christianity (1782)
He also compares his being raised upon the cross to the elevation of the serpent in the wilderness, and to seed buried in the ground, as necessary to its future increase. But all these representations are quite foreign to anything in the doctrine of atonement.
An History of the Corruptions of Christianity (1782)
It is hardly possible not to suspect the truth of this doctrine of atonement, when we consider that the general maxims to which it may be reduced, are nowhere laid down, or asserted, in the Scriptures, but others quite contrary to them.
An History of the Corruptions of Christianity (1782)