A statement of reasons for not believing the doctrines of Trinitarians, concerning the nature of God and the person of Christ

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Section II

The Proper Modern Doctrine of the Trinity contradictory in Terms to that of the Unity of God. — Forms in which the Doctrine has been stated, with Remarks. — The Doctrine that Christ is both God and Man, a Contradiction in Terms. — No Pretence that either Doctrine is expressly taught in the Scriptures. — The Mode of their supposed Proof wholly by way of Inference . 40

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Fundamental Principle of Interpretation violated by Trinitarian Expositors. No Proposition can be incomprehensible, in itself considered, from the Nature of the Ideas expressed by it . . . 156

Section IX

Explanations of particular Passages of the New Testament, adduced by Trinitarians . . . 174

Class I. Interpolated and Corrupted Passages . . 183 Class II Passages relating to Christ which have been mistranslated . 191

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Class III. Passages relating to God, which have been incorrectly applied to Christ . . 203

Class IV Passages that might be considered as referring to the Doctrine of the Trinity, supposing it capable of proof and proved, but which in themselves present no appearance of any proof or intimation of it . .215

Of Prayer to Christ ... 221

On the Pre-existence of Christ . ... 234-

Class V. Passages relating to the divine authority of Christ as the minister of God, to the manifestation of divine power in his miracles and in the establishment of Christianity, and to Christianity itself, spoken of under the name of Christ, and considered as a promulgation of the laws of God's moral government, — which have been misinterpreted as proving that Christ himself is God 253

Class VI. Passages misinterpreted through inattention to the peculiar characteristics of the modes of expression in the New Testament 286

Class VII. Passages, in the senses assigned to which, not merely the fundamental Rule of Interpretation, ex plained in Section VIII., is violated, but the most obvious and indisputable Characteristics of Language are disregarded 304

Class VIII. The Introduction of St. John's Gospel . 307

SECTION XI. Conclusion . 375

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