This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ... discourse ii. unitarians not infidels. But We Desire To Hear Of Thee What Thou Thinkesi For As Concerning This Sect, We Know That Everywhere it is spoken against.--ActS xxvitf. 22. The most common accusation made against Uni tarians is, that they are unbevers. This is no new charge, as brought by one ufifSjtian denomination against another. It is often, and very easily, said, by one controversialist against another, that he is an infidel, or an unbeliever. And the charge generally amounts to this, that one denies what the other believes. Each insists on the particular doctrine which he makes prominent, as the great, central truth of the Gospel, and says, and perhaps things, that his opponent, if he denies that, might as well deny the whole Gospel. This is precisely the case in the present instance. It is said of us, that we do not believe in Christ. This is an equivocal expression. It may mean, that we do not believe that any such person ever lived. It may mean, that we put no confidence in what he said, --that he was not what he pretended to be, or what his disciples afterwards pretended he had been. It may mean, and does probably mean, in the case we are considering, that we do not believe that he was God. The phraseology is sometimes varied, and it is said that we do not believe in the Divinity of Christ. This, again, is an equivocal expression. It may mean, that his person was divine, or that his words and actions were divine. It may mean that he was Jehovah, the only living and true God. In that case the proper expression would be, that we do not believe in the Deity of Christ. If Christ was not God, then we may believe in him, and believe in him to the saving of the soul, and still not believe that he wa