A Designed End to the Socinian Controversy: or, a rational and plain Discourse to prove, that no other Person but the Father of Christ is God Most High.
This volume is a reprint of a book first published in 1695. In it, John Smith enters the controversy raging in London (c. 1687-98) over the doctrine of the Trinity. "The following is a brief outline... There is one God, who is one in nature, essence, and person; and it is He only who is the Father of Jesus Christ. Christ is not the true God, because he himself has a God above him; because what he does is by a power received from God; and because God and he are plainly distinguished. The Scriptures represent Christ as a man..." - Robert Wallace, in "Historical Sketch of the Trinitarian Controversy from the Accession of William III to the Passing of the Blasphemy Act. No. V". Smith was swiftly pressured to recant. Excerpts from a 1829 periodical and from volume III of Wallace's Antitrinitarian Biography are included here. They tell the story of Smith's persecution, and relate other facts about his life and writings....More >< Less
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