AMERICAN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION CONFIRMED BY OSTON, MASS TRINITARIAN TESTIMONIES; BEING SELECTIONS FROM THE WORKS OF EMINENT THEOLOGIANS BELONGING TO ORTHODOX CHURCHES. With Introductory and Occasional Remarks. BY JOHN WILSON, AUTHOR OF SCRIPTURE PROOFS AND SCRIPTURAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF UNITARIANISM." BX9841 W5 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by HENRY A. MILES, SEJRETARY OF THE AMERICAN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. UNIVERSITY PRESS: JOHN WILSON & SON, UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA PREFACE. ABOUT thirteen years ago, the author published in England a work entitled "The Concessions of Trinitarians," the object of which was to prove, from the comments and criticisms of distinguished divines belonging to Orthodox churches, the truth of Unitarianism in regard to the teachings of Scripture on the subject of the personality and relations of God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit. Judging, shortly after his arrival in this country in 1846, that, from the kind reception which it had met with, and the small number of copies on hand, the book would soon be out of print, he thought it desirable to republish it on an enlarged scale; and, accordingly, since that time, he has devoted a considerable portion of his leisure hours to the examination of theological works, with the view of making such extracts as seemed best suited to effect his design. The "Concessions" consisted of a selection of remarks on texts taken up according to the order in which they occur in the authorized version of the Bible, with an Introduction of seventy-six pages of miscellaneous matter. That Introduction forms the basis of the present volume, but has been subjected to so many changes in arrangement, and expanded so much in its character and plan, that it has been deemed advisable to designate this publication by a new title. |