The editor has taken the liberty to add a

the volume.

one note of

few notes and references in different parts of These, with the exception of considerable length which concludes the Appendix, are carefully distinguished by being enclosed in brackets. Whatever is so enclosed is editorial, except where brackets occur in the course of quotations made by the author.

An Index to passages of Scripture quoted or referred to, and a General Index, have also been added to the work.

CAMBRIDGE, April, 1856.

E. A.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF MR. NORTON, BY THE REV.

WILLIAM NEWELL, D.D.

ix

THE PROPER MODERN DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY CON-

TRADICTORY 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 PRE-

TENCE THAT EITHER DOCTRINE IS EXPRESSLY TAUGHT

IN THE SCRIPTURES. -THE MODE OF THEIR SUPPOSED

PROOF WHOLLY BY WAY OF INFERENCE

40

SECTION III.

THE PROPOSITION, THAT CHRIST IS GOD, PROVED TO BE

FALSE FROM THE SCRIPTURES

65

SECTION IV.

ON THE ORIGIN OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY

94

SECTION V.

CONCERNING THE HISTORY OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE

HYPOSTATIC UNION

SECTION VI.

DIFFICULTIES THAT MAY REMAIN IN SOME MINDS RESPECT-

ING THE PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE ALLEGED BY TRINI-

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

SECTION IX.

EXPLANATIONS OF PARTICULAR PASSAGES OF THE NEW

TESTAMENT, ADDUCED BY TRINITARIANS

CLASS I. Interpolated and Corrupted Passages

CLASS II. Passages relating to Christ which have been

mistranslated .

107

136

138

156

174

183

191

CLASS III. Passages relating to God, which have been in-

correctly applied to Christ

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

203

215

221

CLASS V. Passages relating to the divine authority of

Christ as the minister of God, to the manifestation of di-

vine 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

CLASS VI. Passages misinterpreted through inattention

to the peculiar characteristics of the modes of expression

in the New Testament

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 obvi-

ous and indisputable Characteristics of Language are

disregarded

253

286

304

APPENDIX.

NOTE A.

385

EXPLANATION OF JOHN vi. 61, 62.

NOTE B.

ON THE EXPECTATIONS OF THE APOSTLES CONCERNING

THE VISIBLE RETURN OF THEIR MASTER TO EARTH

NOTE C.

BY THE EDITOR.

VARIOUS READINGS OF CERTAIN PASSAGES SUPPOSED TO

HAVE A BEARING ON THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY

INDEX TO PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE QUOTED OR RE-

FERRED TO

GENERAL INDEX

393

432

483

489