merely by the learned of this and former centuries, but by any human creature whatever.

6th, It is a presumption in favour of the Unitarian hypothesis, that it requires no metaphysics, but to controvert the opinion of its adversaries.

7th, If the Trinitarian hypothesis were true at all, it is reasonable to conclude, that, since one great end of the mission of our Saviour was to propagate just notions concerning the Deity, in lieu of the false and idolatrous opinions of the heathens on that subject, this doctrine of the Trinity would be so plainly and repeatedly delivered, that no mistake could possibly arise concerning it.

8th, It is a presumption highly favourable to the Unitarian opinion, that its advocates can have had no motive to induce them to adopt it, but its intrinsic verity : on the contrary, every motive which human means are capable of furnishing to suppress an opinion, have been exerted to suppress the opinion that neither Christ nor the Holy Spirit appear, from the

scriptures, to be entitled to the name of God, or to divine honours.

9th, It is a presumption also in favour of the Unitarian opinion, that it is more than countenanced by a great number of express and exclusive passages of scripture, while the opposite opinion is not expressed in any one genuine passage throughout the Bible, but gathered by implications directly opposite in their intent to the letter and spirit of the Unitarian passages above-mentioned, as well as the general tenor of the rest of scripture. Thus of thirteen hundred passages in the New Testament wherein the word God is mentioned, not one of them necessarily implies a plurality of persons.

Passages wherein God is mentioned in the Old Testament, in such a manner as to exclude any other being whatever from the title, save one. Exod. xx. 3, "Thou

shalt have no other Gods before me." Deut. v. 7, Thou shalt have none other Gods before me." Chap. iv. 35, “Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the Lord, he is God, there is

Ver. 39, "Know consider in thine

none else besides him." therefore this day, and

heart, that the Lord he is God in the heaven above, and upon the earth beneath, and there is none else." Chap. xxxv. 39, "See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no God with me." 2 Sam. vii. 22, "Wherefore thou art great, O Lord God, for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears." Chap. xxii. 32, "For who is God save the Lord, and who is a rock save our God?" 1 Kings xviii. 39, "And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces, and they said, the Lord he is the God, the Lord he is the God." 2 Kings xix. 15, "O Lord God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone." Ver. 19, "That all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord God, even thou only." 1 Chron. xvii. 20, "O Lord there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears." Ps. xviii. 31, "For who is God save the Lord, and who is a rock save our God?"

Ps. lxxxvi. 10, "For thou art great and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone." Is. xxxvii. 16, "O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone." Chap. xliv. 6, "I am the first and I am the last, and besides me there is no God" Ver. 8, "Is there a God besides me? Yea, there is no God, I know not any." Chap. xlv. 5, "I am the Lord, and there is none else; there is no God besides me." Ver. 21, "There is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour, there is none beside me." Ver. 22, Ver. 22, "I am God, and there is none else." Hos. xiii. 4, "Yet I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no God but me.

1st, These passages do, in express terms, purposely framed, even to tautology, exclude every other being whatever, save one numerically, from the title of God.

2d, The pronouns used respecting this one God, are all singular, I, He.

3d, Considering the number of passages wherein, in the Old Testament, God is

mentioned as one being only, or at least apparently so, if the doctrine of the Trinity were true, it is highly probable that great care would have been taken, that these passages should not operate to the exclusion of the idea of a Trinity among the Jews; but through the whole of the Old Testament there is none such.

4th, The Jews, on the contrary, always have been, and still continue Unitarians; nor is there the least trace of a Trinitarian doctrine extant among them, in any age, or a Trinitarian exposition in any of their writings.

Cooper's Summary.

THIRD SERIES.

1st, In the promises and prophecies, which relate to Christ, he is spoken of as one of the human race.

2d, The gospel history is the history of a man, whom God anointed with the Holy Spirit and with power.

3d, The testimony of the apostles, as recorded in the book of Acts, relates to a man whom God raised from the dead.