v...1828. AN 233 EXPLANATORY VIEW OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY, AS IT IS DELIVERED IN THE SCRIPTURES. BY THE REV. J. G. TOLLELE OFFICIATING MINISTER OF DUKE STREET CHAPEL, Let the particulars be specified, wherein they (the Church Governors) LONDON: PRINTED BY J. F. DOVE, ST. JOHN'S SQUARE: AND SOLD BY C. RICE, MOUNT STREET, BERKELEY SQUARE. 1827. AN EXPLANATORY VIEW, &c. THE subject of which I purpose to treat, is the Revealed Doctrine of the Holy Trinity. And this I will do, by stating, plainly and without reserve, the opinion which I have been led to form on the matter, from an attentive and unbiassed consideration of what is delivered respecting it in the Scriptures. In what regards the essential part of the doctrine, my view coincides, as may be supposed, with that of the Church of which I am a sincere, though unworthy, minister. But in the mode of explaining it, I seem to myself to be able to place the subject in a new and more satisfactory light. And as this exposition differs considerably from the established one, it will, perhaps, be right to say something previously on the freedom which I have thus allowed myself to use in forming my opinion. B To those persons who understand, and rightly appreciate the true Protestant principle on which our church is founded, no apology will be necessary for this endeavour to elucidate this most important doctrine. They well know that it is to the exercise of that principle of free inquiry on the grounds of Scripture, and reason subordinately to Scripture, that we owe, under the blessing of God, our emancipation from a mass of long-continued error, and our present excellent reformed religious establishment. And they will readily admit, that it is only by a continued exercise of the same principle, on the same grounds, that we can hope to carry forward that system of doctrines and discipline, towards perfection; that it is only by temperate and suitable investigation, under heavenly protection, that the cause of truth can be established. Nothing, therefore, need be said to propitiate these persons to the present inquiry. But, as there may be, and, I believe, are some among us, who, while they deny not the justness of the principle of free inquiry, still think that the subject of our religion |