XXXVI. Another objection, the answer of which goes to show, that original page sin in the descendants of Adam, is so far from being repugnant to the NUMBER IV. On the Blessed Trinity. ... 137 XXXVII. Division of the whole dissertation on the Trinity, .... XXXVIII. A Sketch of the chief errors that have been broached since the beginning of Christianity, against the mystery of the Blessed Trinity,....... ....... 139 XXXIX. The Mystery of the Blessed Trinity infinitely surpasses all created understanding,................................... XL. The production or the creation of the universe out of nothing, in time furnishes us with some kind of proof of the existence of another hidden and eternal production, out of the very nature of God, from all eternity, ..... 150 152 XLI. The plurality of persons in the supreme unity of God, NUMBER V. XLIII. The Mystery of the Blessed Trinity established by plain Scriptural XLIV. The same proved from the authority of the councils of the primitive Church, ....... XLVI. The same established by the constant and perpetual tradition of the Church, XLVII. Unitarian objections answered, .... XLVIII. The constant and uniform belief of the Blessed Trinity evinced ..... 178 182 ... 190 194 L. The Holy Ghost is proved from the Scriptures to be the true God, and .... 201 202 swered, 203 LV. Extract from Bossuet's meditations on the divinity of the Holy Ghost, 215 NUMBER VI. CLIV. Preface, which on the one side sets forth the baneful tendency of Unitarianism, by denying the godhead of Jesus Christ, and on the other, the futility of their ungodly attempts against this fundamental dogma of Christianity,...... Page, 221 CLV. On the Personal greatness, or on the Perfections of Jesus Christ,.... 225 CLVI. Wisdom of Jesus Christ in his doctrine, in his maxims, in his parables, in his answers and replies, in his exhortations, in the divine manner of delivering them, CLXIV. Sanctity of Jesus Christ,...... CLXXI. Jesus Christ is the only man that has united all extremes of oppo site virtues, ................ 226 236 CLXXX. On the beauty, excellency, and sanctity of the law of Jesus Christ, 240 CLXXXII. The law of God must be worthy of God, proportionate to the nature, to the end, and to the state of man, and of course, it must consist in loving God as God, in loving himself as a rational being, and his fellow-men as himself, and such is the law of Jesus Christ,... 249 CLXXXIII. Characteristics of the love of God according to the law of Jesus ......... 251 CLXXXVIII. Characteristics of what man owes to himself conformably to Christ........ law of Jesus Christ, CXCIV. Characteristics of the love which man owes to his fellow-creatures, according to the law of Jesus Christ,............ NUMBER VII. 253 ...... 258 CXCVIII. Developement of the means which Jesus Christ has pointed out to men to preserve and to perfect in themselves the three kinds of love, which his holy law prescribes,......... CXCIX, Precepts of Jesus Christ respecting Pride,.................... CCIII. Wisdom of the Counsels of Jesus Christ,............ 262 262 271 272 275 277 CCIV. Reflections on the legislation, or the moral law, of Jesus Christ,........ 279 CCV. Extract from the Universal History of B. Bossuet on the Personal character of Jesus Christ, and the Mysteries of the adorable Trinity and the Incarnation,............................ END OF VOL. I. 281 DAVIS & FORCE, PRINTERS. Philosophically and Theologically Examined: IN A SERIES OF PERIODICAL NUMBERS; COMPRISING A COMPLETE REFUTATION OF THE LEADING PRINCIPLES OF THE UNITARIAN SYSTEM. "Videte, ne quis vos decipiat per Philosophiam et inanem fallaciam, secundum traditionem hominum, secundum elementa mundi, et non secundum Christum : quia in ipso inhabitat omnis plenitudo Divinitatis corporaliter." "Beware, lest any man impose upon you by Philosophy and Vain fallacy, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the World, and not according to Christ: For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead corporally." Colossians, ii. chapter, 8, 9. BY THE REV. ANTHONY KOHLMANN, VOL. II. WASHINGTON CITY: PUBLISHED BY H. GUEGAN, BOOKSELLER, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, DAVIS AND FORCE, PRINTERS. 1822. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, to wit: BE IT REMEMBERED, That, on the twelfth day of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the forty-sixth, Anthony Kohlmann, of the said district, has deposited in the office of the Clerk of the District Court, for the District of Columbia, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit: "Unitarianism Philosophically and Theologically examined in a series of periodical numbers; comprising a Complete Refutation of the Leading Principles of the Unitarian System." In conformity of the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned;" and also to the Act, entitled "An Act supplementary to an Act, en titled An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned,' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching, historical and other prints." [L. S.] IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the public seal of my office, the day and year aforesaid. EDMUND I. LEE, Clerk of the District Court for the District of Columbia. CONTENTS. FIRST DOGMATICAL POSITION. Jesus Christ is not only man, but also true God, the natural and only- begotten Son of the living God, consubstantial with the Father. I. ARGUMENT. Derived from the titles which are peculiar to God, and which are given to Christ. No. VIII,........................................... II. ARGUMENT. From the nature of God, which is ascribed to Jesus Christ in the Scriptures. No. VIII,................................. III. ARGUMENT. Drawn from the Divine attributes, which are predi- 43-48 V. ARGUMENT. From the worship, which is due to God only, and which is also paid to Jesus Christ. No. VIII,........................ VI. Argument. Drawn from the general tenour of the Sacred Scrip- 50-67 |