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Re: A Historical Tidbit.
So William Penn denied the Trinity?
Mistake me not, we never have disowned a Father, Word and Spirit, which are ONE, but men's inventions: For,
1. Their Trinity has not so much as a foundation in the Scriptures.
2. Its original was three hundred years after Christianity was in the world.
3. It having cost much blood; in the council of Simium, Anno 355, it was decreed, that thenceforth the controversy should not be remembered, because the Scripture of God made no mention thereof. Why then should it be mentioned now with a Maranatha on all that will not bow to this abstruse opinion?
4. And it doubtless hath occasioned idolatry; witness the popish images of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
5. It scandalizeth Turks, Jews and Infidels, and palpably obstructs their reception of the Christian doctrine.
Nor is there more to be said on the behalf of the other two: for I can boldly challenge any person to give me one Scripture phrase which does approach the doctrine of satisfaction, (much less the name) considering to what degree it's stretched; not that we do deny, but really confess that Jesus Christ, in life, doctrine and death, fulfilled his Father's will, and offered up a most satisfactory sacrifice, but not to pay God, or help him (as otherwise unable) to save men; and for a justification by imputative righteousness, whilst not real, it's merely an imagination, not a reality, and therefore rejected; otherwise confest and known to be justifying before God, because there is no abiding in Christ's love without keeping his commandments.
Last edited by NorCal; 11-30-2011 at 02:27 PM.
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