ON UNITARIANISM; ADDRESSED TO THE MEMBERS OF THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, IN THE CITY OF BALTIMORE. BY SAMUEL MILLER, D. D. PROFESSOR OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY AND CHURCH GOVERN TRENTON: PRINTED BY GEORGE SHERMAN,. BE it remembered, that on the nineteenth day of December, in the forty-sixth year of the Independence of the United States of America, GEORGE SHERMAN, of the said District, hath deposited in this Office, the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "Letters on Unitarianism; addressed to the members of the First Pres"byterian Church in the City of Baltimore. By SAMUEL MILLER, D. D. "Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Church Government, in the "Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, "at Princeton." In conformity to an 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 the act, 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 extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, etching, and engraving historical and other prints." WM. PENNINGTON, Clerk of the District of New-Jersey. CONTENTS. Introductory Remarks-Zeal of Unitarians to propagate their opinions-Design of these Letters-Attention to the subject earnestly requested-Leading articles of the Unita- Prejudices cherished by many against Orthodoxy-FIRST Prejudice, that Orthodoxy is austere and repulsive-Con- sidered, and an attempt made to remove it-SECOND Pre- judice, that Orthodoxy lays too much stress on opinion. Shewn to be unfounded—Unitarians have, at different times, made themselves equally liable to this charge- Names-This plea wholly unsound, and unscriptural The Scriptures the only rule of faith and practice-Testi- mony of Scripture decisive in favour of Orthodoxy-The Early Fathers equally clear in support of the same-Bar- nabas--Clemens Romanus-Polycarp--Ignatius-Ire- nous-Theophilus-Justin Martyr-Melito-Athenago- ras--Tatian--Clemens Alexandrinus-Andronicus- Tertullian-Minucius Felix-Origen-Cyprian-Diony- sius of Alexandria-Novatian-Arnobius-Lactantius-— Subject continued-Testimony drawn from the Heresies of the first four centuries-Cerinthians-Ebionites-Marci- on —Theodotus—Artemon—Noetus-Praxeas-Paul of Samosata-Arius--Macedonius-These hereticks denied the name of Christians—Their Baptisms pronounced void -Testimony of Pagans-Pliny-Hierocles-Celsus- Lucian-Witnesses of the Truth-Paulicians-Walden- |