Cheap reprints of historical works on the doctrine(s) of the Trinity, by the blogger at trinites. Not being a big fan of inconsistency, he can't endorse all of their contents, but he believes it is valuable to read and think through previous debates on these topics. Your mileage may vary; these books range from violent polemics to learned master works - with more being the latter.
These reprints are for people interested in the content of the books, not for collectors interested in pretty reproductions. Efforts have been made to get a 100% complete and readable text, but in some cases that goal wasn't met, as explained in a few of the book descriptions. The Preview system lulu.com uses misrepresents the printed quality of scanned pages, as it generates preview images at a mere 100 dots per inch, whereas the books are printed from 300, 600, or 1200 DPI files.
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Print: $9.96 This lost classic on the Trinity is a short and clear work by David James, which reflects his deep familiarity with a massive English literature on the subject spanning roughly 1689 to 1780. James neatly summarizes competing views, with the aim of promoting sympathetic understanding of competing approaches, which he calls Tritheist, Arian, Sabellian, Trinitarian (real and nominal), and Socinian. This second edition of 1780 includes an Appendix on the central issue of the worship of Jesus Christ. This is a high quality reprint; the pages look much better than the above Preview. See here for more books on the Trinity.
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Print: $34.95 This volume is a reprint of a lost classic on the doctrine of the Trinity by Dr. Samuel Clarke (1675-1729), the famous philosopher, theologian, and friend of Sir Isaac Newton.
This is the definitive posthumous edition from his Works, printed in 1738. (The first edition was published in 1712.)
Also included are nine follow-up writings by Clarke, in which he responds to some of his many critics, as well as an account of Clarke's life by Benjamin Sarum.
In The Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity, Clarke lists and interprets every relevant passage in the New Testament, and carefully develops his own subordinationist understanding of the Trinity.
For other books on the Trinity, including multiple refutations of Clarke by his friend Dr. Daniel Waterland, and a book-length account of his life by his friend William Whiston, visit: http://trinities.org/books
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Print: $19.96 A famous defense of traditional trinitarian doctrine by Daniel Waterland. (1683–1740) This is only Vol. 1 of 6 volume set of Waterland's works, ed. by William Van Mildert in 1856. This volume contains Mildert's lengthy biographical essay, and Waterland's Vindication of Christ's Divinity, being a Defence of some Queries relating to Dr. Clarke's Scheme of the Holy Trinity. Here Waterland rebuts Samuel Clarke's famous The Scripture-Doctrine of the Trinity (reprint of the 2nd edition available at: www.lulu.com/content/734487). Waterland continued his attack in a number of works (not in this volume), which in turn received replies by Clarke and/or his allies. Further works by Waterland are reprinted here. For other Trinity books, see http://trinities.org/books.
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Print: $22.96 This volume contains three controversial works on the Trinity, all of which follow up on his initial answer to Samuel Clarke's The Scripture-Doctrine of the Trinity. These are A Second Vindication of Christ's Divinity, A Further Vindication of Christ's Divinity, and A Critical History of the Athanasian Creed. These reprints are from Volumes II and III of his Works, edited by William Van Mildert in 1856. For other books on the Trinity, see trinities.org/books
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Print: $19.96 The Rev. Dr. Daniel Waterland (1683–1740) - five apologetics writings on the Trinity. This material is from volumes 2 & 3 of Waterland's Works, edited by William Van Mildert in 1856. This volume contains: Eight Sermons, in Defence of the Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ An Answer to some Queries printed at Exon, relating to the Arian Controversy The Scriptures and the Arians Compared Five Letters to Mr. Staunton The Importance of the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity Other works by Waterland on the Trinity are available here and here.
The main target of Waterland's critiques, Samuel Clarke's The Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity (2nd. ed, 1719) is available here.
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Print: $12.68 Download: $3.75 A classic treatise on the doctrine of the Trinity, by Dr. Samuel Clarke (1675-1729), the famous philosopher, theologian, and friend of Sir Isaac Newton.
"The strengths of the book are its comprehensive setting-out of the evidence, the careful nature of its reasoning, and the clarity and moderation with which it draws its conclusions." - Maurice Wiles ( Archetypal Heresy, p. 112)
This reprint is of a rare 19th century edition of Clarke’s second edition (1719), which features a modernised and edited text. It features a new Introduction by Dale Tuggy.
Note: This reprint edition is marred by some fairly neat underlining on about 55 of the pages. The text is completely readable, but is not as sharp as one would like. See the preview, although the pages print somewhat better than the preview suggests. For other books on the Trinity, see trinities.org/books
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Print: $11.96 William Whiston (1667-1752) was an Anglican priest, mathematician, theologian, and historian. This book is an account of the life and work of his younger friend Dr. Samuel Clarke (1675-1729), the famous philosopher, theologian, and friend of Sir Isaac Newton. It focuses on the controversy surrounding Clarke's book The Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity (1st ed. 1712), (the best edition is available here) and on Clarke's subscribing to the Articles of the Anglican faith, which Whiston believed that Clarke ought not in good conscience do. Two appendices consist of accounts of Clarke's life by two of his other friends, which Whiston undertakes to correct on certain points.
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Print: $9.96 Download: $3.99 This book is a reprint of a volume printed in 1841, an edition of a work by Daniel Whitby (1638-1726) first(posthumously) published in 1727.
In this book, prolific and respected theologian Daniel Whitby aims to correct his previous errors and share his final thoughts on the doctrine of the Trinity, arguing for a subordinationist understanding of Jesus and God his Father, like that of his friend Samuel Clarke.
Full title:
The Last Thoughts of Dr. Whitby;
containing
His Correction of Several Passages
in his
Commentary on the New Testament.
To which is added,
Five Discourses,
On the Subordination of the Son, &c.
Published by his express order.
A New Edition.
To which is prefixed,
A Short Account of Dr. Whitby,
with a Catalogue of his Works.
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Print: $28.95 This reprint of Volume I of The Theological, Philosophical and Miscellaneous works of the Rev. William Jones (1801) It contains writings by trinitarian apologist and theologian William Jones (1726-1800), including
- The Catholic Doctrine of the Trinity, Proved by Above a Hundred Short and Clear Arguments, Explained in the Terms of the Holy Scripture (1767 - 1st ed. 1756).
- A Letter to the Common People, in Answer to popular Arguments Against the Trinity (This is a rebuttal to William Hopkins's An Appeal to the Common Sense of All Christian People, which is available here.
- A Preservative Against the Publications of Modern Socinians
- Seasonable Cautions Against Errors in Doctrine; in a Letter to a Young Gentleman at Oxford
- A Short Way to Truth: or the Christian Doctrine of a Trinity in Unity
as well as a brief "Life of the Author."
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Print: $24.95 This book is a reprint of a 1793 volume containing the following two works by the famous theologian, patristics scholar, and apologist Nathaniel Lardner (1684-1768):
A Letter Written in the Year 1730, Concerning the Question, Whether the Logos Supplied the Place of an Human Soul in the Person of Jesus Christ. To which are now added Two Postscripts: The First, containing an Explication of those Words, the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God, as used in the Scriptures. The Second, containing remarks upon the third Part of the late Bishop of Clogher's Vindication of the Histories of the Old and New Testament. (1759)
and
Two Schemes of a Trinity Considered, and the Divine Unity Asserted. Four Discourses Upon Philippians 2:5-11 (1784)
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Print: $18.92 Reprint of the 1871 edition. A unique book of intellectual history, tracing the course of many religious controversies in England from about 1661 to 1720, including the famous Deism controversy, the Trinitarian controversy of the 1690s, and controversies relating to religious freedom, the Quakers, evidences of Christianity, miracles, mysteries, and so on. The author tries, with varying degrees of success, to merely report both sides of the controversy without inserting (too much of) his own opinions. An unique source for students of historical theology or early modern English philosophy, or anyone interested in religious toleration or protestant theology.
Note: this reprint bears some flaws of the original book. For other reprints of books on the Trinity, see trinities.org/books.
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Print: $17.96 Download: $4.99 This is a reprint of a unique, rich book of intellectual history, the third and last in the series, published in 1873. It covers most of the 18th century in England. Author John Hunt recaps, with a high degree of clarity, brevity, and objectivity, a great number of religious and philosophical controversies, such as the "Arian" controversy between Clarke and Waterland of roughly 1712-29, various controversies about church-state relations, baptism, the eucharist, biblical criticism, belief in miracles, virtue, the nature of the soul, arguments for God's existence, natural theology, evil, faith, deism, idealism, David Hume's skepticism, the atonement, unitarianism, Calvinism, and Christian apologetics.
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Print: $23.95 Download: $3.99 Reprint of the 1941 printing of Catholic theologian Joseph Pohle's treatise on the Incarnation - the doctrine that the eternal Word of God united with a complete human nature, body and soul. Adapted and edited by Arthur Preuss, as a part of a multi-volume series on Catholic doctrine. Also available from this series, The Divine Trinity: A Dogmatic Treatise.
For other reprints of books on the Trinity, see trinities.org/books.
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Print: $22.99 Download: $3.99 Reprint of the 1919 printing of a classic Catholic treatise on the doctrine of the Trinity - the doctrine that God is three "persons" in one "essence" or "being". Adapted and edited by Arthur Preuss, as a part of a popular multi-volume series on Catholic doctrine. The Christology volume in this set is available at: http://www.lulu.com/content/732909 For other books on the Trinity go to http://trinities.org/books.
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Print: $13.96 Download: $3.99 A reprint of three brief works constituting a debate on the doctrine of the Trinity between two prominent American theologians, originally published between 1830 and 1855. The debate starts with William Ellery Channing's famous Unitarian manifesto in 1819 at the ordination of Jared Sparks. The second entry is Channing's tract of the same year, "Objections to Unitarian Christianity Considered". The last two thirds of this volume consists of a reprint of Moses Stuart's Letters on the Trinity and on the Divinity of Christ, which consists of his lengthy replies to Channing's original sermon of 1819. This reprint is nearly 100% readable, but the text quality in the Stuart portion is somewhat uneven and too light.
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Print: $19.96 Reprint of 1818 edition, translated by Thomas Rees from the 1680 Latin version of the Racovian Catechism by Crellius, Schlichtingius, Ruarus, Wissowatius, and "F.C.". This book is the classic expression of Socinian theology, called sometimes called "Biblical Unitarianism" today, to distinguish it from later (late 18th century to 19th century) "Unitarianism", as well as from 20th-21st century Unitarian-Universalism. According to the classic Socinian theology, Christ is the unique Son of God, worthy of worship, sacrificed for the sins of humankind, and raised from the dead, but is (only) a human, not divine. Features a lengthy, scholarly "Historical Introduction" by Rees. 404 pages. The pages print better than the Preview above shows, although the copy isn't flawless. For other books on the Trinity, see trinities.org/books
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Print: $32.95 This is an unedited reprint of a collection of tracts about the doctrine of the Trinity published by Thomas Firmin (1632-97) in 1691. It was a major shot in a war of words among Anglicans about the doctrine of the Trinity from about 1687-98. (For an overview of this, see Dixon's Nice and Hot Disputes.) The first part contains some writings from Firmin's long-departed friend John Bidle (Biddle) (1615-62) - the first prominent English unitarian. The second contains seven controversial, anonymous writings, about half of which are thought to be by Firmin's friend, the Reverend Stephen Nye (1648-1719). Some central points: the traditional, Athansian doctrine of the Trinity is inconsistent with itself, and with the Bible. Further, several then-recent traditionalist attempts to spell out what the Trinity doctrine amounts to are criticized. These tracts include the second, revised edition of A Brief History of the Unitarians, Called also Socinians. In Four Letters to a Friend.
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Print: $19.12 An unedited reprint of:
A Second Collection of Tracts,
Proving
The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the only True God;
And Jesus Christ the Son of God, him whom the Father sanctified and sent, raised from the Dead and exalted.
And disproving
The Doctrine of Three Almighty and Equal Persons, Spirits, Modes, Subsistences, or Somewhats in God; and of the Incarnation.
published in 1693. The tracts include (see preview of back cover for full list):
An accurate Examination of the principal Texts usually alledged for the Divinity of our Saviour.
Considerations on the Explications of the Doctrine of the Trinity, by Dr. Wallis, Dr. Sherlock, Dr. S---th, Dr. Cudworth, and Mr. Hooker; as also on the Account given by those that say, The Trinity is an unconceivable and inexplicable Mystery.
Several of the ten tracts are attributed to Stephen Nye (1648-1719). This book is a sequel to this one.
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Print: $24.95 This is an unedited reprint of:
In A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity: with an Answer to the late Socinian Objections against it from Scripture, Antiquity and Reason. And a Preface concerning the different Explications of the Trinity, and the Tendency of the present Socinian Controversie.(1697)
Stillingfleet (1635-1699) here enters a controversy that had begun in 1687 with the publication of Stephen Nye's A Brief History of the Unitarians, and had been stoked by many later controversial pamphlets and books, including The Faith of the One God, published by Thomas Firmin. (Available here.)
Stillingfleet defends traditional formulas about the Trinity from unitarians' charges of contradiction and poor fit with the Bible and early Christian tradition.
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Print: $14.36 Charles Leslie (1650 - 1722), Anglican nonjuring divine, was born and educated in Dublin, Ireland.
In 1689 he moved to England, and authored numerous polemical tracts on religious and political topics. The first edition of Leslie's Socinian Controversy Discuss'd was printed in 1708. He published a second edition in 1719. The edition reprinted here is from volume 1 of his two-volume Works, published in 1721. In this work of Christian apologetics, Leslie endeavors to refute anyone who might be considered "antitrinitarian". Some chief targets include Unitarians or Socinians such as Stephen Nye, and subordinationist Samuel Clarke.
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Print: $19.99 Download: $3.99 Theophilus Lindsey (1723-1808) might have attained the office of Bishop in the Anglican church, but he resigned his priesthood in 1773. He wrote this book to explain why.
This is a high quality reprint of the 5th edition, published in 1818.
"It may be some recommendation, if not of the truth of what is delivered, yet of the diligence and sincerity of the writer, that they are not sentiments taken up of yesterday, but the result of many years' painful and solicitous inquiry, not without frequent and earnest aspirations to the Father of Lights for direction and assistance; and to which, the prejudices of education and the suggestions of worldly ease and interest, were most opposed." (p. 4)
Lindsey's longer Sequel to this work is available here.
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Print: $30.95 Theophilus Lindsey (1723-1808) was a famous Unitarian clergyman and theologian. In 1773 he resigned his post as an Anglican clergyman, and shortly thereafter wrote his Apology to explain and justify his decision.
This book, published in 1776, is a lengthy and more detailed follow up to his Apology. In it he argues for a Unitarian interpretation of the Bible, with a non-trinitarian God and a humanitarian christology. He interacts with the interpretations and arguments of numerous earlier Trinitarians, Socinians, Unitarians, Arians, and subordinationists.
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Print: $17.96 Download: $4.00 Reprint of the 1820 edition. Full title: Memoirs of the Late Reverend Theophilus Lindsey, M.A., including a brief analysis of his works; together with anecdotes and letters of eminent persons, his friends and correspondents: also a general view of the progress of the unitarian doctrine in England and America. Second Edition, Corrected.
By Unitarian minister Thomas Belsham.
Belsham gives an account of the works and life of influential Unitarian Theophilus Lindsey (1723-1808). 423 pages. This reprint is good quality; the text has some spotting from the original, but there is no marginal writing or underlining, missing pages, or other significant defects. For other books on the Trinity and related topics, visit trinities.org/books
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Print: $23.99 Download: $4.95 Thomas Belsham (1750-1829) was an influential English Unitarian minister and theologian.
In this book Belsham argues at length for his humanitarian unitarian Christology, giving his reading of all the relevant New Testament texts, and interacting with numerous objections and alternative readings. In the final section of the book, Belsham classifies and critically weighs all the major approaches to Christology. This volume ends with a short biographical entry on Belsham from the Dictionary of National Biography.
This is an unedited reprint of the second edition of 1817.
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Print: $12.96 Download: $4.00 Reprint of the 1791 edition of three tracts by Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), constituting a sustained attack on Calvinism. These are: An Appeal to the Serious and Candid Professors of Christianity A Familiar Illustration of Certain Passages of Scripture, and A General View of the Arguments for the Unity of God This is a high quality & very readable reprint. The above Preview pages give you an idea of the page layout, but seriously under-represent the image quality. In other words, the words are printed much more clearly than they appear in the Preview above. For other books on the Trinity and related topics, visit
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Print: $19.96 Originally published by Priestley in 1782, this reprint is of the 1871 edition, which was a reprint of the 1818 edition edited by J.T. Rutt.
"After examining the foundation of our Christian faith, and having seen how much valuable information we receive from it, in my Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion, it is with a kind of reluctance, that... I must now proceed to exhibit a view of the dreadful corruptions which have debased its spirit, and almost annihilated all the happy effects which it was eminently calculated to produce." (Priestley's Preface, p. x)
This is a high quality & very readable reprint.
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Print: $14.96 This volume is a reprint of:
An Elucidation of the Unity of God, Deduced from Scripture and Reason, Addressed to Christians of All Denominations, Fifth edition, Enlarged. To which is subjoined, A Letter from the Author, to his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. Third edition, with Additions.
by James Gifford (1739-1813). The first edition was published in 1783, and the first edition of A Letter was published in 1785.
This posthumous 5th edition was published by his son William.
This is a good quality reprint - the above preview doesn't accurately represent the print quality.
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Print: $9.96 Download: $3.00 Reprint of four tracts published in 1829:
The Doctrine of Pronouns Applied to Christ's Testimony of Himself, by Noah Worcester
On the Evidence Necessary to Establish the Doctrine of the Trinity, by S.C. Thacher
The Apostle Paul a Unitarian (anonymous)
On the Doctrine of Two Natures in Christ, by Alvan Lamson
The first and last tracts argue against the doctrine that Jesus Christ possessed two natures, a complete human nature and the divine nature. The second and third argue that the doctrine of the Trinity lacks a basis in the New Testament.
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Print: $25.95 Download: $5.50 George Washington Burnap was born in Merrimack, New Hampshire on November 30, 1802. He graduated from Harvard in 1824, and in 1828 he was ordained pastor of the First Congregational church of Baltimore, Maryland. He died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 8, 1859.
This book is a reprint of his
Lectures on the Principal Passages of the Scriptures which relate to the Doctrine of the Trinity (1845)
His other theological works include:
Lectures on the Doctrines of Controversy between Unitarians and other Denominations of Christians (1835)
Lectures on the History of Christianity (1842)
Popular Objections to Unitarian Christianity Considered and Answered (1848) What is Unitarianism? (1848)
Lectures on Doctrines of Christianity (1848)
Discourses on the Rectitude of Human Nature (1850)
Christianity, its Essence and Evidence, or an Analysis of the New Testament (1855)
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Print: $15.96 This treatise by nineteenth century Unitarian John Wilson lays out a very comprehensive scriptural case for unitarianism and tries to rebut alleged scriptural evidence for trinitarianism. There are thousands of references to Bible passages and other relevant works. This reprint is of the 3rd edition, printed in 1846. The print quality is acceptable. However, when quoting the book sometimes switches to very small type,which can be hard to read, especially in italics.
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Print: $19.95 Download: $3.99 This book is an unedited reprint of
The Christian Layman: Or the Doctrine of the Trinity Fully Considered, According to the Bible.
The Second Edition Corrected and Abridged, with an Appendix.
By a Christian Layman [Benjamin Parsons]
published in 1842. (First edition: 1840)
" ...It is my design to bring forward and display all the testimony of God, which can have any relation, either directly or indirectly, to my subject... It is not... well to say (as has been said) that some parts of the Bible are contrary to, or inconsistent with reason; because, if both are the gifts of God, both his organs of speech, or his instruments of revelation, they cannot be contradictory, they must be consistent with each other. ...'Search the Scriptures, for it is they, which testify' of God and of Christ." (pp. 2-4)
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Print: $10.96 Download: $3.99 Full title: The Naked Gospel: Discovering I. What was the Gospel which our LORD and his Apostles Preached. II. What Additions and Alterations Latter Ages have made in it. III. What Advantages and Damages have thereupon ensued. Part I. Of Faith.
From the back cover:
The doctrines of the Gospel, Dr. Bury says, are summed up in two precepts - believe and repent. . . The traveler finds the sun a sufficient guide without knowing the origin and nature of solar light. In the same way Christ is a sufficient guide to the Christian without the knowledge of the mystery of His being.
This book was printed in 1691, and this reprint edition is almost totally readable, but is NOT pretty, nor is it easy to read. For other books on the Trinity: trinities.org/books
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Print: $17.96 Download: $3.99 This volume is an unedited reprint of a 1817 edition of:
A Discourse Concerning
I. The True Import of the Words Election and Reprobation, and the Things Signified By Them In The Holy Scripture.
II. The Extent of Christ's Redemption.
III. The Grace of God; Where It Is Enquired, Whether It Be Vouchsafed Sufficiently To Those Who Improve It Not, And Irresistably To Those Who Do Improve It; And Whether Men Be Wholly Passive In The Work Of Their Regeneration.
IV. The Liberty Of The Will In A State of Trial And Probation.
V. The Perseverance or Defectibility of the Saints, With Some Reflections On The State Of Heathens, The Providence And Prescience of God.
And Lastly, An Answer to Three Objections Against The Doctrines Asserted. To Which Is Added, A Postscript,
In Answer to Some of Doctor Edwards's Remarks.
Fourth Edition, Corrected.
originally published in 1710 (first edition). and 1735 (second edition).
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Print: $19.95 This is a reprint of the 1854, fifth edition. Noah Worcester (1758-1837) was a fifer with the American Revolutionary forces at the famous battle of Bunker Hill, and subsequently a Congregationalist minister in New Hampshire.
In 1810 Worcester published the first edition of Bible News, the product of decades of wrestling with the doctrine of the Trinity and its alleged basis in the Bible. An controversy ensued, and his denomination condemned him as an apostate. With little hope of ever preaching again in New Hampshire, Worcester was invited by some leading Unitarian clergymen to edit a new periodical, The Christian Disciple. Worcester moved to Brighton, Massachusetts, and edited that publication from 1813 to 1818. Worcester continued to periodically revise the Bible News. He is also well known as an early American advocate of pacifism, to which he devoted much energy in the last two decades of his life.
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Print: $20.95 Download: $4.99 Partial Table of Contents (see back cover for full): By John Disney (1746-1816):
A Friendly Dialogue: Between a Common Unitarian Christian, and an Athanasian; Occasioned by the former's behavior during some part of the public service. Or, An Attempt to Restore Scriptural Forms of Worship. To which is added A Second Dialogue Between Eugenius and Theophilus, on the Same Subject. (2nd ed., 1787) Reasons for Resigning the Rectory of Panton and Vicarage of Swinderby, in Lincolnshire; and Quitting the Church of England. (2nd ed., 1783) By William Frend (1757-1841): An Address to the Members of the Church of England, and to Protestant Trinitarians in General, Exhorting them to Turn from the False Worship of Three Persons, to the Worship of the One True God. (2nd ed., 1788) A Second Address to the Members of the Church of England, and to Protestant Trinitarians in General. (2nd ed., 1789) Appendix: bios of Disney and Frend.
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Print: $14.95 Download: $3.99 This volume in an unedited reprint of A Brief Declaration and Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity (1669), as reprinted in Volume II of The Works of John Owen, D.D. (ed. William H. Goold, Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1862)
John Owen (1616-1683) was an English Nonconformist divine. He was born at Stadham in Oxfordshire in 1616, and was educated at Queen's College, Oxford. (B.A. 1632, M.A. 1635) He served as chaplain to Oliver Cromwell, as a minister, and was prolific controversial and theological writer, famous for his attacks on Catholicism, unitarianism, and Arminianism.
Owen's massive refutation of unitarian ("Socinian") theology, Vindiciae Evangelicae, is available here.
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Print: $22.95 Download: $4.99 This is an unedited reprint of
Discourses on the Divine Unity; or, A Scriptural Proof and Demonstration of the One Supreme Deity, of the God and Father of All; and of the Subordinate Character and Inferior Nature of Our Lord Jesus Christ; with Confutation of the Doctrine of a Co-equal and Consubstantial Trinity in Unity; and a Full Reply to the Objections of Trinitarians.
By William Christie [(1748-1823)], Late a Member of the Society of Unitarian Christians, at Montrose[, Scotland]. The Third Edition (London, 1810). [First edition: 1784.]
Christie founded the first Unitarian congregation in Scotland in 1781, which lasted until 1792, when Christie abandoned the dwindling group. In 1795, following his friend Joseph Priestley, he emigrated to the United States.
Christie's later work, Dissertations on the Unity of God (1808), is available here.
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Print: $23.95 Download: $4.99 This is an unedited reprint of Dissertations on the Unity of God in the Person of God the Father. And on the Messiahship of Jesus the Son of God and of Mary; with Proofs and Illustrations from Holy Scripture and from Ecclesiastical Antiquity. (1808) by William Christie (1748-1823).
In 1810 in Philadelphia Christie published this volume, which derives from his sermons to his short-lived Glasgow congregation in 1794. He had presented them a second time in a series of lectures in Winchester, Virginia in 1799, and a third time in Philadelphia in 1807-8. Herein he expounds his mature theological views, interpreting all the relevant biblical texts.
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Print: $13.95 This volume is a reprint of a book first published in 1695. In it, John Smith enters the controversy raging in London (c. 1687-98) over the doctrine of the Trinity. "The following is a brief outline... There is one God, who is one in nature, essence, and person; and it is He only who is the Father of Jesus Christ. Christ is not the true God, because he himself has a God above him; because what he does is by a power received from God; and because God and he are plainly distinguished. The Scriptures represent Christ as a man..." - Robert Wallace, in "Historical Sketch of the Trinitarian Controversy from the Accession of William III to the Passing of the Blasphemy Act. No. V". Smith was swiftly pressured to recant. Excerpts from a 1829 periodical and from volume III of Wallace's Antitrinitarian Biography are included here. They tell the story of Smith's persecution, and relate other facts about his life and writings.
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