I observe here, once for all, that no proof, not even miracles, can be sufficient to establish the doctrine of the Trinity; that no evidence can be sufficient to prove that he who was born of a woman, nursed, and brought up to manhood, and who died on the Cross at the age of about 33 years, was the one self-existent Jehovah, our Creator and Supreme God. Christians ought not to believe this on any evidence. An impossibility admits not of proof, is not to be credited, and I take this to be one. It is impossible that the eternal self-existent Jehovah, the maker and preserver of all things, should be born of one of his creatures; that he whom the heaven of heavens cannot contain, whose presence fills heaven and earth, was deposited in a manger, rocked in a cradle, and would have perished, an helpless puling infant, but for the support of his nurse—was hungry, faint, weary, whipped, spit upon, and put to a cruel death by Roman Soldiers; this is impossible; and, therefore, no evidence can prove it true—we ought to look for none, and shut our ears when men talk so profanely as they must, who would support the Trinity. And may God, our Heavenly Father, adored through all worlds, preserve us from being left to believe in the human doctrine of a Trinity; may his grace keep us from from falling into such an error, and preserve us from the awful darkness of the reigning orthodoxy. We believe in the living God who never was dead, who cannot die.
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