From the Unitarian Chronicle 1832
The Bible is Unitarian throughout-anti-trinitarian in the beginning, anti-trinitarian in the middle, anti-trinitarian in the end. It knows as little of the doctrine as of the terms Trinity and Trinitarian, and that is nothing. But, it teaches that God is one person-one intelligent Being, the Creator and the Father of all. "This is life eternal, to know Thee the ONLY true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou bast sent." In all that was written by Moses and the Prophets, and taught by Christ and his Apostles, we can discover nothing of a Trinity-nothing of a Platonic, an Aristotelian, a Pythagorean, a Brahminical, a Runic, a Sabellian, a Swedenborgian Trinity; nor any of the threescore and ten Trinities which have claimed in turns the belief, and imposed on the credulity of mankind. Christianity repudiates the very name of Trinity as a heathen abomination, an insult to reason, a blasphemy against the most sublime truth of revelation. The Bible, I repeat, is essentially a Unitarian book; and if allowed to do its own work, and to go forth in its own simple majesty, without the deforming and distorting drapery in which priestcraft and bigotry would enfold it, it will Unitarianize the world. It has wrought and it is working marvellous conversions. Unitarians have no misgivings of mind as to the result. They are willing to cast their bread on the waters, assured that after many days they shall find it. They are willing that the good seed of the Word should be scattered, though by orthodox hands, for the Lord of the harvest will cause every seed, according to an invariable law of his providence, to produce after its kind, and therefore the crop must be UNITARIAN. It is from ignorance of the Bible, or from coming to its perusal with minds pre-occupied by anti-biblical notions, from blind attachment to antiquated creeds and nursery catechisms, from blind veneration for State religion and its forms established by human laws, that men are Trinitarians. Let them dare to emancipate their minds from the inglorious vassalage; let them assume courage to read the Sacred Volume with their own eyes, to judge by their own understandings; and the religious world will at last become truly Christian, and worship the Father "in spirit and in truth.”
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