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to be wise, they become fools, and change the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, birds, beasts, and creeping things, Rom. i. 21-23. "To whom then will ye liken God, or what likeness will ye compare unto him?" I further knew that a trinity in unity was far enough above the rules of arithmetic; that immensity was too vast for a vain imagination either to explore or contract. And, as Christ ascended that he might fill all things, no gross image is to be made of him who is the image of the invisible God. Hence the three-one Jehovah, the eternal and invisible God, is out of the reach of the poor short-sighted light of nature, and can never be known but in his own glorious rays, as it is written, "In thy light we see light."

Under these workings of Satan, concerning the Trinity, I lay confused and confounded for a considerable time; but confession and prayer, reading and meditation, were kept up day and night; and, after having been thus exercised for three years, the ever-blessed God appeared, and sweetly delivered me from all my idols, and from all my filthiness he cleansed me; since which sore conflict neither the devil, the Arian, Socinian, or Sabellian, have ever been able to move me; for Butler, the worst of all snares to me, who is mentioned in several of my books, was led to set up these three dolls in his brains in imitation of the Trinity; and, as he could not make one to be three, and three one, he denied the personality both of the Father

and of the Holy Ghost; and, being wonderfully established in this lie, he held it fast, and refused to let it go. Resisting the apostles, who had so strenuously asserted a plurality of persons, he held fast only the scriptures that expressed the unity, and construed the others to be the effects of the apostles' ignorance and blindness. And he affirmed that the future glorious light which is expected would deliver the saints from the ignorance that lay under their vail. In this he was fixed, and in this he exulted and triumphed, for, I believe, near or quite ten years; yea, and this he circulated privately, to all that he could, and then began to preach it openly, which cost me many sighs, groans, and tears. But, soon after I had disputed with him, and written to him on the subject, the fiery trial seized him, when the little imaginary god in human shape that he had exalted in his vain imagination, and which he called his God and Saviour, stood him in no stead; for, in that perilous hour, down he sunk into the dark regions of black despair, where he has lain these ten years, and from whence it is to be feared he will never come out; nor is it likely he should, seeing he held fast what God calls a damnable heresy.

Reader, many are the passages of holy writ that have puzzled and perplexed me in the course of my pilgrimage, most of which my most gracious God and Father hath, at different times, opened and explained to me, some few whereof are han

dled in this work, and perhaps the rest may come after. That God may bless the attempt of his servant to the good of thy soul is the prayer and desire of,

Dear Reader,

Church Street, Paddington,

March 1, 1796,

The chiefest of sinners,

W. H.

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