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The Trinity is, 1. the Will; 2. the Reason, or Word; 3. the Love, or Life. / As we distinguish these three, so we must unite them in one God. The union / must be as transcendant as the distinction.
Mr. Irving's notion is tritheism, -- nay, rather in terms, tri-daemonism. His / opinion about the sinfulness of the humanity of our Lord is absurd, if / considered in one point of view; for body is not carcass. How can there be / a sinful carcass? But what he says is capable of a sounder interpretation. / Irving caught many things from me; but he would never attend to any thing / which he thought he could not use in the pulpit. I told him the certain / consequence would be, that he would fall into grievous errors. Sometimes he / has five or six pages together of the purest eloquence, and then an / outbreak of almost madman's babble.[1]