Ethan Smith

“ The ambassadors of Christ are never to attempt to render the doctrine of the Trinity, or any of the distinguishing doctrines of grace, platable to the carnal mind; lest they incur the charge of being men pleasers; but not the servants of Christ.
How great is the Saviour of the world! He is the mighty God;—mighty to save. How astonishing is the grace of heaven, the condescention of the high and lofty One! That such a Person should be sent, should come, on such an errand, be manifested in the flesh, and treated as Jesus was, is an infinite wonder! ”

“ Men need not feel as though it were so vast a crime to trample them under foot. Nor need they fear eternal damnation.
If men—denying the Trinity and the proper Divinity of Christ—are unwilling, through the impressions of a better education, to admit the above, and similar errors, as naturally resulting from their scheme;—yet it is believed that their followers, who will come forward destitute of their better impressions, and who will reason more correctly from their own premises, will admit and embrace these errors; and will deny the true scheme of the gospel. ”

“ When the wits of men have done their best upon this subject; and we see many strong men, of different schemes in it, have been in times past cast down wounded; shall we not, with adoring humility, submit to the divine interrogation, "Canst thou by searching, find out God?" May we not be convinced, that neither human philosophy, nor analogy, can afford much aid, relative to this mysterious doctrine? For probably nothing in creation resembles the Triune God. ”