“The question concerning the divinity of our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST has in all ages of the church, since the times of ARIUS and the Council of Nice, divided the opinions of professing Christians. By far the majority of these, whether as Catholics or as Protestants, have adopted the idea of a Trinity of divine persons in the Godhead, all existing from eternity, but (what is singular enough) never once heard of, either among Jews or Christians, until some hundred years had elapsed after Sacred Scriptures were written and published. The first rank they call the Father, the second the Son, and the third the Holy Ghost. By the Son, whom they suppose to have existed from eternity, in common with the other two persons, they understand JESUS CHRIST, not indeed as to his human nature, for this they allow to have been born in time, but only as to his divine nature, which they consider to be as complete a person in itself, as the divine nature of either the Father or the Holy Ghost. But it is observable, that, besides the divine person of the Son, which they say existed from eternity, they give to JESUS another person, which was born in time, and is merely human. And these two persons, the human and the divine, they actually separate the one from the other, placing the divine not within the human, but out of and above it. And thus they first of all divide their God into three parts called persons, and then, in order to make a SAVIOUR of the second part or person, they provide for him another additional person, consisting of mere flesh and blood . . .”

(Robert Hindmarsh, A Seal Upon The Lips of Unitarians, Trinitarians, And all others who refuse to acknowledge The Sole, Supreme, And Exclusive Divinity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Manchester: F. Davis, 1816-1860, from Preface, 37-38)

“ . . . we undertake to oppose and refute the sentiments of Unitarians of each class, and also of Trinitarians of every description, whether they be of the Romish or the Protestant persuasion, of the established or non-established churches, on the subject of the divinity of our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST: for as they are all agreed in refusing to acknowledge his exclusive title to the sovereinty and dominion of the universe, we are under the necessity of ranking them all together as in some sort united, and ‘taking counsel together against the LORD, and against HIS ANOINTED,’ Ps. ii. 2. But we trust we shall be enabled to ‘break their bands asunder, and to cast away their cords from us,’ ver. 3. In other words, we hope it will be made to appear, that neither the Unitarian nor the Trinitarian is in possession of the genuine truth, relative to the person and character of JESUS CHRIST; but that, while the former regards him as a mere man, or a mere creature even of super-angelic order; and while the latter, allowing him in common with two other persons some portion of divinity, yet carefully separates even this small pittance from his humanity, and thus puts asunder what God has irreversibly and eternally united; the Sacred Scriptures give full and unceasing testimony to the sole and exclusive divinity of our blessed Lord, whom they equally characterize, both in the Old and in the New Testament, as the only Father and Creator of the universe, the only Redeemer and Saviour of the world, and the only Regenerator and Comforter of his people.”

(Robert Hindmarsh, A Seal Upon The Lips of Unitarians, Trinitarians, And all others who refuse to acknowledge The Sole, Supreme, And Exclusive Divinity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Manchester: F. Davis, 1816-1860, from Preface, 43-44)