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Ambrose and Lactantius, 'Augustine's writings show how widely those questions were discussed.He had learnt much from the sublime Christian philosophy of his eminent instructors at Cambridge, Cudworth and Henry More, John Smith and Whichcote, under whom his pk hq forum heart and intellect had attained a far wider reach than they could ever have gained in the school of Calvin.As Leslie said, he did in effect explain the doctrine of the Trinity as three manifestations of the Divine nature.A charge was thereupon brought against him of authorising doubt and opening a door to the most radical pk hq forum disbelief.'This new doctrine,' says Leslie, 'of making hell precarious doth totally overthrow the doctrine of the satisfaction of Christ.Bishop Rust of Dromore, who died in pk hq forum 1670, ardently embraced Origen's view.' Of this particular inference, which would legitimately follow only upon a pk hq forum very restricted view of the meaning of atonement, there is no need of speaking.He wrote several times against the Unitarians, but gladly allowed that many of them were thoroughly good men, honest and candid in argument, nor did he even scruple to admit to a cordial friendship one of their most distinguished leaders, Thomas Firmin, a man of great beneficence and philanthropy.But in its general effect it tended greatly to depress the pk hq forum tone of theological thought, to take away from it sublimity and depth, and to degrade religion into a thing of earth.Two or three generations had to pass away before habits of thought engrained for ages in the popular mind were gradually effaced.Nor is it pk hq forum needed.The sacrificial character, he said, of the atonement was not to be explained in any one manner.