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Your thesis and your defense of it would appear to be the same. That’s viscously circular.
Ron, no I am comprehending the plain meaning of words. Bob Letham argues that the CoR was at odds with orthodox Trinitarianism and to adopt it is to "open the door to heresy" (his words). He goes on to say, "the construal of the relations of the three persons of the Trinity in covenantal terms is a departure from classic Trinitarian orthodoxy. In two generations that was precisely what occurred in English Presbyterianism."
So, he argues that the CoR opened the door for heresy.
He also says that an anti-Trinitarian heresy occurred two generations later within English Presbyterianism (the heresy that occurred two generations later was Unitarianism).
How can we read him as saying anything else than the CoR caused Unitarianism? There is simply no fair way to read him as saying anything other than the CoR was partly responsible for the rise of Unitarianism within English Presbyterianism.