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530 Phrase *< Son of Goi^
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Mr. Govgh, The Antiquarian. Feb. 6, 1814...
desiring he w > u | cl desist . If he & tftiia ^ o ^ siife Ivould d efend Mr . WmM W Ket own expence in
eifery cHiiti U \ the kingdom . " Mr . G . Wys , le this circumstance sdved Kiln from the violence of the iigH . chundh sqtfire . '' It was the
fashion of thatd . ge for great ladies to fescue great heretics from the furjrof orthodojc persecution . Th us < Queen Anne had seasonably muz-^ led the convocation jtist as th ey had shewh their teeth and were
about to worry honest William Whistbb . Mr . Gough adds , concerning Daniel Whisttm , that cV he was offered several livings , but would not accept of any , . as he refused to subscribe to the use of the
Athaiiasian ^ Creed , " * a conduct which the leathed antiquary thus "unequiVocally commends . < c He thought , and justly too , that the admission of that creed into the
church is a disgrace to the service ? ' Mr . Nichols , in his Literary Anecdotes ( i . 505 ) , says , tfiat < 6 Daniel Whiston died April 19 , 1759 , a ^ d 82 /'
Mr . Oobgli , who died in 1809 , Wai ' s-, " in ^ 786 , and for some years after , the reviewer in the Gentleman ' s Magazine . It is well known with what hostility to reformers that Review . Was then conducted . Mr , Nichols ( Lit . An . vi . 272 ) admits that Mr . Gbush cl criticised
with warmth and severity certain innovations attempted ip " church and state , * ' though * ' h £ wrote his sentiments with sincerity and impartiality : " Who could have expecued to find Mr . Gough
himself such a danrig innovator as to iropugi * tfeat important ariicle in ** ' tlie church by law esiahlished /' Ahe C ^ ee J ^' of t ] £ ' Athanasius . ; ^ r OTldSUS , 1 * ' -
Mr. Govgh, The Antiquarian. Feb. 6, 1814...
Phrase" Son of God . " , : Sir ; ' - " ¦ . _ ' : ] , : *; Christians slitl " differ abbut the meaning erf the words , € < Jestis Christ the Son of God . " - Stftne
have explained the words to sigi nify that he is God of God , and very God of very God , Thdj ^ have therefore asserted that this
doctrine is fully implied in the phrase , ' * his only begotten Son / 1 Bui > , it should be reipemfceredjj that Iss |§ c is called , thfe oi ^ ly sbli of Abraham , Gen . xxii . % 12 , 16 ^
and the writer 6 f the epistle tb the Hebrews , adopting the scrip * tural languiage , says , that Abraham offered up his only begotten son . As Abraham then had se .
veral other sons , his only soil , and his only begotten son , must mean his dear and most beloved son ; in like manner , the opi y hegotten Son of God must me & ft his most beloved "Son in iJvnolrh
he was always well p leased , ^ j id whom , because of his exelrnpliify , singular righteousness , and h & tredt of iniquity , he has exalted above all principalities and ^ owefs , li is therefore said , that Goa ha ^
given him a name which is above every name , that at the name" ' ^ f Jesus every knee should bbvTbf things in heaven , and things 6 h ' earth , and things undet the eiirthj tha * t is , of all meti in ' a fMUffe
state , and of all the living Slid thfe dead in this world . But , by heaven here , we must not Understand the whole immense universe , (which the great God alolie can always comprehend andgoVern , whilst we humbly and ttiUnfcfutyy acknowledge , that Christ is ^ o ^ stitutecf the H ^ ad artd X-0 rd bt all
the children of men , I tifeeit for granted , that tfie passage if * Hebrews , LU ^ rB ^ aifg ^ l ^ oiGda
530 Phrase *< Son Of Goi^
530 Phrase *< Son of Goi ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1814, page 330, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02061814/page/10/
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