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\ yy an ineffable generation , who has all perfection and all ch >* minion from God his Father , and who has constituted him Mediator , Saviour , Governor , and Judge * But if you still think your notion ( if indeed it be your ' s ) of two Persons , who are both God supreme , the Scripture one , I shall be glad to see you , or any man , clear it from those visibly contradictions and absurdities , with which , in my apprehension , it is loaden : and set it out of the reach of the Deists ; who , I fear , will draw thence a stronger objection to the divine original of Christianity * than you or I shall be able to answer . And if the study of the word of God ( as you justly observe *) f in particular of the New Testament , is a proper means to stop
me progress or innaeuty , ning can more recommend the New Testament , as writings divinely inspired , or better vindicatethe doctrines there delivered , than shewing them all to be consistent with the principles of natural religion , and worthy of pod . But the doctrine of the son of God ' s being equal to , or co-drdinate with the . Father , or that he is God Supreme ( that is really , not the Son of the Supreme God , but the Father
of Him , whom the Scripture calleth the Son of God ) , is so far from being consistent with , that it is entirely subversive of the first and greatest principle of religion , and must be an insuperable stumbling block to the Deists . You see I pass over the criticism of the Article , as beino- a
trifle , compared with other substantial arguments , the force of which I am almost tempted to believe you saw , even when you wrote this note j in regard , in the latter part of this same note , where you seem in a very solemn manner to declare your faith in this doctrine , from a deep sense of the matter , and even from the obligations of conscience \ yet you express your faith , in terms not only general and lax , but in terms any man may use , who yet does not believe a word of the supreme , unoriginated , independent deity of the Son" of God , his equality , and co-ordination with the Father ; for the doctrine is expressed $ > nly . by Christ ' s deity , or that he is God . Whereas , after a profession of so much sincerity and seriousness , I should have expected more plain dealing with God ' s word and your numerous readers , and that your faith would have been declared , in
terms less ambiguous and equivocal . I maybe too censorious , if I even suspect , that in complaisance to a papty , you have trimmed it a little with the Gospel of Christ . But I can ' t forbear saying , that nothing of this najtiire— -no , not the shadow of corrupting the word of God should come from a Doctor of Divinity , who having ( as he " *¦ Pref . p . i ,
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Rev . S . Bournd and Dr . Doddridge . 295
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1806, page 295, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1725/page/15/
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