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is of iniporlancc to know k > that more than lialf tifee Christian world may he no lorigjer jjfoss idolaters , forcer * tainly it is " gross idolatry to worship Jesus Christ and adore him as our God , if he be only a man like ourselves * X c&afessf
have been a worshipper of Jesus Christy a& truly and properly God , for rtiore than forty years , but should it turn out that the God 1 adore is but a man like tErjrselfj it is more than
time for me to relinquish my idolatry atod ^ to commence the worshipper of the true God . Therefore the subjfect is of high importance . " All this is very just : and after this voluntary concession on the part of a sincere worshipper of Ghrist ^ let
not Unitarians be charged with bigotry ^ for representing the worship of Christ as idolatrous , and for endeavouring to cbii- * vince their Trinitarian brethren of the great and glaring error of their conduct : while at the same time they are careful to abstain from charging them with the guilt of idplatry ; as it is impossible for them to know how far it was in the power of
these Christian idolaters to have avoided their gross errors , of Bow far it may even now be in their power to emancipate themselves from the yoke of early and inveterate prejudice . 4 . In the discourse which is the subject of this gentleman * *
animadversions , I have stated ( p . 1 2 )* ** that it is perfectly rational , simple , and credible , and a dispensation altogether Worthy of the Supreme Beings that a human , being should be selected froni the mass of mankind , to recover his offending
brethren to the knowledge of God , and truth , and duty , and ta confirm and exemplify the doctrine of a future immortal exist * ence , by his own resurrection from the grave ; and that this is a system which a man of understanding and reflection may admit and avow without a blush . " My opponent candidly acknowledges ( p . 11 ) , that <* if this is all that Jesus Christ came £ o do * I do not see why a h ^ uman beings like ourselves * might
riot , under divine instruction ^ , accomplish the whole of it . In this concession I acquiesce . But the author tells us , that C € he believes most firmly that Jesus Christ did accomplish 4 vast deal more than this . "' And if he really imagines that Jesus Christ came to do more than any human bemg , th&ugU divinely instructed and supported , could accomplish , he act *
consistently in believing Christ to be more than a humanT > eing . But what the reverend author mean $ ( p . 16 ) by " subduing the hells / ' or ( p . 28 ) by ** Chmt ^ s holding the heHs m subjection to himself , ' which he enumerates amongst the achievements of the Messiah ^ 1 am at nloss even to guess . I suppose if is a secret known only to those who are " ic enJightened oy the rays of spiritual lights" This gentleman actually blushes * and deeply
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5 SS Hein&rKs on Mr . WroutPs Pamphlet .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1806, page 588, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1730/page/28/
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