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* al understanding , and plain common sense ! AH difficulties are made easy , and all mysteries intelligible . To cammdn readers , most of the discourses in the gospel of John appeir ttoysti caJ , and req uire m uch patient at tention to make them intelligible .
The author remarks I p . 23 )— < c It is well known to Mr . Bel ^ harn and his Unitarian brethren , that divine revelation declares * in the most plain and intelligible mannet 6 , that Jesus Christ < jarpe down from heaven / ' But though we do know that Christ is said to have come down from heaven , we do not regard this
figiir&tive expression , as *< plain and intelligible " to prejudiced and unreflecting minds . They immediately conclude that Christ descended from a local heaven ^ whereas the meaning is ^ that be came possessed of divine authorit }' , and with a divine commission * In Lukexx * 4 . the baptism of John is indirectly asserted to have come from tieaven : but does anv one conclude that it
ever locally existed in heaven ? No more did Chrtet . But as the expression , when applied to John ' s baptism , signifies that this rite was administered by a divine ^ authority , so when applied to Christy it signifies nothing more ^ than that he acted under a divine commission .
Having thus shewn that Unitarianism is still alive , notwithstanding its late complete refutation , I take leave of my worthy antagonist ^ wishing that when he draws his pen another time , it may be in a better cause , and with better success . If it be consistent with the plan of your publication to admit the above remarks , the insertion of them will oblige , Sir ^ Your obedient servant , Hackney * Nov . 14 ^ 1806 . Thos . Belsham *
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KEMARKS ON UNITARIAN MINISTERS IN A TRINITARIAN CHUJLCttl OCCASIONED BY STONE ' S VISITATlON-SEKMON ^ To the Editor of the Monthly Bepositori / . Sir ,
LooKiNfe into your Repository for September , I was attracted to the review of a sermon , preached and published by # beneficed clergyman of the Church of England , with the express design ot opposing the creeds and articles of that church to which he had * subscribed and declared " his ^ assent aad consent" ex * animo . " '
1 kxiow not how other Unitarians may be affected on such an occasion . For one ^ I confess that I read the sermon which you have , reviewed with mingled sentiments of regret and ap p robation , A clergyman who has the courage to burst his fetters *
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ZTnitanan Ministers in a Trinitarian Church * S 9 t
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1806, page 591, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1730/page/31/
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