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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository *
Ousestrandj k sJf ^ April 8 , 18 © 9-' 1 / know of no method of decidijSg on controverted points in religion , so well adapted to the common sense and common
leisure of mankind ^ immediate reference to the great leading facts , and simple doctrines of Divine Revelation , which all Christians believe and profess . To
-this test I would bring every point in the Trinitarian , controversy . Having already . noticed the unity of'God , I will next consider the person of Jesus Christ .
Trinitarians admit that Jesus was tbe Christ , the son of God ; that he was really a man , and the ; son of man ; thathe actually died , was buxied , and raised from the dead ; that there was a sense in
which he did not know every thing that God knew , could of his own self do nothing , and in which he declared himself to be inferior to the Father ; that he worshipped and obeyed God , as his God and
Father : All these things Trinitarians admit ; indeed they are so plainly recorded in the New Testament , that no man can believe the gospels to contain a
literal history without admitting them . These facts which compel the universal assent of Christians ^ are sufficient to support the views en . tertained of the person of Christ by Unitarians ; and to refute their opponents , they have only to shew
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that what Trinitarians admit , as indubitable , is fatal to the notion of his proper Deity . As the word Christ means one anointed , the person of Christ , or the person anointed , cannot be God , for who
could anoint God , either literally or figuratively ; or * give a divine mission to him , and qualify him to execute it ; or appoint his work or high destination ? A son must be an individual being , distinct from his father . Personal
identity destroys the idea of fraternity and filiation , in Deity ; and a plurality of divine persons subverts the doctrine of one undivid - ed God . Either Christ is a being distinct from the Father , and
consequently not God , or he is the same being who is called the Father , and consequently not the Son of God ; or the absurdity must be admitted that he is a son
to himself , and a father to himself ; for on all side > it is acknowledged that there is but one Qod . To say that a being who died , was buried , and raised from the dead , is properly God is , in fact , the same , things as to say , God died , was buried , and raised from the dead . As Trinitarians are
compelled to admit , that Christ actually died , was buried , and declared " to be the son of God by his resurrection from the dead , to act consistently they ought cither at once to say that the immortal God died , that the immutable
Jeho-? For Letter I . see M * * Repos . for March , p « 125 .
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fJNTTAltrAtflSM PROVED , ANt > THI 7 VITA RIA NISM REFUTED , BY WHAT TRINITARIANS THEMSELVES ADMIT . LETTJER II * .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1809, page 312, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1737/page/10/
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