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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS.
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Miscellaneous Communications.
MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS .
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Without dwelling-oxi the absurdity of the suppositi&ii of Uvo natures so infinitel y dissimilar , as proper Deity and simple humanity , constituting one individual being ; or showing how the use made of the notion of two natures
in Christ , renders a great part of the New Testament Uinhtellfgjble , it is e ^ sy to show , that the ftiere idea of two natures by no means answers the purpose of its advocates , and that to maintain their xinscriptural opinions * they are .
necessitated to speak of each of the iratures as a real intelligent being , capable of distinct person ^ , } actions , in the one Christ ; by which , in reality , they make him two beiagsj persons , or intelligent ^ gejUs * Tlrey suppose that Christ in his
divine nature , or the divine nature iu him , spoke and acted distinct from , and independent ; of , his human nature , ; that . mainy things he said w ^ re si mply the language of , arid related to * his xlivine nature £ \ yfeiich evidently supposes fyis
divine nature to be a real lrHeJJfJgent , being , distinct fropa his humanity . Again 5 * they assert that he said some things simply as man , and which could be true only of his human nature : to be ingenuous , they should rather say of his
human person ; for they speak of his human nature as an intelligent person , and as , performing by it * self real personal actions ; and
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they adroit that bis human nature only suffered a # d died ; but his sufferings and death were the sufferings and death of a real being If Christ was one individual being or person , whatever he said or
djd must have been said an / j done by thaf onje individual being or person . if , -the % ! Trinitarians will bb ingenuous and explicit ^ they must drop tfie ambiguou *
phrase of two natures , and say ^ t once , what their reasoning . im « plies , and absolutely rsqvyres , that Christ is titfo persons , two in » dividual beings , possessed of as essentially different qualities ^ ad
ppyvers as D ^ ity humanity ; th ^ t t ^ se twp ; J >^ ings , though jLinitedj rq in ^ inef l distigjci , rgt $ . Joecl ^ U t | ieircji ^ inct qualitit ?^ , aq ^ i » . c ^ rtail ? ipstq . jn ^ es a ^ d se |>| r ^ ely ; that the oi > e kv&W vylmt th ^^ qther
was ignorant o £ , ' an ^ ' cpilH do yvb ^ t tW q ' th ^ r wa ^ ifi ^ pa ^ ble , of perfqripiAg J and tfeat t&e " one fiedi , VU % tfc ^ QtMr remtiw& iromprta ^ It xnay how ^ wi ^ ijp ^ vqtyc ? ihsm in so ^ e di ^ ujty to ftiftf fy how 9 i divine $ er $ Qtkbr bei ' ngr& )( f &hvm&n be $ <> k of beingp could both of thBhi fee Christ , and
yet there be but ojie Christ ; or or hpw the words an 4 works of both Could be tlie vmrdl and works fcff one anpinted person * as thfr word Christ signifies ^
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OK THE KOTION OF TWO NATURES' T& CHRIST .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1809, page 660, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1743/page/10/
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