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reflections too valuable to be confined to the shelf of a library , and I could not allow myself to prune or correct them . EF 1 SCOPUS .
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Question relating to the Holy Spirit . Mr * Editor , Will you favour me with a corner in your excellent miscellany for a question which I wish to
propose to your tnnitanan readers and correspondents , hoping that some one of them will esteem it worthy © f serious consideration . If the Holy Spirit is indeed an individual person distinct from the Father ; if he is according to the
orthodox creed , his equal ; or in other words , if he is the One
Jehovah ! u in whom we live and move , and h , ave our being !" ' ** For whom , and to whom , and through whom , are all things V
If he is the c < High and Lofty One , who inhabiteth eternity Y to whom all created beings owe their existence , and look £ or their future preservation !—and to be equal with the Father he must be all
this ; wfyy did Jesus Christ , who spent wjjiple night jn prayers to tpe Father , and ^ ev joutly addressed / iim on b , variety of recorded occasions , never offer u < p $ . single petition f to this equal in Omnipo tence , of give the sjigh ^ et hint
to m ? disciples to do sp ? , Why , by hh own uniform and most inexpressive eji a ^ p le , and by that mps % striking # * q < J . comprehensive form of wogrds which fate delivered
tf > ;| is , d < g * qs he exclusively feach m to pjr * y .. to \ h& Ifytheir , if ibwe » xe in-dee ^ th # eq persons Gqvally entitled to ouv worship stud adoration ?
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An answer to this question is earnestly requested by , Sir , Your constant reader M . H .
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Want of Candour towards Unbelievers . Sir , The exercise of > reason and lu .
berality , are , I think amongst the more conspicuous excellencies , by which that sect of Christians , called Unitarians , would be thought to distinguish themselves : and there
certainly can be no quality more calculated than these , 1 b win the affections , and to make a proselyte of the honest and amiable enquirer , who may be led to doubt the correctness of the doctrines
and principles , he has elsewhere acquired . Reason leads us to an acquaintance with the unlimited liberality ^ nd benevolence of the Deity towards all his creatures . This benevolence , or liberality , is noteless a celestial quality , than
is the infinite wisdom , or the boundless power of the Almighty , and being more attractive and lovely in the eyes of his creatures and dependents , it will ever be sought for by ingenuous minds , as the first feature in every system which claims the Father of all for
its author * ^ I have witnessed and have felt the . power of this supposed liberality , in a community which I have been induced to join , chktiy from a belief ( that it was more
largely endowed with this heavenl y attribute ithaji others ; I confess f think so still ; or I would insfanrly abandon its meetings , for the one most congenial to my sentiments in this respect . Vet I h-ave found limits to t ^ is virtue , not before observed by me , and it is on m
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% Question relating to the Holy Spirtt * 14 £
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1812, page 149, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1746/page/13/
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