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H . M » is an advocate for the literal interpretation of the scrip , tures ; < anc | % so must every lover of ifyepi be , when they are not
made by it to * contradict themselves , or common sen ? e . When our Jgr ^ nt teacher says , " Of mine 'jbwn 4 "f . T can do nothing , " My rJFarfeeir is greater that 1 , " 6 C All power is given unto me , ' * 4 < As
ithe Father hath life in himself , so " haih he given to the Son to fc ave ?)! fe rft'hira&fetf , '' " I have not p ~ j " ij » j ' ) i ¦ ' ' - iff spoken of mysetr , but the Father inlitC setfl itie ; he' gave me a
commandrnent what I should say , and what | should speak : whatsoever ^ sglipB : therefore , even as the Kthers ^ tf unto me / ' so I speak : ' *
, Wheti we read thieve plain and strong clecl&fafcions , and many ^ D ^ rtf equally so may be £ iteds cow pan we d p / otherwise than liieifelfjf believe them , andacknow-^ dg ^ t ^ a t t ^ e power of Christ was ) t d € ifi ^ ed ] gower " ; that he ^ cam e $$ d the worldto do ttie will of iliil ¦ ¦ 4 ' ¦ ¦ ' ¦
^ j ' i * : • __ . * - . - . Htm that setft turn : ** and when | h a st > lehin prayer to his heavenly fether ^ ** * he" says , 4 * * ft > is is life pihil t io knptv Thee the only tjrue < 3 rod ^ and Jesus Christ whom tll ^^ 4 iH t ist Sent /* upon what ground Sefrn , we refuse our assent ? What
£ &rtof the sacred book tells us , || # t tbougli Ipe \ ya ? the Infinite llte ^ ab , J ? e bould with truth de ^ P | b ^ himself as a ' man gifted and Ifcied ;^ y '' -him t And if this Jf ra ^ hae doctrine canftot be clear * lyl ^ ilf ^ dj out ^ y hov& nfe : we ; aul ^ orWd tt > Im ^ ii te sii jcit ^ e ^ Cical m $£ hfi& i 6 Mtt whtt Virat ;»| fttplu
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ment ;* ' my reason tells me that he speaks figuratively ; though such plain expressions , recorded by three evangelists in exactly the same terms , appear to me to give more colour to the strange doctrine of transubstantiation ,
than any thing that can be produced in favour of the Trinity , and the former only requires a continued miracle , while the latter includes an impossibility . One text more out of very many that I could mention ; " I and
my Father are one / ' This would certainly have been the strong hold of Trinitarians , as proving the mystical union for which they contend , if our Lord had not in a following discourse , used the
same mode of speaking with respect to himself and his disciples ; " At that day ye shall know that I am in the Father , and you in me and I in you ; " after this it was necessary to concede that oneness of mind , and not of essence , was intended .
There pppears to be little reason for inquiring why the term Father should be applied to the infinitely benevolent Author of all things ! We might indeed have feared to address the Omnipotent
under so endearing an appellation , but that we have been not only permitted , but directed so to do * Gad the Father isa scriptural expression , and one tfoat must bjp precious to e ^ ry 'heart ; but for God the Smi , and God tht Holy
Gkost ^ however familiar they may be to the eues and ear&pf ch ^ rchftien , thgjf qrenot to be found ill the sacred tyj ^ tmgs ; w 6 ich us
they mpfift allp . wogiv ^ a * strong grounds forj asserting , that t i ^ jr vtffefgpfe ^ pm ^ s $ * Am& Trinity , in the » ge « of ignorance
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1812, page 565, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1752/page/33/
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