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« f c Go ye , therefore * and teach all nations , baptizing them in the name of the . Father , a id of the Son , and of the Holy Ghost . ' u And he declares the distinct personality of the Holy Ghost , by promising to send him as
" * Another Comforter . i 6 A ad by saying * , " * The C mforter , which is the Holy Ghost , whom the Father will send in my name , lie shall teach you all tiling's , and bring all things to your remembrance , whatsoever I have said unto you . * 6 i In declining , therefoie , ( which I now do with unfeigned regret , ) to act upon your committee , and in withdrawing
myself from the Library , I solemnly declare that I would not have adopted these measures , if I did not consider them as indis-| ieusab } y requisite to the maintenance of that veneration which I owe to my Redeemer , and to the . Holy Spirit of God , as well as to the Father ; , to one holy and undivided Trinity . Deeming it , also ,
peculiarly incumbent upon me , in the relation I bear to many of the members of this institution , and in the regard which I feel for the welfare of all , thus explicitly to declare my sentiments , " I am , Gentlemen , " With my best wishes , &c . " ROBERT GRAY . u Rector ?/ , Bishop- Wearrtiouth ^ kth Feb . 1819 . "
On which the following Remarks tiav 6 been published : u Remarks on the Rev . Dr . Gray ^ s Protest on the subject of the Tablet in
Memory of Mr . G . W . Meadley . u To the Subscribers to the Snnderland Library . Qi Gentlemen , u Although the Tablet which has been the unfortunate cause of so much angry and unchristian debate expressly guards
against the most remote allusion to either the religion or politics of the late Mr . against the most remote allusion to either the religion or politics of the late Mr . Meadley , yet since the Rev . Dr . Gray has been pleased to place in an equally conspicuous station his solemn Protest against it , on the ground , c that the deceased has
published opinions which are in direct opposition to what our Saviour has plainly tAuglit , ' it becomes the duty of some of Mr . M . ' s friends to repeat the creed which he has explicitly given as his own , and Tfchich all who knew his strict integrity , ^ rfll not doubt to have been actually his , in p . 12 of his Letter to the Bishop of St .
, fiavidV _*• * * m _ n _ . - ____ __ lWidV a ' The existence of one God , by whom All things were created ; the Divine Mission , Death , and consequent Resurrection < tf Christ t the I > ivin < & Authority of hi *
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Precepts , revealed in the Gospel } and the hope of Immortality in the Resurrection erf the Dead , " It is true he states , in the same l * etter 9 pp . 10 and 12 , that ' the separate exist * ence and divinity of Three Persons in One God , ' does not appear to him to he explicitly revealed in Scripture ; and that he believes in the atonement only as signifying the means and method of reconciliation of mankind to God through faith in . Christ and obedience to his precepts . But these 4 opinions , he would have been well able to shew ^ are by no means 'in direct opposition' to the texts which Dr . Gray has quoted , all of which he as firftily believed as the Doctor ; only he read them in connexion with the accompanying passages , aiid not in the insulated way in which the Doctor has given them to his readers .
" For / instance , lie believed as firmly as the Do 6 tor , that 4 Jesus and his Father are one , ' ( John x . 30 , ) not one and the same intelligent agent , but , t > ne in unity of design and purpose . This can surely be doubted by none who attentively consider the context . After having , in thfe former part of the chapter , likened himself
to a good shepherd , ready , in case of dan * , ger from robbers , to sacrifice even his life for his flock , he says , my Father , who gave me them , is greater than all and no man is able to pluck them out of my Ftt ± ther m s hand : I and my Father are one . ' The Jews , indeed , attending , like Dr . Gray , only to these last words i took «» stones to stone him , because he , being * a man , uiade himself God , Now , if this had really been his meaning , what would have been more natural for him than to admit the inference ? But instead of this * what
is his reply ? * fs it not written in your law , I have said , ye are gods ? ' * If those he called gods to whom the word of God came , say ye of him , whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world , ' thou l ) lasphemest , ' hecause he said , I am the Son of God ? ' If I do not the works of my Father , believe me not ; but if I do , though ye believe not me , believe the works , that ye may know and believe that the Father is in me , and I in him . ' But
as if with a view to render his meaning in these words perfectly clear , he explains it in the most solemn and interesting * manner in that inimitable prayer for his disciples , and for all his followers to the end of tbe world ( see John xvii . 11 and 20 ) : ' Holy Fat he r , keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me , that they
inay be one ^ as ive dte . Neither pray I for these alone , but for all those wh& shall believe on me through their word ; tfSkt they ail may be < me , as thOu , FAth ^ tttt in 771 *) < ind J ** * & ^* 9 thatOn £ t nil Aiay ie
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Proceedings at Sundetlaftd relating to Mr > Meadleys Monument . 285
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1819, page 283, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1772/page/3/
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