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is supported by the connexion in which the assertion stands . c God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the HoJy Ghost and with power ; who went about doing goody and healing all that were oppressed with the devil , for God was with him ? That is , God was with him by that divine power which he communicated to him , and
by which he performed ail those mighty works which proved that he was sent of God . tt was by the finger or power of God that Jesus cast out demons . It was the Father who
dwelt in him who did the works ; and hence he acknowledged that of his own self he could do nothing . But if Jesus possessed a divine nature of his own , all the works which he did he could have done as well without the Father as with him . ** Another query , which I would propose , is suggested by the following passage of Scripture , Luke xxii . 43 : And there appeared unto him ( Jesus ) an angel from heaven strengthening him . '' Now my query is , If Jesus
were a compound being , that is , both God and man in one person , what strength could an angel from heaven , or even a host of angels , communicate to such a being ? Could an angel , or ten thousand times ten thousand
angels , give strength to him , by whose power , and for whose pleasure , all things are and were created ? Such an idea , surely , can never enter into the mind of a rational being . " If it should be said that the angel was sent from heaven to strengthen
not his divine , but his human nature , I would ask , Did the divine nature forsake the human in the time of distress ? If tins was actually the case , what shall we say then with respect to the dignity , the infinite dignity ' , of the sufferer , an expression frequently used by reputed orthodox teachers ? If the divine nature of Christ did not , and could not , suffer , ( and this even Trinitarians will allow , ) then the sufferings of v Christ were the sufferings of a nirre man ; and if the divine nature did nut forsake the human , but supported it under all its . sufferings , then my query , us stated above , remains in all its force ; namely , what strength could an angel communicate to a being who is both God and man in one person ? Hoping " , Rev . Sir , that you will
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take these queries into your serious consideration , that you will take notice of them in the coarse of your monthly evening lectures , and thai you will excuse my freedom , " I am , Rev . Sir , " Your sincere well wisher , " JOHN MALCOM . « February 19 , 1813 . "
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Litton , near Dorchester ^ Sir , January 21 , IS 19 . FEW days ago , I met with A the following Epistle , addressed to Dr . Priestley , published in the Monthly Miscellany for July 1774 . From the style I am inclined to ascribe it to the pen of the late Dr . Geddes
if so , it is another proof of the congeniality that exists between reputed heterodoxy and liberality of sentiment . Scarcely any age before has produced two such celebrated archheretics , so widely different in their religious opinions , and yet so cordially
united m friendship as those eminent Roman and Protestant divine ^ . There is not , perhaps , much poetical beauty to recommend it to attention , yet this deficiency is , in some measure ,
compensated by the lively imagination that conceived it , and by the candid spirit in which it is written . If you can afford room for it , it may possibly afford to some of your readers as much amusement as it has to J . R . SEAWARD . An Epistle to Dr . Priestley , in imitation of Horace ' s " Integer Vitce , " Sec .
The man whose nobler heart disdains A sordid education ' s chains , And free from superstition ' s load Obeys , and still enjoys his God , Needs neither popes' nor bishops * blessing To fix that faith his heart has vest in , And asks Divinity alone To teach him what to do or shun .
Whether abroad the ample page Of public life his thoughts engage , Or social duties ask his care , Or meag're want prefers its prayer , Or deep distress with downcast eyes ,
Or guilt as low in dust it lies , "Excite tlie pity of his breast ; ¦ Through a // , with heaven and loveposs € st r He acts the part his God design'd , And shews his image on his mind . As late I took the ev e ning air , And meditation sooth'd my care ,
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42 & Poetical Epistle to Dr . Priestley .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1819, page 422, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1774/page/22/
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