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«* Of the jirsi of these laborious expositions , it must be remarked , that if the Father be at one time the Father only , and at another time the Son also , it never can be distinguished wheft he is the Father and when not , or how lie is the r 7 Father at all . If the one person be also the three persons , or the three persons the * ne ; the Father Ike Son , the Son the Father , the Spirit eiiber or all ; the persons are confounded , and the c undoubted penalty incurred , of 6 perishing- everlastingly . ' " The second exposition , which makes the Father and Jesus Christ the only true God , absolutely ( excludes the Hoty Ghost from-being , the true God , and is equally in jeopardy of everlasting destruction : for
the Cteed ^ which is made the rule , of salvation in place of Scripture , says , that the Holy Ghost is God , no ( ess than the Son is God , and the Father is God ; each God by himself , and all three one numerical God . So that while the Father is not the only
true God , bat Jesus Christ is also the only true God , tliere is yet another only true God , the Holy Ghost . "—Pp . 86 , S 7 . The same mode of argument is observed in the short remarks on Mark
xiii . $ Q : ** Of that day and hour [ the time of the destruction of Jerusalem ] knovveth no man ; do , not the angels which are in heaven , neither the Son , but the Father . "
u This passage , which , by disproving * the omniscience of Jesus , disproves his deity , has been subjected to three different experiments : 1 . The words neither the Son must have been interpolated by the Arians . 2 . Jesus did not know * it in his
human nature but one of ttie Councils anathematized those who should deny that he knew it in liis divine nature } that is , he both knew it and he knew it not . 3 . It is only a mode of speech , imp ! ving" that
he had not the communicable knowledge of it ; that he did not know it , so as that others may know it also . Such -are ( he men who charge the ' worshipers of the Father * with torturing * texts , and puttingsense to the rack ! " —Pp . , 94 .
We must here pause for the present month , but we hope to resume our extracts ; being persuaded that , with regard to a volume of such intrinsic value , tiiis is the best way to fulfil our design of recommending it strongly to our readers .
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Legislature , By a Friend to a more comprehensive Liturgy , 8 vo . pp . 83 . T . and J . A-Ilman , 1819-WHOEVER reflects on the . inquiring spirit of the age , and on the extensive and increasing defection from the precincts of orthodoxy , must wonder at the pertinacity with which the National Church
adheres } to the most palpab ' e absurdities of its ritual , th «_ most obvious inconsistencies of its numerous creeds-Such , indeed , is the anxiety to uphold and defend certain mysterious doctrines , that , there is no shorter or
more certain way of arriving at the dignities and emoluments of the Establishment , tlvm by engaging in their defence ; and by labouring to clothe them in a dress ,. in which they naay be exposed , with some degree of
safety , to the scrutinizing examination of this en lightened generation . It must be gratifying to I he Unitarian to observe that , in this undertaking , every exertion is used , every species of sophistry is employed to force the Athanasian scheme into as near a
resemblance as possible to Unitarianism . For happy does that polemical wight esteem himself , who , by some new and plausible turn of language , thinks he has proved to the satisfaction of his courteous reader , that the
doctrine of a Trinity in Unity is not absolutely absurd . Meantime , numerous appeals to the common sense of the community issue from the press in rapid succession , and afford
incontrovertible proof that the time is at hand , when the last mists of superstition will be chased from our religious atmosphere by the strong light of the increasing dav .
In . the pamphlet that now lies before us we have some sensible strictures on the incongruities and contradictions of the three creeds , that are incorporated in the worship of the Established Church :
" In the creed which is catted the Apostles ' , ' Jesus Christ is ?» aid tt > have been * conceived by the Holy Ghost ;* or , in other words , to have proceeded from the Holy Ghost ; but in the Nieetie Creed , thtf
Holy Ghost is said to have proceeded from Jesus ; while the Athaiiusian Creed contradicts both , and snys , that the ' Son is uncreate , * ' and the Holy Ghost uncreaVe ^ The Apostles 11 Creed makes the Son po * u tenor to the Father , but prior to the Holy
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Review . —The Essentials of a National Church briefly explained . 435
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A rt , II . —The J ^ ssentia ls of a National Church briefly explained ^ scripturally enforced and humbly recommended to the consideration of the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1819, page 435, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1774/page/35/
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