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Son of man / ( Jolin v . 27 . ) The apostles are also described as liis coadjutors upon this solemn occasion ( Matt . xix . 28 ) : * When the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory , ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel * And the apostle Paul appeals k
to the Corinthians , ( 1 Cor . vi 2 , ) Know ye not that tlie saints shall judge the world ?* The import of this prophetic language it is perhaps impossible for us fully to comprehend , and is such as nothing but the awful reality can explain . It is evident , however , that whatever is signified by * judging * the world , ' it means nothing more tiiun what a man may by divine appointment and energy be qualified to perform ; and that the apostles and even Christians in general are to be associated with Jesus upon the grand occasion . And this consideration allows room for the
conjecture , that possibly no personal interposition even of Jesus himself may be intended But as prophets are said to perform what they only predict , ( see Jer . i , 10 , ) so Jesus may he said to judge the -world , because he has solemnly and
authoritatively announced that God will judge it : and apostles and saints may be said to be associated with him in this high office , because the apostles , by authority from Christ himself , and believers in ail ages bj their doctrine and example , bear their
solemn and united testimony to this grand consummation of the divine government . But it becomes us not to be dogmatical on so mysterious a subject , but rather to be mindful of our own important duty , to give all diligence to be found of our Judge in psace . ' —Pp . -54 , 55 .
Dr . Moysey gives himself up , bound hand and foot , to his ever-watchful opponent , when he asserts ( singular assertion !) that the Unitarians ** array H few selected and mutilated passages against the general and harmonious evidence of the whole gospel : "
€ C Yes , Dr . Moysey , tbey do selecty and Xhe ^ r do array , the whole Gospel of Matthew , and the whole Gospel of Mark , and the whole Gospel of Luke , and the whole history of tbe Acts , and the whole of the two Epistles to the Corinthians , and the whole 'E pistle to tbe Galatians , and the
whole Epistle to the Ephesians , and the two Epistles to the Thessalonians , and tbe two Epistles to Timothy , ( notwithstanding * the spurious , reading * i God manifest in ijup flesh /) and the whole Epistle to Titus
and to Philefoon , and the whole Epistle of James , and the two Epistles of Peter , and the whole of the three Epistles of John , ( notwithstanding tbe notorious and abominable interpolation of the heavenly wit-<»«« ses , ) and finally , the whole Epistle of
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Jiide 5—these insulated and detctchedhooki the Unitarians do select and do array : and they challenge their Trinitarian brethren to produce a single passage , from beginrung to end , in any one of them , which contains any thing- like the doctrine of a Trinity of persons in a unity of essence . And against what do they select and array these sacred writings ?—Against the rest of the books of the New Testament ? No , no ! very , very far from it . They select and array them against the misconception and misinterpretation of a few passages in
the Gospel of John , who is a very mystical and figurative writer 5 against a difficult passage or two in the Epistle to tbe Romans ; against the obscurity of some rhetorical passages in the Epistles to tbe
Philippians and Colossians 5 against tbe fanciful and misunderstood analogies of the unknown writer to the Hebrew ' s \ and against the difficulties occurring in the prophetic language of the Apocalypse . But of each of these books by far the
greater portion speaks the purest Unitarianism . The doctrine of the Trinity derives no countenance from a single sentence through the whole New Testament ; and that of the deity of Christ derives its support from a small number of mistaken
and tins interpreted texts 5 while that of the proper unity of God , in person as well as in essence , and that of the simple humanity of Jesus Christ , shine forth with a resplendence that he who runs may read . "—Pp . 60 , 61 .
There is no little meaning in the fojlowing * reply to the wantou , virulent charge of audacity and fraud , preferred against the Editors of the Improved Version : 1 And what motive ca » reasonably be assigned to these abused and calumniated
Editors , which could induce them to act so base and foolish a part ? Men do no , t usually act without a sufficient reason 5 and where the crime is great the temptation is proportionable . If indeed mitres and crosiers had danced before tbe eyes of these reprobated Editors > if deaneries and
bishoprics bad awaited them as the prize of their laborious and iniquitous exertions to support a tottering 1 and unrighteous cause , frail human nature might possibly have given way . They might have been induced to falsify and prevaricate , and against their better knowledge they might have been led to . pervert and to corrupt
the word of God' : —they might have been tempted to tamper with tlie sacred text } and , in defiance of all evidence , to retain notorious interpolations as genuine readings , in order to impose upon the ignorant , and to support popular and established errors : —they might eagerly have contended for gross Mistranslations which tbey
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< £ > 8 Review *—Behkam ' s 1 Reply to Dr . Moysey .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1819, page 498, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1775/page/38/
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