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Jl . Y < & know that being innocent he could not be charged wit ^ pjtjiejrs guilt : to accept of him , therefore , as a substitute , ' in ybiir o wr ^ language , would be "to set reason and common sense , not to speak of law ari' 4 Ju' ^ icje * at utter defiance . " O . 1 see what misleads you . You speak of the death of Christ as if it had been a human transaction ; whereas we are to regard it as altogether divine and supernatural ; therefore reason and common sense and human
law and justice have nothing to do with it . A . No ! Are we to adopt Tertullian ' s creed and say , " Credo qwia impossibile" ? Are we to ascribe a li ^ y'bf procedure to & Almighty , at which even the human mind , when diVeSteo ! of prejudice , revolts , and spurns asabsurd ? ¦ >> .. ^ , v . ^ t ^ - ' ¦ < , «' -- »¦ ™ ^ - ^ ' ^ ^ f O . Your idea is fieitoiiewnbr # e 1 i-fbtindeS . iA " Sie days of S ^ feiit the very same subject was unto the Jews a stumbling-block , and unfb tjie Greeks fbblisiin ^ yianSyet ^ itdoiila ^ of the ppw ^ r ! / ?! :
andwisdomofG ^ d : ^ "; ' _ J ' ; e - ' ; '"" ; ' ' ' . . : [ A . But h <^ ajteifre fd iiidge of this , if you exclude reason and common sense > ¦ "' " ' -i- ^ - * - ' v y r * .. ^ ; . " " ° ' - ' ' : " ' V /¦ V ¦ O * Reasbi ^ a ^ c ^ mott s ^ n ^"^^ excluded than as tjiey are incapable of comprehending tha mysteries of ^ God ; or » as St . Paul denominates the doc ^ God in a niystfe
te * y ^ Ybii eeHainly # ittt « aBV « J IBet ^ tt iricompre ^ sflbte : > ju recolfect that fin ^ strkinl of VeipreMJatioh ^ n this subject by itne author of Ihe book of Job : . " Canst thou , by searching find out God ? Canst Ihlpu jfihS dii ^ the Almi g hty fthto pe ^ feciidn ? It Was high as tie ^ ven ; v ^ i ' C ^ t ^^ dti ? Deeper than hell ; what ca ^ st l ^ u knbv \ r ? Tll m ^^ ^ o ^ ij longer than the earth , and broader than the sea . " Can yord mlqd ^ ^ j ?? ' if htsprjocMt ^ e Should not be leve l in every respect to ttie cbtnpr ^ nensiQiiQf . hmte intelligences , especially to a being of such hmited capacity a ^ mpn ?
RckH ) llecti I pfay you , the statement of St . Paul , " Without CQrttW £$ iy great ia tne mystery of godliness . ' * . j ^ 4 . But while the incomprehensibility of the Divi ne Nature ^ re ^ aiiy ^ cknowl&lgecl , and also the incomprehensibility of his works * liqi m ® M ? £ - sped ^ , -tpiS ' iurnishes no substantial reason why his moral jp | oc ^ ure ^ as revved to man , should be equally incomprehensible . L , h O ; No ! I think it does . Were man able to comprehend even | Ae ^ drat xi . no ; i i imnK u aoes . were man aoie to comprenenq ^ ven jtne moral ,
prbcc » dute of the Almighty , he must be possessed of an Jnie ! iljgency t ajvi prrdachitr ^ 16 divine . Ve ry differently , however , did prophets an 4 apostle ^ regard this subject . * ' My thoughts / ' saith the Lord iu tti £ Propheci es of Isaiah , ' au ^ e not your thoughts , neither are your ways my ways /; jfor | as fhe heavens are higher than the earth , so are my ways higher th ^ n yo \ jr , WJ [ S and my thoughts than your thoughts . " " O the depth , " says St . P ^ ul ^ ^ of the riches b&th of the wisdpm and knowledge of God ! How uiisearchfttife arie his'jiid ^ rnehts , and his ways past finding out ! " His jud ^ e ^ aj ! idJ ^ is wfiys ^ bu will alloW' to be moral procedure , and that too as it regard ^| ijng ! n . J 1 Wb / then a ^ m 1 called upon to believe a doctrine as revealed , and ( o actii ^ ^ ifihat ddclriheWmcompre ^^ ; : " ! "'" O . You believe a thousand things equally incomprehensible : nay , it is
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1827, page 798, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1802/page/14/
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