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/ \ j Remarks on Mr . Stones Visitation Sermon .
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hath purchased the cjmrch with his . own blood ; the p re-existent Creator of the universe , equal with God the Father , King of Kings , and Lord of Lords , Alpha and Omega , the Beginning and the End , the First and the Last . Compare Psalm xlv . 6 , 7 , 11 . Isaiah ix . 6 , 7 . Zech . ii \ 8—13 . Micah , v . 2 . 1 Timothy , iii . 16 . Acts , x * . 28 . Coloss . 1 . 15—17 . Phil . ii . 6 . Rev . xix . 16 . xxii . 13 , 16 . Mr . Stone has completely mistaken the prophecy in Isaiah vin 14—16 .
** The child" mentioned in verse 16 , is Shear-Jashub , not Emmanuel , As Dr . Kennicot rightly observes , the word ought to be translated this child / ' Isaiah holds his son in his hand , and points to him . The word nD ^? y ° nly occurs seven times in the Bible , and it invariably denotes either a . virgin , " or " a state of virginity . " Its very derivation , indeed , shews its import . A virgin was called ntDby , from the concealed retired condition in which young unmarried women were kept Jin the East . Nothing , is more common in the Bible than a prophetic" sign . Here an event remotely future is a sign to Ahaz of speedily approaching deli 7 erancf . A virgin shall bear a son , whose nature shall be so mysterious as to justify his being called " God with us , " or , as Jeremiah styles him , * Jehovali
our Righteousness . " This last name the LXX write Iw < reSsK mak ng it a compound proper name , like Emaimeh It is superfluous to point out to the discerning Teader , that not a shadow of proof is given of the supposed interpolations in St . Matthew and elsewhere . But , though proof be wanting , we have Mr * Stone ' s ipse dixit ; his ignorance of the church * history is lamentable : he represents the Athanasian Trinity as being a yet further corruption of the Arian Trinity . Arius and Athanasius were contemporaries j and the opinions of Arius were opposed , on their first promulgation .
by those who already held the opinions of Athanasius . But perhaps Mr . Stone will require us to believe , that all those passages in the very earliest fathers , wherein the divinity of Christ is ass-erted , ere mere interpolations . If so , he will certainly out-Procrustes even Procrustes himself . Mr . Stone wishes to substitute a subscription to the Scriptures only , for a subscription to the prticlefi . , What Scriptures ? Certainly not the Scriptures as they stand at presept ^ tq ^
fbr Mr . S . rejects all those parts of them which ^ eclare ^ diyini ^ y of Christ , and the atorioment , as spurious interpolation ^ , ; It i % plain , therefore , that he modestly requires the cturfch tQ subscribe to his Scriptures ; that is to say , the Scriptures whei ^ gatrbl ^ d and mutilated by the itiere conjectural emendation of the Raptor of Cold Norton * For the doctrine of atonement ^ it is declared in Jewish , prophecy , see Isaiah liii . 4—8 , 11 , 1 % . Dan . ix . ^ 4—26 . Ida not mentiori the Levitical sacrifices , particularly the Paschal Lamb , becauso Mr . S . would probably deny the whole scheme pf types ^ nd ariti-ty pe < j : yet the reader may compare John i . 36 . and Rev . y » 6 # Spgf 12 . mththo institution of the Passove ^ .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1807, page 70, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2377/page/14/
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