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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS.
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Miscellaneous Communications.
MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS .
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an examination of the clergyman ' s remarks on stone ' s sermon . 9 \ LETTER I . To the Editor of the Mont Alt / Repository . Sir , It is not uncommon for the dogmatizing orthodox party t 6 charge with ignorance and inattention all those who differ from them , without offering any reason or argument in support of
their own opinions . They produce ., indeed , a number of passages of scripture ^ but without investigating their meaning , or shewing by any mode of proof , that they have any relation to the subject for which they are brought : it is thought by them sufficient to assert that they do unequivocally express it , and that assertion is made the only evidence of the fact .
This reflection was suggested by Remarks written by a clergyman on the cover of Stone's Visitation Sermon ^ which appeared in the Monthly Repository for February . * The Remarker says , " Mr . Stone must have read the ancient prophets in the most cursory manner , to hazard the strange assertions which the reader will find in the following discourse /*
The assertions referred to , are evidently those which represent Jesus of Nazareth , as the Scriptures express it , as " aMAN approved of God , ' * and not as being himself the very God . Now what can have made these assertions appear so straiige f not an attention to the ancient prophets , or to the language of the New Testament ; neither of which represent him in any other light .
The Remarker , however , thinks otherwise and refers first to Micah'V . 2 . wherein , he says , " the divinity of our blessed Saviour is unequivocally declared - ' * Strange assertion ! Is there any thing like it in the passage ? Let us examine it ; the words are , ** And thou Bethlehem Ephrata , though thou be
little among the thousands of Judah , yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me , that is to be ruler in Israel : whose goings forth have been from of old , from everlasting . " The speaker in this passage , is evidently Jehovah , the Only Living and True God : ihe prophecy foretels , that a person of the tribe of Judah should arise , or come forth to Jehovah , who was to be
ruler over Israel : such a prediction cannot surely refer to the clivinc Bfiing , or to a person properly God . The divine Being
* vol . n . p . 69 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1807, page 176, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2379/page/8/
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