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* ' Remarks on Mr . Stone ' s Visitation Sermon / ' in which he is charged with rejecting all those parts of the scripti ^ res which declare the divinity of Christ and the atonement as spurious interpolations * We have examined some of the passages produced by this writer as asserting the former of those doctrines , and have , it js presumed , s ^ ewn that such a doctrine cannot he
fairly inferred froin any one oi them . Those passages were taken from the Old Testament . Let us now proceed to examine what he has advanced from the New Testament in support of the divinity of Jesus Christ , where if it be a truth we may expect to find it more clearly revealed . iC He it is / ' says our author , €€ whom the writers of the ftfew Testament assert to be God , manifest in the flesh- ^ God , who
hath purchased the Church with his own blood ; the pre-existent Creator of the universe , equal with God the Father * Kipg of kings and Lord of lords , Alpha and Omega , the begu ^ uing 9-nd the end , the first and the last . " The first of these assertions that Jesus Christ is *•* God 'manifest
in the flesh" ( iTim . lii . i 6 . ) is not , as he must know , a fair . citation of the passage , which as it qow stands is * 4 f God uas manifest in the flesh , " thereby confining this manifestation to a ( certain period , that i $ , the time of our Lord * s ministry , by which this mystery was revealed and not by a mysterious conjunction of divinity and humanity in his person , of \ vhich neither this passage nor any other in the N < ew Testament gives us the most
distant intimation . But let us ask , does not this learned divine know that tl \ e word 8 eos in this text is not to be found in any greek copy before the fourth or fifth century ? I § he ignorant that it was never cited or alluded to in the Arian controversy ? Has he never heard of Sir Tsaac Newton's letter to Le Clerc , in which he has
demonstrated that that word is an interpolation , and that the original reading ; was , The mystery of godliness , o , lohich was manifest in the flesh . " The wordy ?*' . * A in the scriptures frequently sig ~ nifies man , as when it is said , < All flesh have corrupted their
way "— " The end of . ; 11 flesh is come before me "— " Cursed be the man who trusjteth in man and inaketl . J&esh his arm j whose heart departeth from the living God . ' ' JUil natuiai import , then , of the words is , Ci Great is the mystery of godliness which was manifested ev by man , " in or by the man Christ Jesus . So John i . 14 . it is said , " T ! r ; woj J was flesh , " that is , was man . The same writer , direc i g Christians to try the spirits , whether they are of God lays it own as a criterion by which they were to judge of the spirit cl { JMth ajid tfoe spirit of
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234 An Exa yyi inaiion of the Remarks on Stone s Sermon .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1807, page 234, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2380/page/10/
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