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em > r * , Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh , ' * that is , that he is properly a man , * is of God * And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh / ' that is , that denieth him to be a many € ( is not of
God . This is that spirit of antichrist , whereof you have heard that it should cotte /* Nor can your correspondent object to this interpretation of the term flesh , because to support his sens § of the passage it must refer to what he calls the humanity of Christ in distinction from his divinity . Now what is this spirit of antichrist but trinitarianism ? Those who maintain that
doctrine have all the marks of antichrist given us by this apostle . By asserting that Jesus Christ is the very God , or that he is a mysterious being in whose nature divinity and humanity are so united , mixed 5 and confounded , as to constitute an heterogeneous person , neither God nor man , they deny him to be man , or that he is come in flesh ; for though they ascribe humanity to him , yet they affirm that humanity not to be aperso ?! , but a mere nalure ^ and consequently not a man .
John is supposed to have written what he says of antichrist ill opposition to the doctrine of Cerinthus , who maintained that Jesus was not the Christ , but that the Christ was a divine person that descended into Jesus at his baptism and fled from him to heaven at his crucifixion ; hence John says , 1 . Epis . ii . 22 . " Who is a liar , but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ ?
He is antichrist , that denieth the Father and the Son / ' And what is trinitarianism but the doctrine of Cerinthus obscured by the pretended hypostatical union of the two natures in one person ? Availing themselves of this device , they can affirm or deny any thing of Jesus Christ , either that he was the Christ , or that he
was not the Christ ; that he was God * or that he was not God ; that he was immutable and impassible , and yet that he was capable of sufferings and of death ; thus denying him to be a man , and consequently denying him to be the Christ , the anointed of God .
YThe doctrine of the trinity is the moat prominent feature in that grand apostacy and corruption of Christianity predicted in the New Testament ; it is , as John expresses it , the very spirit of antichrist ; upon it is built the doctrine of trans instantiation—* the deification of the Virgin Mary , and almost every other branch of that monstrous and abominable superstition ^ which has so 3 ontr prevailed under the name of Christianity to the almost totat subversion of Christianity itself . * I , Ep . John it . 3 . 4 .
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An Examination of the Ttefnarks on Mont ' s Sermon . 23 $
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1807, page 235, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2380/page/11/
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