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not uniforml y speak of him as a person , as a man , without the least intimation . of his possessing any nature supc-Tior to that of man ? Has the name Emmanuel any
relation to his nature ? Does it not evidently refer to his miracles and his doctrines , by which God was peculiarly and eminently with us , manifesting his presence , power and goodness ? This is perfectly agreeable to the assertions of our Lord , that the Father was with him , that he dwelt in him ,
and that the works which he did were not his , but the Father ' s who dwelt in him , and with those of his apostle ^ who says , that , " he was a man approved of God by miracles and signs which God did by him , '' and that , «* he went about doing good ; for God was with him . " This ,
therefore , is a sufficient justification of his being called in prophecy , *< God with us / ' without the supposition of a -mysterious nature as the reason of the appellation . There is nothing then in the term Emmanuel that proves' Christ to be God , or that represents him as being possessed of proper divinity / This writer adds , ' Jeremiah styles him , ( that is Christ ) * Jehovah our righteousness * , which is a compound proper name , like Emmanuel . So , he says , theLXX .
understood it . Now when Jehovah is found in the composition of a proper name in the Hebrew scriptures ^ it is never intended to convey the idea that the person or thing to which that name is given is Jehovah , the God of the Old Testament j but such names are designed as memorials of of
^ orne interposition Jehovah , or of some benefits received from him . For instance Gen . xxii . 14 , a place is called Jehovah-Jireth . Exod , xvii . 15 ., an altar is called Jehovahnissi . Judges vi . 24 , another altar is called , Jehovah-shalorti , Ezek . xlviii . 35 , a city is called , Jehovah-Shainmah , and in
Jeremiah xxxiii . 16 / it is said , " In those days shall Judab be saved , and Jerusalem shall dwell safely : and this is the name wherewith she shall be called . Jehovah our righteottsntssJ The name in the last passage is precisely the
same as that which this wrjter applies to Christ ; if th ^ n Jehovah being a part of it in that passage , proves him to be Jehovah , God , it will equally prove the person to whom it is given in this to be so too ; consequently we shall have two Jehovahs , and , according to our rendering , the one a male and the other a female .
But we may observe , that in the latter passagef , the ? iame * Chap , xxiii . 6 . * f Jer . xxxiii . x 6 ,
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35 S An Examination of the Remarks on Stone ' s Sermon .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1807, page 352, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2382/page/12/
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