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THE CLERGYMAN ' S ANSWER . TO J . M . LETTRR T . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository * Str , As you have inserted in the publication which you conduct some strictures of a writer who signs himself J . M ,
On the remarks which I wrote on the cover of Stone ' s Sermon , I suppose you will have no objection likewise to insert an answer to th £ i * u
When J , M , asks such questions as the following , c * Can the divine Bfeirig be the subject of" prophecy ? Can it be fofetold of the * iqrnnutable Ood , that he would change his mode of existence , ce ^ s ^ to be what he is , and became an infant
born of ope of his creatures ? I am at a loss to discover how they apply to the question about which we are at issue . The point is n 6 t what the divine Being can be Recording to our pre-conceived notions of possibiKtiesar probabilities , but what he is said tct be and to 4 o iq scripture . If the Volume of inspiration , unmutilated by contrivartces like those
0 ? Mfv Stope , be considered as of decisive authority , then the questions of JT M . are wholly irrelevant . If is preconceptions have nothing to dQ with the matter . We must be guided Hot by what he m ay fancy either possible or imppssiblej but simply by whgtf the Bible savs . Now , upon perusing the £ tble , we Trinitarians flnd jt declared , that there is only one God .
vV ' e further find , th ? it three diflferejit persons have each the pames and attributes qf the Godhead ascribed to them . . And we lastly find , that one pf these persons is sometimes said to be God and equ ^ l with God , and sometimes tp be man | tnd inferior to God r But ^ Jl thpse declarations rest on the
same authority . Hence we feel ourselyes obliged to receive them ^ 11 . This according to our views of scripture ,, necessarily produces the doctrine of the unity in trinity and the hum ^ no-div } ne nature of Chpst . T jie Sociriiaqs however th ink , that i > one of thes ^ declarations pan be founfl in scripture ,
except those p f the sample unity of Qod and the mere humanity of Christ . Here then , I had always understood that Trinitarians £ md Socinians were at issue ; but the paper of « J . M leads jrie to suspect that I have been mistaken * flfe to
^ lies fi | f abstract questions abqu t possibilities j questiqn ^ , which wpul ^ be strictly proper in the moutfy of a deistical ^ nfidel , bi ^ t > v } iich seeaj to me \ o procped . with a very singular grace from th ftt ^> f $ Socinian , who ( I had always supposed ) professes to borrow his opinions from scripture without any Dfpyiqvia caqsideratipji cither of possibilities or imppssibilitieS y
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1807, page 406, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2383/page/10/
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