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Had J . M . paid a little more attention to the study of logic he would have seen that he ought to have informed his readers , whether he denied the divinity of Christ on the score of its impossibility or on the score of its not being revealed in scripture . If the first , the labour which he has bestowed
on explaining away various troublesome texts i& plainly superfluous ; for , if the doctrine be rejected on the ground of impossibility , it cannot be received by J . M . even if it be really contained in scripture : if the second , then his questions are palpably absurd ; because in that case the matter is to be decided by scripture ^ not by the abstract consideration of its possibility or impossibility . I was at first in some doubt
whether I should answer J . M . till I knew whether he argued on the principles of admitting or rejecting the authority of scripture : but , since his various explanations lead me to conjecture that he admits it , I shall proceed to consider them , leaving to him the task of shewing the consistency of those explanations with his knotty questions about possibilities .
The first text is Micah , V- 2- concerning which I am said to make a strange assertion * Here I find , that he who is to be ruler in Israel is said to come forth from Bethlehem , and yet his goings forth are said to have been from of old ,
from everlasting . The obvious meaning of the passage seems to me to be that which is given by Mr , Lowth , < c The words do naturally import an original , distinct from the birth of Christ mentioned , in the foregoing sentence , which is here declared to be frofri all eternity . For so the words
Mckkedem ( translated here from of old , but rendered from everlasting , Habak . i . 12 . ) and Mime Olam , < from the days o £ eternity / do plainly signify . See Psalm lv . 19-xe . 2 . Prov . viii . 23 . " In short the passage , when untortured by
Soeinian criticism , sets forth what divines hath termed the eternal generation of the Son . J . M , says , that iC this person was to come forth to Jehovah , and therefore was not Jehovah . ' * Here is a curious instance of his begging the question . The
very point , concerning which we are disputing , he assumes j and then uses It syllogistically as an argument . Let him prove that Christ is not Jehovah , and then his syllogism will be valid : . till then it just leaves the matter where it found it . J . M . dogmatically asserts , that the scriptures know no such compound being as the God-man Jesus Christ , Let him prove his assertion . I did not require to be told by J . M . that scripture teaches that u there is one God , and one mediator between God and man , the man Jesus Christ *"
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The Clergyman * $ Answer to J . M . 46 f
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1807, page 407, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2383/page/11/
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