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    religion * To me it appears that many of the controversies which have so long agitated the Christian world , might be easily settled by the exercise of a little plain good sense on the facts and declarations of scripture . Permit me , as a specimen , to present your readers with a sample of what ttictv be done in this way , in reference to the different opinions

    which obtain respecting the person of Christ . I take for granted , that christians of all parties will fully admit , at least in words , that there is but one God . On the ground of this admission , taking common sense for rny £ uide > 1 go to the examination of the controverted point ,

    whether Christ be properly God : and the following easy solution of the matter naturally presents itself . If-Christ be God , whatever is said of him must be true of God ; for common sense dictates , that what is true of him must be true of i £ proper person , indeed the two parts of this oos-ition seem identical ; therefore if his proper person be

    divine , very God , nothing- can be true of him but what is true of a divine person , of the very God . To deny this isj in fact , to say that that may be true of Christ which is not true of him- £ mch self-contradiction may be admissible by those who would build faith upon the ruins of reason , but can never be admitted by those who choose to retain the

    use of common sense . On the ground just stated it follows that , if Christ be very God , wherever he is mentioned in the New Testament the word God may be substituted ; for it can be no departure from truth to substitute one name in the place of another when both are equally applicable to

    the person spoken of : yet such a change of terms would make an alteration that would perhaps startle the advocates for his proper godhead ^ though perfectly accordant with their avowed opinions . We should then read Mat . 1 . 18 " Now the birth of God was on this wise , when as

    his mother Mary , &x / Chap in , 13 . "Then cometh Gad from Galilee to Jordan unto ; John to be baptised of him . ' * Chap . iv . 1 . " Then was God led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil . " John iv . 6 . 6 C God therefore being wearied with his journey , sat thus on the well . " Chapv xviii . 12 . " Then the band , and the captain and officers of the Jews took Gody and bound him . ** Chap .

    xxi . 2 Q . " The place where God was crucified was nigh unto the city / ' I Cor . i . 23 * ' * We preach God crucified /' These are a few out of the many specimens which might be . giveu pf the manner in which the New Testament woulcf

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    420 Decisions of Coonmoii Sensr .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1807, page 420, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2383/page/24/