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read if the Word God was supplied wherever Christ is mentioned : however absurd such phraseology may appear , Irep eat , if Jesus Christ be God , the adoption of it can be no departure from truth * As common sense , without any laboured effort , at once discovers that many things are spoken of Christ which never could be true of God , it cannot avoid the conclusion that Christ is not God ; for had he been God such things could no more be true of him than they are
of the one God , the Father of all . God could not be born , could not increase in wisdom , could not have a mother and brethren , could not be circumcised , baptized and tempted , could not be exceeding sorrowful even unto death , could not be bound ancj beaten with stripes , could not be crucified-and slainj could not be buried and raised from the dead ; but all these things are related of Jesus Christ , and , if we believe the gospel history , we ou ^ ht to admit they are strictly true of
the very Christ , the Son of the living God : but then it will unavoidably follow that Christ is not , cannot be , the very God . This then is the decision of common sense ; i . e . the long continued controversy respecting our Lord ' s divinity may be decided by plain illiterate men , simply by a sober attention to the plain facts recorded in the New Testament , and the exercise of reason upon them ; if thos 6 facts be true Christ could not be God , for if he had been God he could not have been born , he could not have died , he could not have been raised from the dead . In the view of common sense , the asserting that Christ is very God ,
involves a denial of the great facts which are at the foundation of Christianity ; though I suppose those who so often make that assertion do not perceive it . To drive me from my ground , as an advocate for the use of reason and common sense in matters of religion , I have been told a great deal about carnal reason , and the danger of listening to carnal reasoning , but I have never been able to comprehend what this meant , though I think
I have perceived the design of the persons who talked so ; for reason is certainly the ' gift of God ,, and he would hardly have jriven us reason had he not intended we should uso rt * nor can I see how we can judge of any thing but by the use of reason ; nor have I been able to discover how reaso n can be carnal ; I have indeed seen many persons wha were very carnal and sensual , evidently because they did not make a proper use of their reason : besides , I find that those who cry out the most against reason , make use of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1807, page 421, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2383/page/25/
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