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the judge of mankind . " He tells his readers thai the Supreme Being will not judge the world in his own person perhaps , lest we * should be overcome by his august majesty / ' Where did my friend learn this new and strange doctrine ? He adds " he
will not appoint mere man to sustain this arduous office , for every man must be judged himself , and how could a mortal he equal to the mighty task . " And yet our Lord himself tells us , John v . 273 " That the Father gave him authority to execute judgment because he is the son of man /* And the * Apostle Paul declares to the Athenians , Acts xvii ., 31 , that he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained , whereof he hath given assurance unto all men in that he hath raised him from the dead /* It is plain therefore that neither Jesus nor Paul
felt any difficulty in the supposition that a man should be appointed to judge the world . My friend evades the conclusion by the assumption that Jesus was not a mere man . Let him however recollect , that he here again assumes the very point to be proved . But this argument \ v \\\ not avail him . For our Lord declares to his apostles who were certainly mere men that they should he assessors with him in judging the world . Matt , xix . 28 5 " Verily I say unto you , when the son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory , ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones
judging the twelve tribes of Israel . " And the apostle Paul advances still further , and plainly affirms that the whole body of Christians are constituted to be hereafter judges of the world , and even of angels , 1 Cor . vi . 2 > 3 , " Do ye not know that the saints shall judfije the world ? Know ye not that we shall judge angels ? ' **
What the exact meaning either of our Lord , or of the apostle in these obscure passages may be , I confess T do not perfectly comprehend . One fact however is sufficiently obvious , that whatever is intended by the office of judging the world , it is an office to which mere human beings may be appointed and for which they may be qualified : and consequentl y that the appointment of Jesus of Nazareth to judge the world is by no
means inconsistent with his proper humanity . To pretend that the office of judging the world when predicated of Jesus is one thing , and when attributed to his apostles and to Christians in general is anotheT , is a mere gratuitous assertion without proof * and brought forward for no purpose but to serve an hypothesis *
The true meaning of the declaration can perhaps only be explained by the event itself . My friend adopts without hesitation the common hypothesis of some splendid appearance and personal agency of Jesus himself . And I pretend not to sajp
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462 Mr . Behham ' s Strictures on Carpenter ' s Lectures .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1807, page 462, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2384/page/10/
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