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VIIL The only wise God is blindfolded and buffeted as a fool . IX * He that is God * and none else , is treated as less than nothing . X . The holy God reckoned a confederate with the devil , XL God above all , ( Rom . ix « 5 , in the original ) is sunk into th « 13 ust of death . XII- God blessed for ever is made a curse . XIII . The God of Abraham , Isaac and Jacob , is murdered by
Jacob ' s children , the Jews . XIV . The Lord of hosts is forsook by every being , upon the cross , 3 flid hatfy not one out of allhis armies to attend and comfort him . XV . The Jtitig of kings , sold for 31 . 15 s . the price of a slave among the Jews . XVI . The God of the whole earth becomes as poor as a beggar . 2 Cor . viii . 9 , ( in the original ) . : XVIL The God of absolute dominion over all worlds , is made
subject to his own law , both in its commands and its curses . XVIII . The supreme judge of men and angels is arraigned as a criminal at Pilate ' s bar , and condemned by his own creatures , his own guilty and wretched Creatures . XIX « The great giver of eternal life suffers death , the author of ^ sall pardons himself condemned to death for guilt . XX . The author of all resurrections in the vegetable and human world , sinks down and dies . XXf , The best beloved son of God dreadfully punished by his own Father . - ^ Such was the manner in which his school-bovs were initiated
into the greater mysteries of orthodoxy , by the late Rev . John Ryland ^ to whose preaching I haveseen crowds resort , as to that of an eminently sound divine , whose doctrine interested , while his occasional eccentricities ,, amused them . Should the paper
which I have transcribed be charged to eccentricity , I might safely challenge the reverend antagonist of J . M . or any other of your orthodox readers , ( for I hope you have many such ) to allow the premises that Jesus Christ is God and man , and then justly to reject my quondam preceptors twenty-one stupendous
conclusions . But this well-intending , and , in many respects , ingenious man was by no means singular in a fondness for < c astonishino- extremes or unparalleled onposites /* I well
remember to have read , not many years ago , a sermon on in ^ passage , Is not this the carpenter s son ? in which the author , a respectable dissenting minister , now deceased ., was transported into a pious rapture upon this subject , Adopting the ancient tradition that Jesus had worked at . his Father ' s trade , he
described the angels " as-paying him-divine worship and at the &amcitim . e . shouting , ¦ t hrough the enjpyfeal" ** The Carpenter ! ifre Car pen Ut . ¥ *
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$ 34 Trinitarian Paradoxes .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1807, page 534, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2385/page/26/
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