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the world when he resided for thirty years upon earth in' human shape ^ and at the same time never to let fall the slightest hint of his real essence and dignity , and never to say any thing more
concerninghim than they would have related of a mere human being in similar circumstances ? \\ fould not the imind of a Jew who had never heard of delegated creators arid subordinate Jehovahs , have been overwhelmed with astonishment when this new and strange doctrine was first discovered to him ? Woulif not his intellectual powers have ; been absorbed in amazement ,
when he was first informed that the person , whom he had perhaps seen a helpless infant in his mother ' s arms , whom he had known as a child , with whom he had conversed with all the familiarity of a friend , who was subject to all the incidents and infirmities of hutinan nature , who Was liable to hutsger and / thirst , and i ^ earinesSj and pain , and sleep , was no lesg a being
than the creator , sustainer and governor of the world , and the Lord of angels ? Is it possible that a historian under such impressions , and sitting down to write the memoirs of such a personage , should introduce his history with a simple narrative of the genealogy of David and of Joseph ? An introduction
than which nothing could be more proper ^ if our Lord was the legitimate son of Joseph , and the natural descendant of David and Abraham , agreeably to the predictions of the Jewish prophets ; but which rnust be most unnatural and insipid , at the commencement of the memoirs of an incarnate Creator *
How happens it that three out of four of the evangelical historians , writing at different places , and for the immediate use of different and distant churches ^ and professing to communicate all that was necessary to be known concerning their revered Master ^ should agree to pass over iii silence , these extraordinary circumstances ? How could these evangelists answer it to their consciences and to their converts ^ or to
their great Master himself , to omit facts , the practical influence of which , is so eminently beneficial ? I marvel not that my good friend deprecates all such interrogatories as these * Upon his system they must be absolutely unanswerable . If the evangelists had the feelings of men , they could not possibly be silent , if they had known these facts : therefore they did not know them : and consequently it cannot be true that Jesus Christ is the maker and governor of the world ^ either supreme
or subordinate . To obviate the difficulty arising from the high importance of the facts omitted * my friend introduces a distinction unknown before in theology , as far as imy information extends . He distinguishes between iC primary and secondary truths / ' p . 226 ,
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Mr . SetshafhrS Stricture i on Cct rpenter * s Z&ciuires * 541
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1807, page 541, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2385/page/33/
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