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his Testament : the present bishop of Lincoln declares it to bo spurious ,, and I could mention many others of" the same opinion . My companion was not inclined to acquiesce in any of these authorities ,, and observed _ , that , if the verse ought not to b < s there , the opinion contained in it was maintained in other
parts oi scripture ., and was upheld by all the fathers of the Church . To this I replied , that the Greek fathers certainly did believe in the trinity , though they did not quote this verse to support it , which was an additional proof , that they had it not in their Testaments : and I added , that , if he was not satisfied
111 his mind , that the verse was originally written by John , he ought never to quote it ; and I did not see how he could do his duty to God ; and to his congregation , if he used words as scripture , which were not in scripture . It became him to examine the arguments on both sides , and to judge impartially upon a fair view of the subject .
My companion , I observed , was a little struck with what I said , for he had kept company with men only of his own persuasion , and had never been accustomed to have an r of his notions called in question . He had been taught a certain routine of opinions in his college , just as most dissenting ministers , particularl y those of the Calvinistic persuasion , who do not study the bible to learn ' what God teaches , but to confirm by texts
of scripture , from all quarters , what has been laid down by preceding teachers . This is a lamentable thing for the Christian world . The people are kept in ignorance , nearly as bad as that
of poperv , and the false arguments repeatedly used bv their preachers ., they do not daieto call in question , for fear of being stigmatised as heretics . My companion brought me ^ among others , that text , in which Jesus himself is bv these teachers
accused of that blasphemy , which , it he had uttered it would have deservedl y brought him cither to the tatal iree , or given sufficient grounds for confining him in a madhouse . ^ Before Abraham was , I am / ' said Jesus ; that is , said my companion , Jesus says , that he is God . How is that , I replied ? Why , said he ^ the term " I am , ' is the Hebrew name for God . H it is 3 f replied , then Jesus said only , ' before Abraham was God ; ' *
and this was so well-known a truth , that it required no prophet from heaven to tell us it : but 1 added , von know very well , that the Hebrew language has no terms to express the words " I an */ ' ( or in that language there is no present lensc . The coach coming up that was to take me on my journev , ! was obJigcd to leave my companion , witli whom I kit matter to
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A Theological Conversation . 583
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1807, page 583, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2386/page/19/
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