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    Tiiatlity with ^ yo / ur sentiments , but you have manifested ( which do < 5 s you no small ^ Honour * ) an eqiial readiness to a ^ mit his replies . I shall be thankful to him if 1

    receive any further light from them ; and if he should , by sound scripturdl arguments , convince me of any errors or mistakes , I wilt gladly acknowledge them . * The Clergyman animadverts first upon some questions I pro - pose on Isaiah ix . 6 , 7 , which he

    says are , " Can the Divine Being be the subject of prophecy ? Can it be foretold of the immutable God , that he would change his mode of existence , cease to bd what he is , arid become an infant

    torn of one of his creatures r" I proceed to astc , " Can it be fore - told , that he would be at the disposal of fjSlfre other being , a son given f That he would be advariced to power ? And that then be would be called , that is , he would really be , The mighty

    Gtftf , the everlasting Father ? And can it be said ,- ^ f him , the mighty God , as it is here said , that he shall isit upon the throne of David , his Father ? ° These questions , except the two first , lie thought it most prudent to suppress . What answer does he

    give to those he has cited ? None at all . Interrogations are , not unfrequently , very troublesome things , afrd where they will not admit of an answer without

    ruining the cause intended to be supported , the only resource is to misrepresent them . Accordingly ' , h §> calls them " abstract questions about possibilities ; questions

    vrhjcil would be striptly proper in th&mouth of a de ^ ttcal whdely bjut \ vbich : ^ f ? m to him to proceed with a very singular grace from that

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    of a ISocinian . " Arid adds ** that he is . fcat a los * to discover how they apply to the question about which we are at issue /* My questions are , in their very nsu ture , a positive denial , put in forcible language , of the

    possibility of any change in the Supreme Being . They arise out of and arc supported by the positive declarations of the Bible , that that Being is " Jehovah , who changeth not ; The r ather of Lights , with whom is no variableness , neither shadow of turning . To have

    answered them in the affirmative would have been little short of blasphemy ; it would have been to rob the Supreme Being of all his essential perfections * those perfections which naturally Associate themselves with all our con *

    ceptions of Deity , and which are perpetually celebrated in " the sacred writings . To have answered them * in the negative , would have , been to have conceded to me all

    that I contend for . But the Clergyman is at a loss to discover how they apply to the question ^ . t issue . The question is , t ) oes the prophecy ( Isaiah ^ k ( 5 , 7 ) relate to the Supreme xfeing or to a Pan . Tltie subject of that pro * iecy is , a child that was to be

    born , a son that was to be given * Let the reader compare the inter * , rogations with th © prophecy , and then judge whether they are per- * tinent , or , as he says , u wholly irrelevant . " The Clergyman , however , has here shewn aeonof

    sidt ^ rablc degree dexterity . When he animadverts upon my questions , he carefully avoids < t ? i y allusion to the prophecy on which they are founded ^ apd ^ itt % ikNNfr marks on the prophecy , he makes Ha sort bf allusion to the que ^ fioqf

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    ID J . M . * 5 Reply to theCltrgytofiak 6 n the TSiviqltyvf Christ

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1808, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2388/page/16/