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    X38 J* M.*s Reply to the Clergyman dn the Divinity of Christ,

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    be the ttue rending , for '* it produced duzCn right nonsense / 9 Of what I advanced to show that Trinitarianism was the spirit of antichrist he has not cited a sentence , or offered a word to

    refute it ; the truth of it therefore remains uncontroverted - Acts xx . 28 . I make some observations on the passage as it stands , and also observe that in-4

    stead of * the church of ' G&dJ * some of the ancient versions read , ^ the church of the Lords and the Syriac , which is of the highest antiquity and authority , reads .

    ** the church of the Messiah . " AW this the clergyman has thought it most _ prudent to pass over without any observation . The reason of which will be obvious to the reader if he will take the trouble of referring to the passage * . lie asserts , indeed , that , The answer which J , M . gives to Acts > x . 28 , is a more quibble / ' A reply which the most ignorant

    blockhead could easily make to ttre . most profound argument that ever came from the pen of man . lie then makes a very vise appeal to any man , whether the words of the present translation do not

    stand as th # y do , and to account for the expression , " The blood of God , " he has recourse to his usual unsupported subterfuge , that * God and man being one

    Christ , the blood of Christ , although the blood of the tnan Jesus , ( arrd consequently ' not the blood of God , as he says the text asserts it to be ) is styled the blood of € * od . " Archbishop Newcome r s -tendering is " The church of the tittrij&c . "

    X38 J* M.*S Reply To The Clergyman Dn The Divinity Of Christ,

    X 38 J * M . * s Reply to the Clergyman dn the Divinity of Christ ,

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    Vhit we must come to something more important . 1 have supposed an ellipsis : here-this ' proud , blustering champion takes his stand , brandishing his sword with an air of defiance ; but the reader will

    presently see whether a sling and a stone will not bring Kim to the ground , aivl turn his insulting triumph into confusion and shame . The passage is such a master ^

    piece of criticism and argument that-I will not injure the learned divine by omitting any part of it ; it is . as follows : " By the assistance however of a convenient

    ellipsis , or some similar contrivance , a Socinian will persuade himself , whatever he may do others , that a text means the very reverse of what unlettered Christians would suppose it to mean . In support of his ellipsis , he adduces 1 John iii . 5 , and says , that the only antecedent to he wai manifested is the father in verse 1 : but the Father , even accord - ins : to the Trinitarian scheme was

    nut manifested \ therefore he must be referred to Christy though he is not mentioned in the-context . I deny that the antecedent to he toas manifested is the Father . This passage is exactly parallel to that

    in Acts . In both , God is the antecedent : both consequently prove Christ to be Gad . " That the texts arc parallel is admit ted , and that that verse refers to Christ

    is also admitted ; but the clergyman denies that an ellipsis is necessary to make out that applica * tion , and affirms that the ante cedent to / ie was manifested ^ v . j 5 , i $ Go' ! 9 and that that Gad it not the Father . Here we are-at 1 V

    ? M . Rep o * 1807 , page 2 ^ 6 .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1808, page 138, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2390/page/18/