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LETTERS TO MR . ( NOW BISHOP ) BURGESS , ON THE TESTIMONY OF THE JEWS TO THE PERSON OF CHRIST . LETTER IV .
SIR , I have proved , I think , that the term , son of God , does not in itself denote , that the person honoured by such a title , is equal to God . I shall now examine in
what sense the Jews ^ the cotemporaries of Christ , understood it . But , previous to this inquiry , it will be necessary to determine , what degree of authority is to be given to their testimony . Are we to give credit to all their assertions ? Then we must believe
that Christ was a madman , a blasphemer , in league with' the devil , a deceiver , a Samaritan , worthy of death . Are we to pay too credit to any assertions of his cotQmporaries ? Tfyeri we should * to injustice to several of th ^ em .
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who declared Jesus to be the son of David , a prophet of Nazareth , the son of God ; a good man , the lamb of God , the chosen of God , the king of . Israel , the saviour of the world .
From this difference of testi - mony ^ it is manifest , that we cannot receive implicitly every thing advanced by the cotem . poraries of Christ . Their evi - dence is strictly to be searched : and , as in a court of justice ,
where it is found dictated by passion or prejudice , to be rejected * In the case before . us at present , we have no difficulties eft this sort to encounter : the same language is used by both the friends and foes of Christ ; by our Saviour himself , and by his apostles .
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On the Testimony of the Jews to the Person of Christ . Let . 4 . 2 * 7
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tree of life , but the angel of the Lord hath gi ve ** me X ^ IS branch , as thy last refreshment . " And the dying Adam took the branch ,
and rejoiced . He smelt on it the perfume of paradise ; and his soul was raised by it . «* My children , " said he , " eternal lift ? doth not dwell for us on this
earth : I die , and ye shall follow me : but on this plant , I breathe the breath of another world ; [ smell the perfume of an higher paradise : ' * and his eye became dim , and his spirit passed « from him , upon the branch of the tree of life .
Adam ' s children buried their father , and wept for him thirty days ; but Seth wept not . He planted the branch on his father ' s grave , and called it the branch
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of the new life , ; of the resurrection from the sleep of death . And the small ' branch grew , and became a Jpfty tree * and all the children of Adam strength * encd themselves on it , with the consolation of the other life . Jt
thus passed down to the follow , ing generations . It blossomed beautifully in the garden of David * till his foolish son , began to doubt of immortality ; the branch then withered , but its blossoms came
among other pepple . AnrJ as it came to pass tfyat the teacher of immortality gave up his holy life upon a trunk of this tree , behold , there streamed from it the perfume of resurrection , among afi the nations of the
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1808, page 257, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2392/page/29/
