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JHE YORKSHIRE CLERGYMANS REPJLV , TO " A LAYMAN ^ O 5 T SUBSCRIPTION TO THE 39 ARTICLES . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
Sheffield , Feb . S , 1808 . MU . EDITOR , Your correspondent , a Layman , " ( ML Repos . for Jan . vol . iii . P ; 28 . ) is surely in jest when he attempts to explain the different obligations a clergyman is subject
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The Yorkshire Clergyman on Subscription . 259
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terms , to denote a distinction of nature , it is incumbent on those , who imagine that there is such a distinction marked out in the three last , to determine on what
it is founded * * The high priests had n
on the cross , laugh at him , for having pretended to be the son of God , the king of Israel : and the centurion who , seeing the convulsions of the earth , at the time that
Jesus expired , could have no other idea , than that he was a man highly beloved- of God , and the person , to whom the term son of God , which he had heard
so often from the Jews , ought to be applied . The apostle Peter uses the same language as the high priests , when lie declares his belief , that Jesus is the Christ , the son of the living God . But that neither he , nor xhe apostles , understood by the
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term , a being equal to God , is evident , because they all along expected a temporal kingdom ; and at the death of Christ , two of them speak the language of the rest , that he was really a great prophet , and that they did expect him to have been the redeemer of
Israel . i Should a doubt still remain in your mind , on the meaning of this term , give me leave to remove it entirely by the words of our Saviour , He had been
accused by the Jews of making himself God . His answer is remarkable : *• ' If I had appropriated to myself the term God , it would have been excuseable ; for this term is applied in scripture to those men , to whom , like myself , the word of God came : but I did not say that I was God . I
said only , that I was the son of God / ' Hence it is evident , that the term son of God is inferior to God , a title which had been given to men ; and therefore Christ himself entirely contradicts your position , that by calling himself son of God , he professed himself to be God and equal with God . I remain ,
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to , by subscribing the articles * and by receiving ordination ,- — ci The subscriber , " ( says he )* ' by fixing his name clown , in writing , testifies only , that &t that time he assents to the 3 J ? articles : he does not say , he believes them /'
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1808, page 259, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2392/page/31/
