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AH ? . V . —The Adoration of our Lord Jesus Christ vindicated from the Charge of Idolatry ; a I ) iscourse delivered % n Wednesday Evening , April 11 , 1811 , at the Gtwcel Pit Meet , togs Hackney . ' By John P y $ Stptih , D : D . 8 vo * pp . 3 o ! 1 $ . 6 &iT \ Corider .
I ) r . Smith is very com mendable in purifying the old Gravel Pit meeting , so long the seat of heresy , with Jhe .. spicy , doctrines of the
Assembly ' s Catechism ; though he must take care lest in giving the ratimdie of reputed orthodoxy he feMnto language of an unsound M ^ of whjcfi the following definition qf the deity of Christ shews that be is in no little danger : —
" That the tiue and essential nature of tlfe One Infinite God was in an intioiaUg ^ d indissoluble manner , united to the ? man Jesus ; yet without any ttmfimbn of the divine and the human natures : that such an union was necessary to constitute the person of the Messiah , as described in the Jewish
Pjopbecies , an < J that for this reason , the Messiah Is the proper object of religious tioratten . * ¦ ' ## , Tliis Hypbtliesis , if we rightly ^ derstand it , qf which we are not i « ite stijre , is hpt tl ^ e old and true
orthodox notion ,, but it appears to * stb be abundantly absurd / and videtitl y unscriptural . We shall * jk e thi liberty of making two or ftree tiirpQTks upon it . - If * tKc . true and essential ' nature ^ G ddt ^ Svere united to the man J «*« y' » 9 ds to constitute pnp per * ^ n , tibt wholly « Divjne nor wholly ^ um * lH JD ^ i boi & qnce , ike two ma tures mubt hayc lost in their
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union their separate qualities ; dftij if this be not confusion it is Something like it , perhaps interfusion * The union between God and the man Jesus was " indissoluble : ' *—this is a further proof of interjusiori ) and on this principle what
may be predicated of one nature , may be predicated of both natcires ; and therefore if the Messiah # ie 3 « the divine nature must have died , < c for the union of the Divine nature with the huinan was neeessafif to constitute the person &f the
Messiahs' There is no alternative-A either the Messiah did not die ; or the tWo natures which constituted the Messiah did die . Did the Divinp nature withdraw from the human before death ? The unidii
then was not i 6 indissoluble , * and it was a mete man that'died , and here we arrive at the Unitarian , scbeme . How would ft Jc \ tr stare at thfe assertion , that tlie Jewish prophecies described l 3 | e Mes&fah as possessing u the tjr ^ e and essential nature of the On * Infinite God !"
There is something Sp extravagant in this , that uttered "by any but so grave and r ^ s ^ Ctable a man as Dr . Smith , it vrould scarcely appear to be seriotrt \ Is the Messiah the one only God ? This will nut be maintai n ^ d * .
When the Messiah was put to death , was the one only God still perfect ? This will not be deified r — -the one only God and the Messiah are therefore distinct beings : if Dr , Smith prove his point , he will have established two objects
of worship ! _ . ' , v The follovvhig are l ) r ^ ^ rn it h s arguments for the supreme worsbijp of the Messiah : " ; ^ „ ,, « i . He accepted religious adoration ^ % , He possessed and exercised the quaii *
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QfHTze Gentiles } and if practised upon GentJIe converts , practised likfe tfce other . Jewish ceremonies , as * &ft optional , \ ininapoitant rite .
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Review . — Smith on the Adoration of Christ . £ p §
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1811, page 619, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2421/page/43/
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