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it with the political arrangements of the Emperor of France ** I cannot close this address ,
without entering my protest against the very disingenuous manner in which Di \ Magee states the objections of the Unitarians , and of the author of the Letters upon Arianism in particular , against the popular doctrine of the creation of all things by Jesus Christ . I pass over his attributing to Mr .
? As a farther exemplification of the above , and likewise as a specimen of the acumen of the compilers of the ** Exposure , ' in distinguishing between u Unitarian blasphemy" and Trinitarian
orthodoxy , by their choice of this paragraph , originally written by Mr Belsham ; the publishers of this Address beg leave to refresh the memories of their fellow citizens , particularly those connected with the Glasgow Tract Society , with an extract from a sermon lately delivered by one of their most respectable members , in defence of the
divinity of Christ The preacher , in illustration of his assertions respecting the supreme divinity and underivedpower of Jesus Christ , expre > sed himself to the following effect : —Unitarians indeed allow that he possessed very extraordinary powers , but deny them to have been originally his own , and assert that all his power < md tvisdom was'delegated to hiin by God . Now , says the preacher , we know that a
person may be appointed to an office , but the abilities requisite to fulfil the duties of the office cannot be conferred . The king might nominate a child of two years old to the office of Lord High Chancellor of
Enzlandy but could the king communicate the abilities necessary to fulfil the duties of that high office f —In other words , God might appoint Jesus Christ to the office of Messiah , hut , the Almighty could not comn . unicate to his beloved Son the
qualifications necessary for performing the duties of the high and dignified office he had assigned hixn !—It is unspeakable Masphemy for a Unitarian to compare Jesus Christ , in any sense , to the Emperor of France ; hut it is evangelical orthodoxy for a Trinitarian to compare Jehovah , in the most unqualified sense , zo the King of Britain !
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Belsham interpretations of scripture which thatauthor has publicl y disavowed , as this
misrepresentation is probably the effect of ignorance and precipitation , rather than of design ; and I sincerel y wish that Tcould as easily exculpate the Teamed Professor upon
other occasions . Though Dr . Magee speaks of ' the language used throughout
the New Testament , respecting the creation of all things by Jesus Christ , ' * it is very certain that there are but nine passages in the whole New Testament which can possibly be strained , by the most ignorant and willing believer , to
express this doctrine . And of these nine > there are only four upon which any stress would be laid by a well-informed and candid judge . * It is a fact , and Dr .
* These texts are , ist , John i . 3 . 2 nd , John i- 10 . In order to draw an argument from these two passages , the word ( yivo / AOCi ) translated made , must be
understood in a sense different from that in which it is to be understood in any other passage of the New Testament , though it occurs upwards of seven hundred times . 3 d , l Cor . viii . 6 . is allowed to be little to the purpose . 4 th , Eph . iii . 9 . is a manifest interpolation ; and , if genuine , is explained even by
orthodox interpreters , of the new creation . ' 5 th , Col . i . 16 , 17 , is the text upon which the greatest stress is laid : but in this , when the apostle enters into the detail of things created , they are not natural objects , such as sun , moon , stars , earth , sea , &c . but artificial distinctions , viz . thrones , dominions , &c . And the cohclusion drawn , that he if
head over all things to the church , &c . is such as might naturally be expected from his being the founder of the nevr dispensation - but very different frorn what would properly follow from his being announced as the Creator of all things , the Maker and Lord of angels . 6 th , Heb . i . 2 . To make this argument available , the word ( a / o ^ y ^) translated worlds * must be taken in a sense which
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500 Reply to Dr . Magee . — To the Inquirer * after Christian Truth .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1813, page 500, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2431/page/12/
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