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will endeavour to explain them in their original purity , according to the uniform declarations of the unadulterated Bible . " But this latitude , it will be said , will produce almost as many creeds as there are men . I think , on the contrary , that it will soon terminate
in the universal reception of the good word of truth , and lead all men to emb race that holy church , in which there is no spot , nor wrinkle , nor any such thing . Voltaire , notwithstanding his great infidelity , believed that there is
one God , one great and good God , the God of all beings , of all worlds , and of all ages :. and , had he not supposed , without making that inquiry which became him , that the Trinity and some other unfounded doctrines were
contained in the Bible ; or , had he perc * eived that the Divine Unity , and that true holiness , &c . contained in the New Testament , were the real doctrines which the Lord Jesus taught , he never could have become an infidel , nor have ridiculed what he did not rightly examine , and therefore did not
understand , ^ NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIAN .
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Sir , August 1 , 1816 . 1 HAVE heard it occasionally remarked , that at one period of the history of the Christian church , it was in agitation , by some synod or council , to place the Virgin Mary as a person
of the Trinity , in the room of the Holy Ghost . In referring to the remarks of Theototus , M . Repos . Vol . VI . page 399 , I find some confirmation of it , as represented by the Novogorod Idol , and in the censures of such a
Trinity by the Arabian Impostor : but setting aside such authorities , I should be glad to be informed by your more learned readers , if there be any other and better authority for such an assumption . J . W .
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Sir , August 2 , 1816 . IN this our sad season of logomachy , may I take the liberty of requesting from some of your more polemically given Correspondents , the proper name lor a denomination of fellow
interrogators with Pilate— " What is the truth ? " Who , ( not more firmly assured qf the existence < tf the Christ than of the divinity qf his mission J , while , otv the one hand , sitting at the feet or Jesus and hearing &t > m hift own lips
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that he knew not the precise date of event which he was yet empowered to predict ( Mark xiii . 32 ); that he might well assume the very title about which so much controversy has arisen , an ( j found his apology for assuming it on the ground that other missionaries of God had in Elohim arrogated a higher one than he did in that ot Ben Elohim John x . 36 ; that of himself he coiddfo nothing , viii . 54 ; that if he bare witness of himself his witness were not true v . 31 ; that the very words he spake * he spake not of himself xii . 49 , xiv . io « hearing him , in short , referring every thing he said , and did , and was , as
unequivocally , as invariably , as absolutely to that Being whom he . called his Father , as any other pious man whom he had taught to address by the same endearing appellation could have done : —then superadding to this unimpeachable testimony the still ( if possible ) more unambiguous , attestations of the Most Highest Himself at
the several periods of his baptism , transfiguration and crucifixion , so admirably adapted in kind and in degree to the " beloved Son , " in whom of all human kind God deigned to express himself emphatically " well pleased , " so palpably infra dig . to a Being of an infinitely superior order : —and fast and
least , recollecting the remarkable idcidents of the temptation , when this heavenly personage is accosted by another ( whom later ages have almost invested with the character of omniscient ) as a " Son of God , " who might haply not only be seduced from his allegiance to his Father by such a
consideration as the kingdoms of this atom of the universe , yclept our world , but to transfer it , and with it the homage of religious worship , to his seducer , as the donor of them : —who , ruminative I say over thus much , and more that might be . adduced of a kindred description , regard the Christ in no other light the Son of God than as figuratively so constituted , or at most so miraculously born as no other human being ever was before him . Yet , on the other hand , reading the proem of St . Joiji * Gospel , surprising as they think they do th « interpolation of the repo rter ai the 16 th verse of his third chapter , n <*
to mention a multitude of apportion turns and probable emendations , wjj ckaatl y indicative as they hold ot hiatonatx ' s construction of the w
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512 Difficulties in the Scriptural Representations of Christ .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1816, page 512, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2456/page/12/
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