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for Got ? Will-ye talk deceitfully for Mm ? 'Will ye accept his person ?" ® * ' God * who at sundry times and in divers manners ^ spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets ,
hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son , —who being the brightness of his glory , and the express image of his ( God ' s ) person . " t The individual personality of the Divine Being * that is , that God is one person , and not three , is an idea that is kept up in
all the language of the Old and New Testament respecting him . The proper name of the God of the Old Testaments , and which is expressive of his self-existence , is Jehovah . * ' I am Jehovah , that is my name , and mi / glory will I not give to' another . " !
This surely is the language of an individual person , and not of a nature common to a plurality of persons , or of one person in the Godhead partaking of the Divine nature and perfections in common and equally with other divine persons in the Godhead ;
but of a single person possessing in himself alone , supreme and unrivalled Deity , a glory peculiar to himself * which he will not give to , and whicli cannot be possessed by any other person or being whatever- <* I am Jehovah ^ nd there is non e else , there is no God besides me . " § " That men may know that thou , whose name alone
is Jehovah , art the most high over all the earth . || " Jehovah , the peculiar name of God , admits of no plural , nor can it admit of any plural or neuter pronouns as its substitute ; such a substitution would be highly improper , and would convey an erroneous idea . Accordingly , in every passage in the Old Testament where Jehovah
is represented as speaking , or as spoken to , or as spoken of , the personal pronouns / , me , thow , he and him , are invariably used , as the representatives of that name ; nor could it be otherwise .
consistently with the nature of things or of language . Such is the case also with respect to the word God as the proper name of the Divine Being in the New Testament . A plural or * Job xiii . 7 8 . "J" Hebrews I . 1—3 . JIsaiah xlii . 8 . & Ibid . tlIv . 5 . if Psalm Ixxxiii . 18 .
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neuter prono ^ B then casino ! possibly be its substitute * B # n e it will follow that Jehovah , God , is a person * and one person only , not , three ; and thatt
person the New Testament , in the most explicit and direct terms ? informs us , is the Father . i 6 There is one God which is the Father , one God
and Father of all , who is above all * and through all , and in you all . * ' Ml Wafdlaw indeed alleges , that the Hebrew word Q * n ^ H God , has a plural termination - and he renders Deut . vL 49 66 Hear , O Israel , Jehovah our Gods
( Aleim ) is one Jehovah . " * But in so doing , he has acted just as absurdly as our translators have done , in applying the word Gods to a calf and to an old man .-f But I observe ,-1 . That
this must be an erroneous renderings because it is inconsistent with itself , and perverts the design of the writer ; for if Jehovah be one Jehovah , he cannot be our Gods 9 and if he be our
Gods 9 he cannot be one Jehovaho The design of the writer was , as is very evident , to assert the absolute unity of the God of Israel , but this rendering contradicts that position , by asserting that he is more than one . 2 . This
rendering proves too much , for If it prove any thing , it is not that there is a plurality of persons in God , but that there are a plurality of Gods ; and , had it been uniformly adopted by our translators , the Bible would have been
a system of the grossest polytheism * 3 . Our Loi * d and his apostles , in citing passages from the Old Testament , and this in particular where the word O * n ^ fc * occurs , as the name of the Divine Being , uniformly render it !> y
the singular noun ® eo $ v God ^ and never by the plural ® soi , Gods ; but surely they would not have so done , if the word had contained in it such a profound mystery as that of the Trinity .
Having proved that God is a person , which was tlie point to be proved , it will necessarily follow , that the Holy Spirit , if it be the Spirit of God , is the spirit of a person , and , consequently , not itself a person distinct from him whose spirit it is . This leads nie to observe .
* Page 12 . j f Exodw 8 xxxii . 4 , anet 1 Samuel xxviii . 13 , 14 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1818, page 36, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2472/page/36/
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