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sonification , making use of the various personal pronouns which occur in : it , in correspondence with the masculine noun ^ omforter / , which will easily account for all tbe personal properties and personal actions attributed to the Holy Spirit in this connexion , without
supposing or admitting its personality . That such language is properly used when any thing is personrfiefi that is not a person , Mr . Wardlaw readily admits , and gives a variety of instances of it in the Scriptures . 1 shall only add to them one other instance of the
strong language made . use of in such personification , Job xxviii . 12 , 15 , 22 : " But where is wisdojw to be found , and where is the place of understanding ? The depth -faith it is not in me : destruction and death say we
have heard the fame thereof with our ears" Such instances of personification are frequently to be met with in the Scriptures ; but as this is admitted , it does not require farther enlargement . The use of personal pronouns
and the ascription of personal pro- ? perties and personal actions to the Holy Spirit , in this passage , will afford no proof of its personality , unless it be 6 rst proved ( which I am persuaded it never can ) that comforter is the proper name of the Spirit , and not a personification . JOHN MARSOM .
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Sir , York , Feb . 7 , 1818-FEEL myself so greatly indebted I to the good wishes and kind intentions of an unknown friend , who fevoured me with an anonymous letter
by the post in August last , on the subject of Dr . Stock ' s late change of opinion , or conversion as it is called , that I should long since have expressed my sincere acknowledgments , if I could have formed the smallest
conjecture to whom my thanks were due . I have waited for some months in the vain hope of making the discovery , but as no light whatever has yet been thrown upon the subject , J
have no method left of expressing my gratitude ( for nothing I am persuaded could be kinder than the intention ) , but through the medium of the Monthly Repository .
My friend assumes it is an undeniable truth that Unitarianism , or what is erroneously termed Sociniauistn , is a system " qold qnd cheerjpss , " and
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on this ground is stated the axtren ^ solicitude evinced by Dr . §} ock ! $ lat § amiable friend for hi ^ bie ti ^ fap tor ' s conversion * Mr . Vernon is notlherefore represented as using any arguments in support of his opinion , for , who would labour to prove that two
and two make four ? But being extremely grateful to Dr . Stock for his affectionate gratuitous attendance , ( a proof surely that Unitarianism , however cold and cheerless in respect of a future world , does not produce hardness and insensibility to the sufferings and
distresses of our brethren in the oresent , ) solicits hiip iu the most earnest way to read carefully " the 1 st , 14 th , 15 th , 16 th and 17 th chapters of St . John , first with the supposition that your creed is rigjit , aud then taking it for granted that Jesus Christ is 1
very truly God and man . * The re ^ quest was complied with , but the opinions of the Doctor , as he afterwards told Mr . Yernon , remained the same . Mr . Vernon , with the deepest concern , replied to this declaration ,
' * Then Dr . Stock , I have yet one more favour , which I do most sincerely entreat you to grant , read these same chapters over again , and read them with previous devout prayer , first to your God and then to mine . —J am obliged , Dr . Stock , to make this distinction , for to me , God out of Christ
is a consuming fire . " * Here I would * It will be said , perhaps , that this is a scripture phrase , find it is true that it is metaphorically used by Moses , Deut . iv . 24 , and borrowed from him by the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews ; not , however , in either instance as a character of
the ever-blessed God ; they could not so flatly have contradicted the whole tenor of their writings , but applied to the acfis of his government Moses , before his final departure out of this world , is solemnly yvarnjng * the Israelites of what would be the fatal consequences of , their
relapsinginto idolatry , their excision as a nation ; and the writer to the Hebrews is in like rnanner forewarning- the Christian converts , that their apostacy would issue in their total destruction in the approaching-
calamities coming- on their court try : God is therefore called a consuming fire , figuratively , because the neglect of his word by Moses their lawgiver , < and ! by Jesus the : r Messiah , would necessarily be attended with the most destructive and fatal effects . If the highly figurative phraseology of eastern writer * is . to be takek out of its
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112 Mrs * CappeonDr . Stock ' sConversion to Trinitariani&n
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1818, page 112, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2473/page/32/
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