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deed renewed , and a new set of trustees appointed . I wish to ask you , Mr-Editor , from whom the application ought to come ? Perhaps a Repository containing this letter , sent to the respectable minister who has , I
understand , long officiated there , might be sufficient as I conceive ; although , from the peculiar circumstances of the case , he may have been prevented by motives of delicacy from naming it , this public notice of it will be a sufficient sanction for his now doing so , and enable him to transmit to his successor
a chapel as completely the property of the old Dissenting interest , as it was when he first entered it , which , I humbly submit , it is his duty to do . A CONSTANT READER .
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Spirit , as we have seen , is not a personalname , and therefore it cannot be designed to represent a person , or to convey the idea of personality . The Holy Spirit is never represented as
speaking individually , but always as speaking either by the mouth of Isaiah or Jeremiah , or some other prophet . Here , therefore , it evidently means no more than that the person uttering these words , spake them under the influence of an immediate Divine
inspiration , as the old prophets are said by Peter to have spoken as they were moved by the Holy Spirit : and the writer to the Hebrews tells us , that it was God that spake by those prophets , ( not God the Holy Ghost , but God the Father *) who hath , as it is added , in these last days spoken to us by his Son . Will it be contended , that the words
in question were uttered by two distinct individual persons , first , distinctly by the Holy Spirit , and then by an inspired prophet , and that those present distinctly heard the two voices ? No one , I suppose , would venture to adopt so strange a position , and if any one were to adopt it , most certain it is ,
that in support of it i ? o evidence could be adduced . They must , then , have been the words of one individual person , and that person could not be the Holy Spirit , unless he appeared personally amongst them , at least by an audible voice which they must have heard , and which would have indicated a
personal presence . If when the Scriptures use the expressions , " the Holy Spirit spake , " or , " the Holy Spirit said , " it means , that it did so personally , ( as it must , if the ascription of these actions to it prove its personality , ) it
would set aside as unnecessary the inspiration of the prophets , both of the Old and New Testament ; for what necessity could there be to inspire them to deliver that which the Holy Spirit himself personally delivered ? But if the words under consideration were
spoken by a prophet , they were not spoken personally by . the Holy Spirit , and can only be ascribed to it , as that by which that prophet was inspired , and by the motion of which he spake . Secondly , on the words , Separate me , ( or to me , ) Barnabas and Saul * for the work whereunto / have called
them : So they being sent forth by the Holy Spirit , departed , " &c . I observe *
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Mr . Marsom on the Deity of the Holy Spirit *—Letter III . 187
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Letters by Mr . Marsom in Reply to Mr . Ward law ' s Arguments for the Deity of the Holy Spirit . Letter 1 IL
Sir , March 5 , 1818 . BUT we proceed to consider the arguments of Mr . Ward law , founded on other passages of Scripture , in support of his hypothesis . The first of these is Acts xiii . 2 , 4 : tc As they ministered to the Lord and fasted , the Holy Spirit said , Separate me ( to me , or for me ) Barnabas and Saul , for the work whereunto I have called them
£ > o they being sent forth by the Holy Spirit , departed unto Seleucia . " His remark on these words is as follows : 4 € Surely no words could convey the idea of personality more clearly and
explicitly Ihan these . The Holy Spirit calls Barnabas and Saul to a particular 'work ; and commands others to set them apart to that work . They are accordingly set apart for him ; and they are then sent forth by him . "
On this passage I observe , first , that when the Holy Spirit is here said to speak , that this cannot be understood of the Holy Spirit personally , but must be understood of its speaking by the instrumentality of some proper
person . 'I he Holy Spirit said : how did the Holy Spirit say this ? Undoubtedly jby the mouth of one of the prophets then present ; for it will not be pretended that the voice of the Holy Spirit was ever heard personally speaking , as the voice of Jehovah is said to have been heartjt b y the Israelites at Mount Sinai . Besides the noun
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1818, page 187, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2474/page/35/
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