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itieht , what I should say , and what I should speak . Whatsoever I speak there * - fore , even as the Father said unto me , $ 6 I spfeak . ' John xii . 49 , 50 . That ii did not enable him to bear any sufferings , is ib be collected , not only from there being no proof or assertion that it did , bui from the account given us of his
suffering in the garden , jiist before his crucifixion , when the evangelist informs us , Luke xx . 43 , that * there appeared an Angel unto him from heaven strengthening him ; which would have been both absurtl and useless , if the divine Logos had enabled him to bfear his sufferings . What a lamentable exhibition is made by this
text , upon the Trinitarian hypothesis of the incarnatioti , of a created being ^ fi-feiigthening kis fcrfeaior ,- —of a poor finite angel of limited powers , a being hdt fevefi pure in the sight of his dbd , flor free from the charge of folly before him , strengthening Omnipotence and
dmhiscience ! Some Trinitarians , perhaps , Wotlid contend , that it was only the human , nature of our Lord that was strengthened by the angel . But in the first place , the evangelist does not say so , but speaks of our Lord generally and entirely ; and , so
far from confining what he says to a part of him , that is , to one particular nature , does not appear from , any part of his writings to have had the least idea of our Lord ' s having two natures . What right have we then to add to his words mere
suppositions , made expressly to favour an hypothesis of our own ? Secondly , all that constituted our Lord , even according to the Trinitarian doctrine , made but one person ; therefore when the evangelist speaks of him , he must be understood to speak of that persoh , and not of any
particular part ; of him , unless lie tells us so , which life has hot done . 'jWiifcJlv , as according to the Trinitarian ^ , the Divine N £ tUre was inseparably united to the liftman hature , what occasiofa could th £ fre Bfe to send an angel from hfeaven to s * r £ ngtheft the Jiuman nature ^ When 1 t fikd att-eaay almighty power always uni&a
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its suifering ^ , the Sacrfed Wfititifes being qxatk titebt iibdn trie ^ tl 6 |^ 6 i 6 f iiatiirfes iri Cforiit , aM the * Whiit ^ M 6 g on the contrary maintaining , tnat its assistance was absolutely rifecesSarf td enable the rhiman nature to beajr the Infinite J 3 u * nishihent , which , accbirdiiiS to them , the jiistitfc of thfe Supreme Being must otherwise riate inflicted upon the elect , wtio are redeemed a " nd saved by the death and sufferings of our Lord . The power 6 f the tUvinfc Nature theti ^ that is ,
almighty power , must , accordTi % to their hypothesis , have been ekfertecl . r rhe assistance of an angel , therefore , if it were considered merely a ^ superadded to that of almighty power , \ fcould ribt have been equal to the dust of the balance ; but when considered as strengthening Omnipotence , the absurdity is monstrous .
Who can wonder , that the great Newton should pronounce of such a a \>< ctriri £ , that the time would come , when it would be exploded , as ah absurdity Squat td transubstantiatioh ? That tim $ is now ,
thank God ! fdst ap'brd ^ thittf . Hie iljght is far sjjfettt , the day iS at hand , liideea hath already begith to dkvvn Upon lis , and will shine ihore arid morfc , till it arrives
At its meridian brightness . H « w few ^ verfc there in Sir Isaac fte $ ; tdn s tihie , who thought as he dii ! Hb \^ many thousands are there at present in this country only ! How few were the Unitarian places of worship within our own remembrance !—four or five , perhaps , in
the whole kingdom . At present there are few places of any magnitude without one ; and if we may forth a judgment from what we know buJrsfclveS , and hear from others , there may bfe some foundation for the report , tn £ t there ate more Unitarians within thfc Church , than out of it .
" The Unitarian system stands unfcncumberfed with any of tfce difficulties we have just been contemplating : considering our blessed Lord , thotlgjiilfe grieatest and most distinguished Or Odfl * s 3 i 63 s ^ ngers and t > rbr 3 lietfe , tb fee 4 man of like passions with buTselW * , eii ^ Ued -with exquisite sensibility bi mViM 9 dnd per&ct knowliedge of the ext ^ ttt df His Mproach-Itig sutferitigs , ari& . tfe ^ f ^ fer ^ f or A inoifaent overwhelmed wftft dtett ^^ , ^ the prospect df vVhat Kb ; wfei . so SJ » ji jb Unftergd , —it acfcnowl ^ ag ^ S Wm KibA and
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1820, page 362, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2489/page/38/
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