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(^ m ^ r ^^ Gr i a # 4 our % d ? m sending aft angel , as he had occasionally done before in the ca $ e of others of vthe prbphets and holy m ^ n of old , to comfort and sCrfcngthen hira . "—Pp . 56—60 . f l& £ « Uf » w | flg remarks upoiji tfce Trinitarian inquiry hbvy a mm CW judge the world , appear to us very just :
" It is a common thing for writers of this description to atiege , that a mere man g $ ftnot jjp this , and a mere map cannot dp t ) iai ; hut they well know that this fe not jfoe true question , —but what God , who is omnipotent and omniscient ,
can empower and enable one of the human race to perform . A mere man , we well know , cannot raise the dead ; and yet both Elijah and Elisha , when commissioned and enabled by the Most High , did this under the old dispensation ; and both Peter and Paul , under the new . A
mere man cannot know the heart or the thoughts of any other man , and ' yet one of the highly-favoured prophets whom I have just mentioned , was empowered to know the heart ab <} the thoughts of his servant Qehaii , when at a distance from
him ; an £ also to know whatever the king of Syria did , even in his bed-chamber . The same great Being who thus enabled him Jo know the thoughts of one or two persons , could unquestionably have enabled him to know the thoughts of as many others as he pleased ; nay , if such
was his sovereign will , of the whole human race . However some may be startled at this upon the first view , yet the denial of it would amount to nothing less than prescribing bounds to Omnipotence , and limiting the Holy One of Israel . It would be reviving the old cry of unbelief — Gan God furnish a table in the
wilderness ? Can he give bread also ? Can he provide flesh for his people ? " Psalm Ixxviii . 19 , 120 . What we are here to consider is , whether the Almighty God ^ anA ( empower Und enable the blessed . Jesus , in a glorified state , with his mental powers enlarged and improved , beyond all that the utmost stretch of the human
intellect in this present infant and imperfect state can form a conception off to know the thoughts , and read the hearts and past actions of the whole human rade , if this should be necessary to k m . a _ _ _ i r
qualify him to pass sentence upon every one of them , either at the saime t ? me , or within a given spieet ifcflonger or shorter duration , as shaH appear to his Infinite wisdom to be for ^ JWs&fc Thte bciwer , vast and et ^ raprdinaiy ^ a it may Appear , would lw ^ m ^ ilt ^/^ i } to ' compiatfSfyi with Omnipotetice aiid Omniwience , not equal to a grain of ' san ^ , Compared to
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ym e ww B < & ? Qf ? $ m ssafce " - ?^¦ & »> 79 . , i ¦• • - j r V -. ; . ¦ ¦' . , -yr * * : ' ¦*? Wei can take only another extraeit ' r it is on the consistency ( $ && v m $ k of Christ wi ^ ftp \ fjS \ ff ^^^ i ^ st « You remark , that < you have arrlv ^ at the end of your paper without urging those ; evidences of the Deity o # ' C&ri&t
which arise from the ascription to hijn of every name , title , attribute , work and honour , of Deity . * Now really ,, my deai * Sir , 1 must say , that I cannot find any where , that all these things have been ascribed to him , greatly as he has been honoured and exalted by bis Father and our Father , by his God and our God .
Where is he ever declared to have originally , and inherently , life or power in himself ? Is he any where represented as having either , except by communication from , and as the gift of , his Father ? Can he he said to have all the attributes of Deity ascribed to him , when one of
the most essential of them , namely omniscience , is denied to him , upon no less authority than his own , by his expressly declaring that he did not know the day of judgment , and that no one knew it , but his Father only ? When his , possession of another equally essential attribute of Deity , that is to say , omnipotence , is
likewise negatived upon the same authority : < I can of mine own Self do nothing' ? John v . 30 . Is any thing like this ever said qf the Father ? And again , Luke xx . 23 : * To sit pn my right hand , and on my left , is not mine to give ; but it shall be giveu to them for whom it is
prepared by my Father ;* not by the Father , Son and Holy Ghost , nor by the Trinity , a term not to be found at all in the Scriptures , nor by God , which , it would have been pretended , included all the three persons who have been supposed to constitute the Godhead ; but by the Father . Lastly , when it is fully and expressly stated , that his kingdom , and by
consequence the authority and power connected with it , are not to be eternal ; it being declared in the clearest and most explicit terms by the Apostle Paul , that this his kingdom , long as it is to last , and glorious as it Is to be , is to" have an end , when , the apostle informs us , he is to deliver it up ; arid' doe § not say to God , — -which the Trinitarians perhaps God , — -which the Trinitarians perhaps
might have contended / as has just bra } remarked , mejant their three supnos&j persons Jin the Go $ nead . though it Would have been attended with th ^ av ^ wSrcl - ness of averring' a delivery bf TrBf ^ 'ikihgdom by himself to hlm ^ elf ^ - ^ ii ^ iplP tides foe sky , to thfe TririkV , nbtf ^| BrFiitherl feon and Holy Ghqsf , \ AW & %£% a | ie and K ^ y '<^ Q » t , ' ettty ^ VMfty ing ihem to be perSdns in "thfe Godhead
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Review . —A §< mrisfa $ t £ e ( fc £$ jg Dtfmcgef Unitarianism . 3 #£
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1820, page 363, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2489/page/39/
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