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«} ue season ; and I will , serid grass in the HsUte for ] tbe cattle ** - " This , too , when Moses , like Jesus , was announcing his departure from the scene of bis divine legation . It is also worthy of repnark tliat , strong as the personification of the Holy Spirit is in the text , aad in other passages , which led by slow degrees to
the imagination ot a third person , one of an imaginary Trinity * ryefc , even tins Comforter , iius emanation from the Deity , was to be powerless , except as instructed from abpve . Vejr . 13 : " Wlien he , the Spirit of Truth , i& come , he will guide you into -all truth , for he shall not speak of Mfmelfi , but whatsoever he shall hear .
that shall he speak . " Not of himself ! in some dudgeon murmurs a Trinitarian . Consult the Athanasian Creed . This might have done , Sir i before the Reformation ; but , since the Bible , then a prohibited book , has become the religion of Protestants , we do not
; seek in human compositions the articles of that faith which is to be the ground of our salvation . . I admit , and rejoice , that there are grades of orthodoxy , and it is possible that , if my respondent be not a high re $£ lusioni $ t , he . may have the grace to mitigate his zeal in some such terms
m , Iam not in love with its damnatory clauses , but if the leading articles of that Creed be not tenaciously pre-Asisfcd * Infidelity , sooner or later , ram-^ aot , or ambushed , will set wide the gates of hell to prevail against the church / ' , . ,- --. " . r ,. :: / i--. ¦ :
-.-- . ^¦ ¦ Hx : . - . ' .. . BREVIS . 5 v 6- The general argument is strengthened by chap , xiv ^ iIS , &c .: €€ I will pray the Father , and he shall give you another Comforter ; even the Spirit of Truth ;*?—ralso by verse 26 : The Comforter , which is the Holy
< iho 8 t > [ Spir it , j whom the father will -send in oxty nanoe . ^ . The orthodox , la pressing a single ( explainable ) text joto &eir « eimce , j and taking their attend \ fpotx > M > iiau « t not Batter them-^ 0 ii ^ Wm $ Hbe varioiU 3 others which h £ frX ( U # wx 4 he i subje ^ wiU go uuconr eidererf , or not be &oiight mtp contact jwith it , when o ^ vipu 6 % iadispenaable lio Jbe tomjeOiKtmcticai of it . , >
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412 Awiientteity 6 f Baptismal Commission .
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• ^ . fe * ^ ' ' ¦ - ' " ' <\ ^ h ^ Jki ^ f ^ IT vvili afford pleasure to every in-X quirter after . evancelieal truth , to find that the authenticity of the Baptismal Con ^ mission , is likely to meet wHh th&k discussion in your truly
Catholic pages , which so important a subject of biblical criticism impetioi ^ l y de « i ^ nd 3 n » - tliye hand of every Christian . With & He w , and solely-with a view to so desirable ; & resMt , permit me to offer a few remarks on the Re
view of my anonymotis challenge to investigation . . The attestation to the genuineness pf the controverted passage , is eq > n fessedly not less than that of every MS . and Version extant . Without stopping to advert to the good or ffl grace with whidb such an asiimadyer
^ io » as remark precedes may be naade in the quarter whence it comes , or attempting to weaken the remark itself by any observation ob the date of $ he publication of the Gospel in jvbieh tie text oeeurs , I shall only observe , that the ground of objection I take to its authenticity , is its utter irreconcileableness with what I deem
an incontrovertible fact ; ; The subsequent insinuation might therefore have been spared . Dr . V ^ atts expressly recognizes the fact on which I build the argument . Mr . Tyrwhitt , with the Reviewer , leaving the Commission unquestioned , explains it , I must not say away , as well as he can .
Mr . Belsham gives no decided opinion upon the point . - Thelleviewer 4 ow proceeds again in hi « Ovturn person , and aays , * There is no proof whatever that any specific form of baptism was prescribed by our
Lord to \ m apostle ^ " Joining issue with him in good set terms , 1 repeat , there is such proof , laid point to it over ; m& over again with my finger , in the Acts of the Apostles . :
JHis argument upon the ** . meitiorable passage /* seems to m ^ to proceed pn a mi 8 C n&trufctidii of ^ texts falsely understood / 1 . ^ Eo 4 ite ( JeMf ^? m ^ eli as to the Christian ^ , the itiile oSith * Holy Spirit ^ the Spmt of the JLord , was as fainUiar : m titfcat ; i > f JTeBov ^ h itself . Wbdu : iJhe - '^ f ^ iei «^^ eM ^ $# |^ r ^| biire ^< re ^ plied jto , I ? tiul , i ^ . tnew ^ pdsi marked by m ^ mn ^ fmsm ^ njfean that they hud iTi ) t hewd of any
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1820, page 412, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2490/page/32/
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