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performed the iniraele on Bar-Jesus . Now be no more performed it , strictly speaking , than Jeremiah ( Jer . i . 10 ) •' rooted out kingdoms and nations , and pulled down , and destroyed , and threw down , and builded , and planted . " He was not the power , but the agtnt ;
did not actually perform the miraele , but merely declared that it would take place . He spoke by inspiration , and prophecy , aad what he spoke , God performed , by whom alone all miracles are performed , whether through the agency of the prophets , Jesus
Christ , or the apostles . ** And now , " says the apostle , " heholcl , the hand of the Lord is upon thee , and thou shalt be blind , not seeing the sun for a season . And immediately * there feU on him a mist and a darkness , and he went about seeking some to lead him . " ( Acts xiii . 11 . )
The Inquirer ' s argument , therefore , is a baseless fabric : and all that human governments can do in cases of blasphemy is , to leave the blasphemer to that God to wham alane lie is
accountable . If they have the spirit of inspiration , let them declare , as the apostle Paul did , what punishment God will inflict upon him . But if they have not such a spirit , let them produce the
Christian precept authorizing his punishment by the civil power . If they cannot produce such a precept , and still claim the right to punish in such cases , then let them know that they themselves are blasphemers , wresting from God his undoubted prerogative , and bidding defiance to his holy Taws . F . K .
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It is sufficient to advert to the tenets of the $ elf-ciassed orthodox upon the subject of their Trinity , without transferring to ypur pages the revolting
jargon of the Athanasian Creed ? which embodies and arrays tfcetn in all the splendour of obscurity , and spars many flights beyond the " darkness visible ' Qf our immortal bard .
I would inquire , then , at ox \ ce , to simplify a rather abstruse subject , if the three persons in the Trinity be coeternal , how could one be begotten of another ; and how -eould a third proceed from the two others ? There is
< l flat contradiction m either proposition . Their co-eternity involves , beyond the possibility of cavil , the self-e ^ istejice of each individual composing this triune divinity . A child , $ ne would suppose , m ^ y comprehend this ; yet what
multitudes of gjrown children have minds inaccessible to so plain a statement ! So difficult is \ t for the soundest understanding to escape from the thraldom of prejudices coeval with the nursery . be
If , then , tUe ^ e tfrre e co-eternal , self-existent Beings , and co-equal , how can the numerical deduction be avoided that there are three Gods ^ each independent of the others , because alike omnipotent ? ac |
A popular ^ ccus ^ tion v * inced against the poov , ^ corrigible Unitarians is , thftt , i * contending for the simple humanity of our Saviour , we tjethrpne pur Qod , ai } d \ t > has been urged upon the write ? with £ very imposing solemnity ; but may it not be
retorted \ yit \\ less assumption and more effect ? If human affairs ju $ y ^ p adduced in illustration of divine , J may safely ask the Trinitarians whether any monarch , in or put of Christendom ,
would not fee } himself dethroned by such a diifusipi } of the regal PQ \ yer as th ?* t system eipb ^ cep , wliic { i transforms * md fritter the i * Httiy Qne" pf the Old Testament \ lf \ tQ > vh ^ t t } iey term the Holy Trinity pf the new
dispeiissittiqn ? It i $ the T * wta ? teps , therefore , who would dethrone their Gpd , and not they who conscientiousl y aqtd devoutly rally found to invaded thrpne , pmelaimifig tfee pce ^ jie of fri * reign and power iudHsibfc , $ qd not tp be wielded in co-partnership .
Soame Jenyns , I think , whose eccentric volume on Christianity caused some bustle if * ite #£ y > assigns as a
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Brief Notes on tfre Bible . No . XVII . Isaiah xlii , 3 : " X 3 m the Lord ; that is my name ; an « J my gjory wiU I not give to another , "
SU CH ie the emphatic and cautionary declaration of our heavenly Father ; and it might be thought to Jmve excluded for ever fropn the roindp of all who acknowledged its divine authority any tendency to idolatrons
° r polyt ^ eistip notions ; yet there 13 « jt s upeF-abounding sect of very sincere Chrietianp who profess not only to extend his glory tp fWQtber , but even , m the neat language of Mr . Vqx , % & reduce the inonanffiy of be ^ yeqi tQ 9 m a nstocracy .
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Brief Notes on , the Bible . No * XVIL 219
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1821, page 220, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2499/page/27/
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