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    prayers tu CW for me . " Here ugaiu we find God and Jesus Christ spoken of as two distinct beings , in terms as clear and full as language can furnish . Illustration 5 th . Gen . iii . 15 : " The seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent ' s head . " This scripture I also think inapplicable to our subject .

    Illustration 6 th . 2 Cor . v . 19 : " God was in Christ reconciling the world to liimself . " Here Christ appears in his mediatorial office , reconciling us to the Father . Ver . 18 : ' All things are of God , who

    hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ , and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation ; " from which it appears , that God was in St . Paul and other men reconciling the world to himself , in the same munner that he

    was in Jesus , though not in the same degree ; for in the following verses he says , " God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself , not imputing their trespasses unto them , and hath committed unto us the word of

    reconciliation . Now then we are ambassadors for Christ ; as though God did beseech you by us , we pray you , in Christ's stead , be ye reconciled unto God . " From all which it evidently appears that Christ was the minister of God to us , and not God himself . Illustration 7 th . 1 John v . 7 : " There

    are three that bear record in heaven , the Father , the Word , and the Holy Ghost , and these three are one . " This text lias been admitted to be an interpolation , not by reputed heretics only , but by many learned men who were deemed orthodox divines .

    The Eclectic Review , that grand repository of reputed orthodox divinity , has given it up as untenable . The very learned Dr . Adam Clarke , and the late Dr . Doddridge , have both expressed their doubts of its authenticity ; and the present Bishop Tomline has declared it as his opinion that it is

    spurious . It has been omitted as spurious in several editions of the New Testament ; viz . by Luther , in his German Version ; by Erasmus , in two editions ; by AU

    dus , Griesbach and Neweome ; it does not appear in the most ancient versions ; it is not in any Latin MS . earlier than the 9 th century , nor in any Greek MS . earlier than the fifteenth , in the old English Bibles of Henry VUIth , Edward Vlth , and Elizabeth ,

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    it was either printed in small types or included in brackets , to denote its being of doubtftil authority , and was not printed as it now stands in the generally-received version , till some time about the years 1570 or 1580 : therefore , with such a weight of evidence

    against it , and seeing also that the doctrine k inculcates stands opposed to the greater part of the Old and New Testaments , surely its divine origin ought not to be insisted on , neither ought it to be quoted as a standard of faith , or as a test to determine

    controve . Illustration 8 th . John xvi . 28 : "I came forth from the Father and am come into the world \ again , I leave the- world and go to the Father . "

    This text requires very little comment ; for if Jesus came forth from the Father , then is he not the Father * and consequently not God , but a being as distinct from God , as any one being can be distinct from another .

    Illustration ° < th . 1 John iL 6 : "And he is the propitiation for our sins , and not for ours only , but for the sins of the whole world . " By taking this in connexion with the preceding verse , we find that Jesus Christ is described as our " advocate

    with the Father : " here again we have two distinct and separate beings $ one of whom is our advocate ; he pleads our cause with the Father ; he was made the minister of the new covenant unto us ; by his holy life , and by his obedience , even unto death , he became a perfect example to us > by him we were instructed in all our essential

    duties to God and man ; by the revelation of his gospel , and by the operation of the spirit of truth on the heart or mind of man , communicated through him , we are brought to repentance and amendment of life , and to a knowledge of that " only true God , " whom to know is life eternal . Therefore , as

    he is so eminently useful to us in a variety of ways , he may truly be said , in figurative language , to be propitious to us , or the propitiation for our sins . Illustration 10 thk Matt * xxviii . IS : " All power is given unto me in heaven and on earth . "

    This scripture also illustrates the superiority of God over Jesua Christ ; for , if all power was given tml > # }***'* it proves , that all po > tfer was mot Cerent in him , or po& ^ ssed by him in -hft

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    47 P Agreement x * f Quakersnand Unitarians .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1821, page 470, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2503/page/30/