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called lbr ,.. $ ifc regar ^ totter case . But was it equitably canea a " misrepresentation" ? I continue to thinft that it was ; because , in a professedly calm and dispassionate investigatioii , it is not fair to fc * ke our representations of a sentiment from the extravagant amplifications and exaggerations of rhetorical authors , whose taste led them , in other instances as
well as in this , to sacrifice the strict accuracy of truth in order to produce a striking effect . Yet I do not fully approve of the ) language which I used ; and , if the passage could be . written again , I would try to find some milder terms of disapprobation . I likewise
think it to be hazarding no improbable assertion , to . say that , if my venerated friend , Dr . Edward Williams , were now alive , he would readily have joined in this declaration . If now , Sir , I may hope that the
patience of your readers can indulge me $ o . far , I will transcribe some paragraphs from a well-known , highly esteemed , and unquestionably orthodox divine ; the one whose statements may be regarded , probably more than those of any other writer , as a fair representation of the sentiments held
by the majority of Calvinistic divines , particularly the Nonconformists of England and the Presbyterians of Scotland and America , from the era of the Reformation ( and indeed long before ) to the present time;—Dr .
John Owen . The quotation will shew in what manner the most judicious and approved writers of this , class have thought it fit and scriptural to represent their doctrine , on the union of the human and the divine natures
in the person of Christ . " This union , the ancient church affirmed to be naade f ccTpaTcrccn ; , without any change in the person of the Son of God , which the Divine Nature is not subject to ; < % 8 * at /> £ T 6 >? , with a distinction Qf natures , but without any division of them by separate subsistences ; curvyxv-* # < , without mixture or confusion :
t o ^ PT **;* without separation or distance ; ana \ & < r *< k > $ (» s , substantially , because it W&p of two substances or essences in the &&tie person , In opposition to all accicfetrtal fkrion ; as « the fulness of the Gtotfhi&d dw * lt in him bodily . V— -
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* ' Each preserve own natural , essential properties , entirely to and in itself ; without mixture ; withom composition or confusion ; without such a real communication of the one to the other , as that the one should become thfc subject of the properties of the other The Deity , in the abstract , is not made the humanity ; nor on the Contrary . The Divine Nature is not fey this union made temporary , Anite , limited , subject to
passion or alteration : nor is the human nature rendered immense , infinite , omnipotent . Unless this be granted , there wiil not be two natures in Christ , a diving and a human ; nor indeed either of them : but somewhat else , composed
of both . " Owen ' s Chrtstologta , chap , xviii . One of the Reviewers whom Benevolus quotes , represents me as having used " compliments" towards some of the writers whose opinions I have opposed , I reaHy cannot acknowledge
myself chargeable with this fault Compliments , understanding by the term expressions of honour or respect bordering upon the adulatory or exaggerated style , I should think miserably out of place in a serious discussion of the most important religious subjects . Whatever language of respect I have used in relation to any of those whose doctrines or arguments I
have disputed , has been no more than what I sincerely believe to be required by truth and uprightness . My situation is a little remarkable , but by no means unexampled . White your worthy correspondent has taken so much pains to convict me of an uncharitable spirit ; another periodical work has made me the object of thundering
rebukes , for undue " complacency / — * excessive liberality /*—and even " abandonment of principle . " ' But I shall say , with the poet , apuvto | & * euo-ifAo , tcapToc and comfort itojfe ^ lf with the conscientious persu&sion that both classes of my reprover ^ are mistak en . This letter has run but to a much
greater length than I expected . J must , therefore , defer tiff the npxt month my reques t for tjbi ^ ' admission of what I inw have tp reply to nty learned ifriend l ) r : Jones . J / K SMn « L . ¦
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to the nature doth its " 38 Dr . J . A Smith tn reply to Remari * oh Ms Script ure TeMufonyi ?
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1822, page 38, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2508/page/38/
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