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" After being learning and rational piety of the old * church-divines ; ( whose doctrinal creed * neither constituted their whole of relbgion , nor narrowed the- expaasiyeness of their Christian affection)—* after witnessing their profound and practical knowledge of the human heart—their milk of
human kindness—their , zeal for things pertaining to salvation , not for strifes of words and oppositions of . science—their language and their thoughts alike tinctured with the study * of their Bibles , — we seem dropping from ' the pure
empyrean' to a region of fen and fog 5 when we light on this supercilious Doctor of school-divinity C tout hvrisse de Grec tout bouffi < i ? arrogance ) ';¦ this proud , secular , intolerant , and intermeddling priest ; this minion of a court and theologian of a college .
" Every thing in Bishop Horsley is bigoted and pedantic : he is no less wanting in comprehension of rniud than in enlargement of heart , His proficiency in the mathematics is unquestioned ; but , generally speaking , his knowledge , compounded of academical erudition and ecclesiastical theology , with a strong infusion of the reveries of the schoolmen and
the abstractions of Platonwm , was of that kind ' which puffeth up , ' rather than that which is made available to the elucidation of truth . His posthumous work on the Psalms is a continued burlesque on the sacred oracles . "—Pp . 91—95 . We are tempted to give a specimen of Servetus ' s critical acumen .
" I shall' add only one ' more example of your docility to the ' simple teachings of Scripture , ' which is furnished nic by the established version and orthodox interpretation of 1 Tim . vi . 16-r- * ¦ Until tbe appearing < of our- Lord , Jetitts . Christy which in hie times be shall shew , who
i « the blessed aiid only > Potentate , the King ) of kings ' . and Lord o § lofcds * : who only hatti immortalhy ;^ dwt lliiig m the light which ua man can approach unto ; Mrhonx no man hath seen ; nor can see i to whom be honour and power everlast * lag /
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STPANO OR FAiaL THE ATHAWASTAN * PK * -2 nltv ; for if the Father be intended-by the blessed and onry Potentate , and If tiie Father alone hath immortality *; then Jesus , the Son of God , is nor God supreme . Disregarding , therefore , the exclusion of the Father from blessedness ^ , supremacy and immortality , which nrtfst
follow it Christie the agent ( and it must be confessed the Father is that 'person of the Trinity whonv as yam ^ sotild most easily dispense with , you treat with least ceremony ) ; and finding tharChri&t hay - ing , in Revelations , the title of the Word of God , which dwelled in him , has also the title of the King ofkingg and Lord oi
lords , whose ambassador and representative he was ( though he is , therefore , no more the Supreme Being than the faithful servant , on whom he promises to * write the name of his God , ' would' therefore'be God ) ; seeing and reasoning thus , you do not read the words as even in their
present position they would be most naturally read , * which he , who is the blessed and only Potentate , will shew ; ' but you make who refer 1 o Je&us Christ , who is thus identified at once with the * " only Potentate ; ' and though , in Revelations , lie describes himself as he * that live ! h
and was dead , ' is declared c alone tohave immortality : ' and though John proclaims him to the disciples as having been ' seen with their , eyes / * as the medium , of the word of life * is asserted * never
to have been seen , and to be incapable of being seen by . any man ; ' and yet he is to appear , or to sheto his own appvartrtgy and ' all eyes shall see him . * Of aii these contradictions the Scripture is gaHtless .
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* " John . i . 18 , Jesus tell * the Jew * , Ye have not seen his shape : *< v * 37 , it was the , * glory of the Lord , ' or a symbol of hisi local presence , which the Israelites saw : Ex . xvi . 7 , and thus we mu » t cxpiain 1 the elders * seem ^ ' the God' of Israel : ' Ex . xxir . 1 ^ . Whtn J « 9 Uii satav
* He who hari » seen * 5 me -h ; ath » Been thl ? Father , ' ( a text strangely urged' in- pro ^ f of his deity , by those who atiftrm that hewas God the Soft , ) he explafoite hte ow » allusion by the workr > -whleh' the Father did thremgh himi » Jahttv xftr . " 9 V W& * " * as also xv . 24 / ' . ; ' * .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1822, page 109, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2509/page/45/
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