On this page
-
Text (1)
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
his Deity , nor acknowledge him as the second person of the Godhead , True , we do deny the Jesus of the Athanasian and the Nicene Creeds ; of the Liturgy and the Articles of the Established Church ; of the
Coufessioris of Faith adopted by almost all the churches of Christendom ; but let no one , on this account , apply to us the language of the Apostle Peter in the text , till he has proved that the doctrine of these creeds on this point , is indeed the doctrine of the New
Testament , The Jesus of such creeds and confessions we must deny , and confess him alone to whom the apostles have with one voice borrie witness . * Whatever Jesus has declared himself to be , whatever his apostles have taught concerning him , that we desire to know and to believe . Every
title which Jesus has claimed , we willingly ascribe to him ; every honour which he has demanded , we would reverently pay $ nor do we yield to any in admiration of his character , gratitude for his services , or those scriptural expressions of love and veneration which he claims .
Should it be further said , that we , nevertheless , deny him in the important character he sustains , as the Lord who bought us , we ask , whether they who confidently apply this language to us , understand its genuine import ? We cannot but think that , in
general , they do not . It by no means follows that we deny the Lord who bought us , because we do not acknowledge him as doing that for us , which is ascribed to him only in the fallible comments of theologians , in
the creeds of ecclesiastical synods and councils . We may deny Jesus the Saviour , as he is represented to tis by an Augustin , a Luther , a Calvin , or an Arrninius , and yet be pure and consistent believers in him of whom
Moses and the prophets spake , and whom his own inspired disciples have called " the Apostle and High-Priest of our profession / 5 As in respect of the person , so in respect of the office
of Christ , we are willing and desirous to be guided by the sacred writers . Their language we adopt , on that we form our creed , and in the terras they use , we wish to express it . * Acts ii . 22 , iv . 10 ; 1 Tim . ii . 5 .
Untitled Article
To whomsoever the words in the text refer , to them all that follows is intended to be applied . But surely the most determined adversary of Unitarian principles , and the severest accuser of his brethren , will not be so blind , or so thoroughly destitute of
candour , as to say that the whole description is applicable to the doctrines of Unitarians , or to those who maintain them . The text is . the only portion which any one will presume to consider in this light . But howl
ever common the practice of thus taking passages out of their proper connexion may be , we must protest against it in this and in all cases , as contrary to every rule of just interpretation . '
Thus far Mr , W . has argued upon the supposition that the words of the apostle are properly understood to refer to the Lord Jesus , and to the
effects of his mission > and even on this supposition he has shewn that it is an act of injustice to apply them to Unitarians . But he maintains , that it is not the Lord Jesus of whom
Peter here speaks . They who are not obliged to trust to any version of the apostle ' s words , are without excuse if they so misinterpret , and so wrongfully apply them . For they must know that the original term used by the sacred writer , * and rendered by our translators Lord , is not that which in other instances is
selected to denote the Lord Jesus , but in such a connexion as that in which we here fend it , is appropriated to the God and Father of the Lord Jesus , the Sovereign Ruler of Nature . The four other passages in which it occurs , f are decisive of its import . Archbishop Newcome , accordingly , renders it in the place before us , 4 * The Sovereign Lord . "
Jf any persons think that the phrase who bovg-ht them , cannot properly be used concerning the Father , and therefore that it here designates Jesus the Sou of God , an investigation of scriptural phraseology may correct his error . The terms which had been
employed by the writers of the Old Testament to describe the state and t Luke ii . 29 ; Ada iv . 24 ; [ 2 Pefc . ii . 1 ;] Judc 4 ; Rev . vi . 10 .
Untitled Article
238 Review . —Welibelove&s Sermon at Hull .
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1824, page 238, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2523/page/46/
-