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iior , for want of power , promote effectually the religious and moral improvement of the people ; the petitioners therefore humbly pnty , that no further concessions be made to the Roman Catholics , and that the House
will not sanction any encroachment upon the integrity of that Church , which has for so long a period been . the means of deriving * the Divine blessing upon the British Constitution .
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tian t- ^ but en tertain towards Athanasianism much of the same feeling * which a devout Jew might entertain towards unwitting and conscientious idolatry ; if to deprecate the
doctrine as in matter , Spirit and terms a scandal to Protestant Christianity , as a ' vantage ground given to infidelity , as the best solution of the phenomenon of the slow progress of the faith once delivered to the saints "
amongst the nations , and the main obstacle to its further reception in the world , can entitle me to the surname , then am I unquestionably a Unitarian : yet , in the ad vocation of the divinity of my Saviour , would I not quail before the most full-blown Athan&sian
in Christendom . When I say this , do I mean the autotheism of the Son of God , the inherent divinity of the Christ ? No . My ysvoiro that I should so parody the Sacred Oracles , that I should directly or indirectly " preach " two Gods under the name of one . O
no : the deity I ascribe to the " Lord " is no other than that he expressly , and over and over again , challenged for himself : an identification with " the Father / ' not of parity ! ! ! but of subjection — a , nature concurrent with HIS , only because invariably
prostrate before it—an image , not a counterpart—a reflection only , not a co-primaeval beam' —a name not his own , but , § -n ^ w , —capable © f * increment and wane , of resumption and existence only in memory . But in
this only scriptural import of the term , does any Unitarian , any more than myself , deny the divinity , the deity , of the Son of God ? Does any Unitarian doubt , whether " having seen him , " the apostles " had seen the Father" ? Whether " he was in the
Father , and the Father in him" ? Whether " it pleased the Father that in him should dwell all the fulness of the Godhead bodily" ? Or , will any Unitarian contend that if these things might be predicated of him during his sojourn upon earth , they cannot be predicated of him now that be lias been received into heaven ? That what
certainly was true of him in his state of humiliation , is probably not true of him now that he is glorified ? Must I renounce the title of Unitarian before I can consistently ' * confess him
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274 j- Scriptural Ditoinity of Christ .
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" There is one God , and one iGediator between God and men , the man Christ Jesus . "—1 Tim . ii . 5 . *< God hath made Lord—this Jesus . "Acts ii . 36 \ ' * Say ye of him , whom the Father hath sanctified , and sent into the world s Thou blasphemest ; because I said , / am the Son of God ? " —John x . 36 . * God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him . " — -John iii . 34 . " Christ- —the power of God , and the wisdom of God . " - * -l Cor . i . 24 .
" Whom not having seen ye love ; in whom , though now ye see him not , yet believing , ye rejoice with joy unspeakable , and full of glory . "—1 Pet . i . 8 . Sjr , HAVE lately ( XVIII . 583 ) ven-I tured to enter the lists with
Athanasianlsrn upon the issue of being if wise above what is written ; " and my recrimination has probably been honoured by the concurrence of every Unitarian as a faithful echo of his own every-day convictions , as to our comparative adherence to Scripture testiwony and language . I am now about to vindicate Anti-Athanasiairisnx from
a charge ^ on which I know not whether I may promise myself a like unanimity . It has been recently with no little triumph remarked , of a late supposed convert from Unitarianism to Orthodoxy , in his last moments , that he then admitted the divinity of
our Saviour . Upon the character of the evidence afforded by such ail-butposthumous amplifications of belief , it is i \ i >\ niy intention to hazard a singly observation , denying in limine , as 1 iMjuan to do , that the tenet in
question * properly understood * is an indispotable fj # e of demarcation between t ^ e t vyo t ; ree < Js , Not , lot riic premise , tj u * t J a * B 8 , 0 mightily aj }? dous aa some pf rjrjjF br ^ ferew i ^ g , y ^ a , bout tlj e title q £ i ^ pj ^ TOw ,: it is enough for me , I QWJb if I se $ nx U > myself , the CUris-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1824, page 274, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2524/page/18/
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