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Lord / 5 though " to the glory of God the Fatlier' * , ? Must I renounce the title of Unitarian if I believe that he may be privy to any prayer I am offering' up to his God and mine * or that a name so influential once with our common Father has lost all its interest with Him ever since ? If a Jewish convert , at his feet in the days of his flesh , could , without one thought
of treason to the Majesty on High , look up to him as an intercessor , who , if he asked any thing of God , God would give it him , shall not a Christian disciple there , from his youth up , who , with the eye of faith , has long beheld him at the right hand of that Majesty in the heavenly places , as
guiltlessly and as justly so look up unto him , though invisible to the eye of sense , now ? Am I not an Unitar ian , if I presume to hope , that I have an ever present and all prevailing * ' Advocate with the Father" ? Am
I not an Unitarian , because though I say with an apostle that the end cometli , when the Son of God shall deliver up the kingdom to the Father , I say also with the same apostle ,, tlmt that kingdom is and shall be his till
God have put all his eneimes under his feet ? And as a subject of that delegated , that temporary kingdom , mast I indeed renounce all pretension to the honourable name I bear , unless I can disenchant my mind of the delusion that he is intimatelv acquainted
with every tiling that is passing in it , alive every- moment to its interests , anxious auotit the fate of every individual within it , my ovvn personal friend , guide , guardian and co-petitioner to the throne of grace and
glory ? Ah , then , farewell for one the title of Unitarian Christian . Assuredly I have not so learned Christ or his apostles . In that " name above every name" I have ever prayed $ in that " name above every name" 1 have ever given thanks : never but
throu gh him do I so much as think of glorifying God : my every trust to Godward has been always and only through him : I hope only for the Father ' love , because conscious of loving him , and of believing that he came forth from God , that he is gone to God , that he is with God : with
him to-day , yesterday and for ever ; with him , fis it were in jus bosom , interceding tor my sins , and those oi
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all his pthqr brethren * touched wit& the feeling ofjour infirmities , and ai > J $ to save to tlie uttermost all \ vhp ^ pnaB unto God through him . And will t * o t many an Unitarian now ejaculate with your correspondent , " even so . -cooie Lord Jesus" ! O then let Unitarians no longer unanimously sit silent under the unmerited obloquy of denying ; the divinity of the Son of God . They do not singly deny , on the contrary , they exclusively ajfirm it in the only sense in which it was ever challenged by Christ or imputed by his apostles . They only " honour the Son" solely as " the
Missionary of the Father : " and iu thus solely honouring him * they only render him that ' * glory which he sought , " they only disclaim with him and for him that blasphemy * which he would have spurned . CLERICUS .
* " None is good save one—that is God . " Luke xviii . 19 .- — - " If I honour myself my honour is nothing / ' John viin 5-1 .
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A Friendly Correspondence between an Unitarian and a Calvinist . ( Continued from p . 164 . ) N to L 5 th October . r ~ H ~ l HE condition of departed spirits ^ L cannot be af fected by any thing that we can say or think or feel respecting them . As respects both sects it is agreed that the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ is worthy of all acceptation , and to be received , as it is , and was at first , joyfully . Every one who is willing may have it . What is there then to complain of ?
I cannot believe that you would tell a known sinner against the Holy Cibost that he would be blessed in heaven to all eternity . You misunderstood what I said about mv attention being distracted at
church about this controversy . It was not because I felt myself in difficulty , but because counter proofs poured into my mind in abundance , and I was led too much out in thinking how I should frame the sentences in making my replies . Whatever may be said , I cannot believe that God lias ordahxed in his
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A Friendly Correspondence between tin XJtiitnrian md a Gjalvinfat . 2 £ 5
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1824, page 275, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2524/page/19/
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