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hided' to in each of the twelve articles . They may thus easily see by consult * ing the tewt and the contewt of each , how much more clearly the genuine sense of the sacred writers may be gathered from the text than from their
mutilated comments . Such a compilation of discordant materials , affords a fit subject for much animadversion . I shall only notice a few of the passages which seem to me to require it , and those briefly . The tests referred to in the first
article are 2 Tim . iii . \ 5 3 16 , and 2 Pet . i . 21 . That from Paul does not * and cannot with reason be said to dis- > tinguish between canonical books of scripture and those which are of dubious authority . Barclay knew better , and renders the text thus : " All
scripture given by inspiration of God is profitable for correction /* ' &c . The received text says , " All scripture is given by inspiration , " implying to the ill-informed English reader that the whole volume was , in the same sense , written by inspiration . The translators knew that no Greek MS . said
any such thing , and have therefore , very properly , printed the important word is in italics , to denote that no corresponding word is to be found in the Greek text . The text from Peter relates to the
prophetical parts of the Scripture only , which must have been imparted by Divine inspiration , if they are so cat led with propriety . On behalf of the second article , no other text of even the received
Version than the noted interpolation 1 John v . 7 , is adduced ^ for a very good reason , because no genuine text teaches any such doctrine .. In support of each position in the third article , almost every book of the received canon , even in any
translation , may be pertinently and conclusively quoted . Its truth has , indeed , been maintained by all Christian churches in every age , from that of the apostles to the present , whatever other tenets any of them may have also held , and professed to
incorporate therewith . I shall therefore only refer to the following texts : Gen . u 1 , xxi . 33 ; Neh . via . 6 , ix . 6 ; Psa . xvi . 1 , xxxvi . 6—10 ; Isa . xl . 25—28 \ Rom . ix . 5 , as those which the compilers probably had in view ; and observe that the one from the New
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Testament is not quoted as it stands in the received textj but , iii my apprehension , much more consistently with the true sense of the apostle * The next article of the Creed is as follows : C €
Fourth . The infinite and mosl wise God , who is the foundation , root and spring of all operation , hath wrought all things by his eternal Word and Son : this is that Word that was in the beginning with God , and was God ; by whom all things were made , and without whom wats fiot any thing made that was made . Jesus Christ is
the beloved and only-begotten Son of God , who in the fulness of time , through the Holy Ghost , was conceived and born of the Virgin Mary . In him we have redemption through his blood , even the forgiveness of sins . We believe he was made a sa > -
crilice for sin , who knew no sin ; that he was crucified for us in the fleshy was buried , and rose again the third day , by the power of the Father for our justification , ascended up into heaven , and now sitteth at the right hand of God ** I add the texts to
this and the remaining articles which I suppose the writers had in view . It would not have been amiss had they givfcn references to them in the margin , or at the end of each article .
John i . 1 , xxiii . 14 ; Matt . i . 20 ; Luke i . 35 ; Eph . i . 7 ; 2 Cor . v . 21 ; 1 Pet . iv . 1 ; 1 Cor . xv . 4 ; Rom . iv . 25 ; Coloss . iii . 1 .
Fifth . "As then , that infinite and incomprehensible Fountain of life and motion operateth in the creatures by liis own eternal word and power , so no creature has access again unto
him , but in and by the Son , according to his own declaration , * No man knoweth the Father but the Son , and he to whom the Son will reveal
himself ? Again , ' I afri the way , the truth and the life ; no man cometh to the Father but by me . ' Hence he is the only Mediator between God and man , for having been with God from
all eternity , being himself God , and also in time partaking of tlie nature of man ; through him is the goodness and love of God conveyed to mankind , and by him again man receiveth and paptaketli of these mercies . " Matt . xi .
2 /; Luke x . 22 ; John xiv . 6 . In quoting the texts Of Matthew and Luke , their united testimony is made
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340 The proposed America k Quaker Creed .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1824, page 340, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2525/page/20/
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