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for which he is by no moans to be blamed , as his professional avocations can leave him but little time for speculative theology . But it is much to be desired that he were rather less dogmatical . This , however , is a failthose who
ing to which are always insisting" upon one question , without sufficiently diversifying it with others , are very prone : and it reminds me of a saying , which I have often heard from my late friend Dr . Kippis—Deliver me from the man who only reads
one book . Your correspondent , in contradistinction to some who , as he seems to think , are inclined to derogate from the honour due to Christ , expresses
himself in very glowing terms upon this subject : and I cordially concur with him when he says , "If we con . template him on earth , performing" the arduous duties of his mission without
fear and without reproach , how much beneath him do other mortals appear , whose deeds are emblazoned in the pages of history ! " Jesus Christ is the greatest of all the prophets of God , He is the way , the truth and the life : his mission was sealed by his resurrection from the dead , and his
ascension into heaven , and the gift of the holy spirit . He ever lives to make intercession for us ; or , in other words , in some unknown way to act in behalf and for the benefit of his
church . His powers are , probably , continually increasing , and his glory is unspeakable and incomprehensible . But for that very reason we have and can have no concern with it . And the more we attempt to comprehend and explain it , the more shall we puzzle
and confound ourselves and others , and the more shall we darken counsel by words without knowledge . We can know nothing of Christ but what we learn from his gospel : in that sacred volume we are taught what to believe concerning him , and what duties he
squires of his disciples . We learn to revere him as the great prophet of 0 ( i » the founder of the new and fiual ™ Y Pensation to mankind ; and thus instructed , we receive him as our t
eacher , we obey him as our Master , we love him as our great moral benewtor , we imitate him as our pattern , ** triumph , in him as our hope . Him , Miough unseen , « we love ; in him ,
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though now we see him not , yet believing , we rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory . " All this I can understand and assent to . But when , in addition to this , I am told , " We cannot exalt the
Saviour too highly : all our words fall short of the ideas entertained by a true Christian towards him . " " This , I say , is incorrect . For words may , and have , and do often express ideas more exalted than a well-informed Christian entertains towards his
Master . Words will express that Jesus Christ was the great pre-existent Logos , by whose instrumentality the supreme God made and governs this world , or this system , or all worlds and systems , and many a true Christian has believed the doctrine , but no well-informed Christian will receive * it
as true . Again , words will express what the Socinians taught , namely , " that Jesus Christ who , in his first state of existence was a man like
ourselves , " was after his resurrection exalted to the supreme dominion over the whole created universe ; but it would be difficult to find any Christian , of any description , in the present day , who would avow so extravagant an opinion . Upon the whole , it is
our wisest part to be content with the plain doctrine of the plain Scripture , and not to puzzle ourselves or our readers with speculations upon subjects which , being beyond our comprehension , can be of no use to direct our practice . T . BELSHAM .
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Sir , ALLOW a looker-on to say one word on the value of what are called " Ordination Services , " which appears to me to consist not so much in the advice given on these occasions • • -m m *
to young ministers , as in the favourable opportunity which they create of exciting public attention to the ministers and their congregations- Our elders of most talents and reputation are employed in these services ; and all the circumstanced are auspicious to a successful exhibition of our principles and views as Dissenters and Unitarians . Need more be eaid ion behalf of them ? PRESBYTER .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1825, page 417, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2538/page/33/
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