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fed before ! the twWWomi ® in > the Greek without affefeting * th ¥ atnm , " adding as if in Btfticipaff € > n * &f the vaantings of some modern scholars , " Surely , What is proposed to us as an object of belief , especially in a matter involving a primary article of faith , ought not to
be an inference , " " hunted out by careful research from among articles aiid particles , nor elicited by dint of ingenuity , like the answers of an ora . cle , from sentences of dark or equivocal meaning . " Pp . 117 > 118 . He takes
notice of the article-argument again 5 n his examination of Jude , ver . 4 , p . 120 . He renounces the modern Arian notion of Christ being the angel that conducted the * Mosaic dispensation , and quotes Heb . viii . 6 , to shew that " it does not seem to have been
suitable that Christ who was the minister of the gospel should also be the minister of the law . " P . 122 . He considers Isaiah ix . -6 , favourable to the Antitrinitarian doctrine , for here Christ receives his name from the
Father : he reads " Everlasting Father /' Father of the age to come , — ' * that is , its teacher , the name of father being often attributed to a teacher . " On this and other passages usually brought to prove the eternity of the Son , he reasons thus logically and unanswerably :
" Him who was begotten from' all eternity the Father cannot have begotten , for what was made from all eternity was never in the act of being made ; him whom the Father begat frbm all eternity he still begets ; he whom he still begets is not yet begotten , and therefore is not
yet a son ; for an action which has no beginning £ an have no completion . Besides , it seems to be altogether impossible that the Son should be either begotten or born from all eternity . If he is the Son , either he must have been originally in the Father , and have proceeded from
him , or he must always have been as he is now , separate from the Father , selfexistent and independent . If he was originally in the Father , but now exists separately , he has undergone a certain change at some time or other , and is therefore mutable . If he always existed
separately from , and independently of , the Father , how is he from the Father , how begotten , how the Son , how separate in subsistence , unless he be also separate in essence ? since ( laying aside metaphysical trifling ) a substantial essence aiid a subsistence are the same thing . However this ^ n « y be , it-will- be
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universally ad ^ ndwledged ^ taft tfce , Soa n < m at lea $ l differs imorericajty % « ^ Father ; btut diut thp « e ivho dififer- ^ uuie lically must djffei ^^ atea iii Xh&v proper essences , as the logicians expigs $ , it & too clear to be denied by anyone possessed of common reason . H ' eiice it follows that the Father arid the Sbii differ in essefice . " — -Pp . 133 , 134 .
' - From a collection of j ^ s ^ a ^ a relating to the clivine honours of Chjfist , he concludes * ( p . 143 , ) " th ^ t w ] tan we call upon the S ^ n of ( 56 d , Uit oj ^ jy in his capacity ofadvocate -with the Father . "
This great writer concludes this most important chapter with a citation of texts , to prove that the doctrine which he has laid down " is alone taught in Scripture , is acceptable to God , and has the promise of eternal salvation : " to which lie adds , that to
*• this is the faith propb ^ ed us in the Apostles * pi ^ d ^ ' \ th ^' 'i p 6 $ ti ^^ Qt and universally received ebmpptt ^ um of belief in the ppsses 3 iop q £ tho Church . * We r ^ ret . ttatt we havp
not been able to make larger extracts , as examples of his vigorous miad and accurate scriptural leai-ningj especially from those parts of th ^ ch apter that are devoted to the e ^ ponureof the " Vertumniaii distitictions aftd
evasions" by which the rej ^ tM u orthodox ' church , with her ' e ^ er ** re&ly subteirfnge , * ' makes the iSpnpture of pone eiffecj ; : but . we are notwittiput hope that this , with some other parts of the work , may be reprittte ^ < ip a cheap form for popular' circulation . The Unitarians would be tvaatin ^ to
their cause if they did not avail themselves of the discovery , proclaimed by Royal authority , that OntKfe ^ belfr ^ at question between theiii and Trinitarians , they may now claltfl as their own , in addition to the mighty names of Lockie and Newton , the not inferior name of Milton .
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692 Jieview . ^ MiUon ' s Treatise of Ckristia fc 4 > octrMe .
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Art . IV . —Memoir of . the Rev . Ben-Jamin Goodier . 12 nao . pp . 265 . Liverpool printed , and sold by R . Hunter , London . 1825 .
SUCH of our readers as remci ^^ the account # iven of Mr . Goodier in our XlVth / Vol ., pp . 69— 74 ™" 142—146 , will scarcely be surprised that his friends should devote this volume to his memory , and , we may
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1825, page 692, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2542/page/52/
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