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    ter , than any modification of the mediatorial scheme , with the attri-( C butes of God as revealed in the antecedent dispensation of C the law and the prophets . " Upon a review of the tenor of many of the discourses of our Saviour , and of several of the

    most memorable asseverations in them , I could sometimes be almost tempted to think , that if any other divinity were predicated of his original Son of God than is compatible with this -conception of his nature , it must have been an after-thought . I do not

    deny that the attempt at any other solution of the term immediately involves the inquirer in inextricable difficulties . These , it will be owned , arc not niggardly admissions . What , indeed , I shall perhaps be asked , can possibly remain after them ? How

    surprised then must be my catechist when I reply , Only the whole , ( and that in the opinion alike of Christians of every denomination ^) only the whole of the controversy . The question still survives in all its force , Was this rational and scriptural Christianity apostolical Christianity ? And

    if upon this simple issue I record , in limine , my own conviction in a peremptory negative , I shall do more justice to my candour than by a more sceptical statement . Start not , gentle reader ; I am not going- to debate in a single sheet arguments which have swelled into multitudinous volumes .

    To the discussion no human being could feel himself more utterly incompetent than myself . No ! let learning dispose , as it may , of the confession that Jesus Christ is Lord , and of all the kindred theology of a hundred texts . I meddle not with

    matters so much too high for me . Let it , and welcome for iue , refine fact into metaphor , physical into moral creation , undcfinable and indefinite exertion of power into a fiat of yesterday . I adventure not upon

    speculations so little suited to my poor John-Trot talents . The solitary impression made on iny ill-informed and unlettered mind by a perusal of the apostolical epistles for which I would just now crave publicity is this : that if the doctrine named be

    indeed the doctrine of these writings , hyperbole-bombast may surely claim them as their no plus ultra , their tfhef-d ' uHivre . The love of Chri . st

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    which passeth knowledge—the length and breadth and depth and height ( I know not what ) : his unspeakable riches —( language seems to be in throes at the instance of thought ) what are all these transports , with their correspondent expressions , awakened by the recollection of the

    kindness of a fellow-mortal man , who died a violent in preference to a natural death , and , with the assurance of a resurrection in less than three days , challenged a premature grave ? I cannot , mnlgr ^ inoi , so deem of these if not mad" men , of these " speakers , " beyond all mankind , of " the words of truth and soberness . " It

    were at least as respectful and as plausible to suspect their understanding ' s of misapprehension as their feelings and diction of extravagance . No , they spoke as they felt , and they felt , at least so I cannot but conclude , as men only could feel who

    recognized in the object of their wonder , almost more than of their love , a Beinsf , in some sense or other of the word , superhuman . The mysterious tara , Oea ever present to their minds ,

    liis Ktvcocriq might indeed well transcend the efforts of language in its praise . To the believer of a paradox like this , his faith might well be termed life ' s blood , * the very tenure of existence . With the name of such

    a Son of God , the page of the devoutest and most consistent Unitarian that ever bowed in sole and undivided latreia before the God and Father of all , would of course be quite instinct . It is likely to meet us at every turn , to startle us ever and anon by its _ _ _ B

    occasional or frequent juxta-positions and precedences : to be identified at one moment with that of the Supreme Being , and at another to be invested with all its borrowed , indeed , but proper , majesty . Am I now doing more than sketching the history of an awful and endeared name in the

    compositions of the apostles ? Or is it , on the contrary , precisely to these that we should refer the catechumen for a triumphant comment on the text , disclaiming for this name the merely complimentary epithet oi "good , " negativing any thing characteristic in the appellation or

    dis-? " I live by the faith of the Son oi God . "

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1826, page 600, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2553/page/28/