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    ON DR. PIE SMITH'S SCRIPTURE TESTIMONY.

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    of the Father , as he was while among men in promoting our welfare ; if he is not a mere lifeless abstraction , but , as a friend in a far country , preparing a place for us in a common Father ' s house , does not this doctrine enable th , e heart to realize the proraises . of the gospel , to feel more intensely the full assurance of —faithyand hallowed love ? At all events , he that takes the Scriptures

    for his guide , makes them the man of his right hand and his counsellor , reads them with a view to be and feel as they dictate , praying to God the while for the _ aid ~ . apd blessing of his Spirit , cannot be utterly destitute of love to God and Christ ; and may , with well-grounded confidence , hope that remaining deficiencies will not be a bar to his salvation . He has laboured to comply with the command , * My son , give me thine heart / and will in mercy be accepted * according to what he hath . '

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    When I read some time since in theMonthly ' Repository a review of Dr . Pye Smith ' s Scripture Testimony , I was led to form a far higher ; opinion of the power of that work than a recent pefusal of it has confirmed . Indeed I may say that it is a wotlrTvhich scarcely any Christian could read without feeling with increased

    force the evidence for the sole deity of the Father / The arguments for the simple humanity of Christ are so beautifully illustrated , and the doctrine of salvation through faith alone so plainly denied , that the author cannot have made many converts from our body . In the first place , with regard to the nature of Grod , Dr . Smith says , What is the mode of his existence , every thinking man must soon become sensible is above his faculties /

    Who appears to be most sensible of this truth , he who finds it intimated and assumed in the Bible that God is trinity in unity , and unity in trinity , or he who reads therein , * There is one God , and there is no other but he' ? Again , * Revelation will inform us concerning God himself so much as our capacity can receive ^ and as may promote our duteous concurrence with the designs of his wise and holy government . ' Then why seek to discover from 4 allusions and implications' more than is directly revealed ? (

    Besides , a trinity in unity is more than our capacity can receive / if that means understand , and if so , according to Dr . Smith , is not revealed ; or again , if it is , we know not ' as much as \ y ill promote our duteous concurrence , &c . as there are po places informing us our relative duty to the three persons ; Christ having always prayed to the Father alone , and all the strained proofs of prayer by the apostles to Christ , do not make him the object of other supplications than the same persons have in other p laces offered the Father ; which is far from the modern custom .

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    270 on dr . p . smith ' s scripture testimony .

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    ON DR . PIE SMITH'S SCRIPTURE TESTIMONY .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1833, page 270, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2621/page/14/