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    the doctrine of the immediate agency of God in Christ , where willH ! Dr . Smith find the person of the Son in the Trinity , when it iss ; plainly declared that such powers were received from the Fatherr as in the following , What I see my Father do , &c * * " The Father that is in me , he , &c . ' ' I have received of the Father :

    TheTFather hatrFciDffiffiitted ^ a ^^ it is attributed to the Holy Spirit , as in the passage where Jesus * says , Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit shall not be forgiven ;" evidently meaning , as the context shows , that the Son of mam did the works by inspiration from God . If Dr . Smith has not ; loosened the key-stone of his Trinity , no argument can shake it .

    His chapter on the article may be safely left in the hands of Gregory Blunt , who also will kindly show him how to fit his proofs to a fourth God in the person of Moses , We may give him all the advantage of his elaborate chapter on the Hebrew plural . If the plural was then necessary to express the Deity , so must it be now , and thus , besides the advantage of getting rid of the barbarous unscriptural word Trinity , by saying ' Gods / we may avoid the blasphemy of limiting their persons , as e for any

    thing we know it may be one of the unique properties of the divine nature to consist of one hundred persons . Dx . S . tells us , ' that a considerable part of his evidence consists of allusions , implications , and assumptions , '' and * that such , in the interpretalion of written documents , often produces a sense of certainty superior to direct and positive evidence . ' Thanjung him for the concession , let me just examine the force of his position , ' -which is intended to do more than overthrow it . It is very true , that the evidence of

    a fact which is corroborated by , and in some cases even founded on implications , may be superior to evidence directly in its favour , where there is suspicion of interpolation or intended misrepresentation ; but in a case ( mark the difference ) where there is direct and indirect evidence of equal authenticity , who can for an instant doubt to which most attention ought to be paid ? What indirect evidence can avail against the following : — - ' . One < 5 rQti and Father of all who is above all . ' c There is but one God the

    Father and one Lord Jesus Christ . ' * Christ shall deliver up the kingdom to God the Father . ' * The head of every man is Christ , the head of Christ is God . ' Finally , Dr . S . says , that * No intelligent believer holds that the reception of any truth is necessary to . salvation in itself , or in any other way than its practical influence on * tHe whole moral 1 f

    character , and most justly refers as a proof to—because they receive not the love of the truth that they may be saved . ' Let but the orthodox creed be modelled according to this truth , and a glorious step will be taken in Christian professors , and a weight of sin be taken from the souls of those whose * Believe as I dp . or be damned' has hindered many an honest mind from partaking of the blessings of the Christian faith , where inquiry has- been stopped

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    • * 272 ON DR . , P . SMITH ' S SCRIPTURE TESTIMONY .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1833, page 272, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2621/page/16/