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    DIFFICULTIES ON TH £ UNITARIAN HYPOTHESHU To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir , On your recommendation , in the Review in your last number , I nave just procured and read Wright ' s " Essay on the

    Humanity of Christ . " You have not , in my opinion , overrated its merits . I know of no tract so likely to serve the cause of TJnitarianism among the poor , and I earnestly hope it will be speedily adopted by the societies for promoting the knowledge of the scriptures * x In reading it , however , I was reminded of two difficulties on the Unitarian hvoothesis of the oerson of Christ * which .

    have frequently occurred to my mind , and which I have never been able completely to remove . I take the liberty of stating them in your liberal work , in hopes of their attracting the notice of the intelligent and candid author of the Essay , who , I am persuaded , would tsike pleasure in dispelling a cloud from the mind of a sincere inquirer after truth

    -1 . In answer to the objection that on the Unitarian scheme Jesus Christ is not superior to the apostles , the Essayist remarks that the spirit was given by measure to them , but it is not given by measure to him . " Now by the spirit , I suppose

    Unitarians understand chiefly the power of working miracl es * But in this particular Christ represents himself a ^ inferior to the apostles : " Verily , verily I say unto you , he that believeth on me , the works that I do shall he do also , and greater works than these shall he do , because I go unto my Father . ' * ( John xiv . 12 ») As a mere prophet , then , Jesus scarcely ranks so high ,

    as the JNew lestament certainly places him-2 * One practical proof ( if I may so call it ) of the humanity of Christ , brought forward by Unitarians , is this ; that his ex ~ ample would not be suited to our circumstances unless he were a mere man . Yet they represent him ( at least the Essayist repre - * sents him } to be a sinless man , possessing spotless innocence and adorned with periec * virtue , and argue that he is hereby distia **

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    Inquiries ; " there still remains three subjects on which , in a future letter , I may perhaps offer you some observations—* the origin of heat , accident and free will . In the mean time , I am Sir , your most obedient and Very humble Servant , Glasgow , August 5 , 1 S 07 . P .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1807, page 469, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2384/page/17/