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    MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS,

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    Miscellaneous Communications,

    MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS ,

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    MIU BELSHAM ' S STRICTURES UPON MR . B . CARPENTErV DEFENCE OF ARIANISM 11 ST HIS LECTURES . LETTER VJ [ . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .

    Sir , At the commencement of his sixth Lecture , p . 128 , my worthy iriend fairly and candidly states his opinion concerning the person and ottices of Christ as mediator , ' My ideas /' says he , " respecting the mediation of Christ are extensive . I regard him as the grand agent employed by the Supreme Bei ng * in creating , in governing , and in judging our world s and the immediate dispenser of all tilings pertaining both to life and

    godliness . This is precisely the point concerning which we are at issue . The Unitarians maintain that Jesus of Nazareth was a man * similar in all respects to other human beings , but distinguished from his brethren as the greatest of all the prophets of God , who was commissioned to reveal to mankind the awful doctrine of a future life , and to confirm and exemplify this doctrine by his own resurrection from the dead .

    My friend in support of his opinion professes to ** adduce some arguments from analogy , and from the situation of man ^ as well as from the sacred writings . To this argument from analogy , upon which my friend and many other ingenious and learned Arians lay great stress , I de * - uiur at the first outset * The question is concerning a simple fact . Is Jesus of Nazareth the delegated creator and governor of the world or not ? They who maintain the affirmative , arc bound to establish it like all other facts by proper testimony , which in this case must necessarily be that of divine revelation , for it does not admit of anv other . Reason teaches us that the

    world must have a maker and governor . The presumptive proofs that the Creator and Governor of this world and its inhabitants is the Supreme , Original , Infinite Being himself , ami not a delegated minister of Omnipotence , are , I think , both numerous and forcible . Yet if a well-attested revelation distinctly teaches that the world was made and is governed by delegated power , and that Jesus of Nazareth is the person to whom that power was intrusted , I must bow to its authority and admit thefaet . Because however contrary to all my pro-

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1807, page 460, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2384/page/8/