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    that 1 the Son of man am ? to which this apostle answered ' Thou art Christ , the Son of the living God . " And he apprehends that the Church of Christ * would have been more pure and peaceable , if no other confession had ever been required of its members / ' I think so too , provided that the terms are tised in a rational and ' proper sense , without which a mere verbal

    agreement is puerile and trifling . My friend seems to think differently . " If I am asked / ' says he , what precise meaning I affix to those words the Son of the living God , I am not solicitous to answer this question . ' * I admire my friend ' s prudence in the easy method which he has adopted of getting rid of troublesome inquiries . It saves much time and pains * Others \ vhoare less sparing of their labour , or who have mote leisure and inclination to inquire , may perhaps observe , that the phrase , € C Son of God / ' has various senses in the New Testament .

    Jesus applied this character to himself , became he was the person ** whom the Father had sanctified andsentinto the world /' that is , whomhehad chosen , and appointed to reveal hjs will to mankind , John x . 36 . The primitive converts were called son § of God , because they participated in the gifts of the holy spirit . Rom . viii . 15 . Gal . iv . 6 , but to Christ the spirit was

    communicated without measure . Christians in general are sop ? pf Gojd because they are heirs of an immortal inheritance , Rom , viii . 16 . 17 . Gal . iv . 7 ? and in this sense ^ Jesus is " the first born from the dead /* CoK i . 18 . Nor can I find a single passage either in the Q } d Testament or the New ^ in which the expression , " son of God ? ° necessarily signifies , a beipg , in rank and natvire superior to mankind . So thatl cannot accede to the

    worthy author ' s ipea that it may be necessary to *? wait till another stage of existence couuxiences / * inorder to understand so plain a phrase . My friend justly observes ^ p . 154 ^ that fc there can be but three opinions respecting Christ . Either he is the self-existent God * or a mere man like ourselves ^ or a being of an inter-6

    mediate order between God and man / ' He adds ^ * Now without uncharitably regarding those who adopt the first opinion , as idolaters ,, or those who adopt the second , as unbelievers . 1 acknowledge that the third appears to me most consonant to the declaration of scripture . ^ I have ., Sir , no desire to prevent my worihy friend from selecting and professing whatever opinion ? he pleases , nor yet from pluming himself upon his great charity , and proclaiming it to the world , but I wish that lie had not in the same sentence cast an unnecessary reflection upon others who happen to think diiFcrentJy from himself with regard tQ

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    &&B Mr . Behharn $ Strictures on Carpenters Lectures .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1807, page 538, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2385/page/30/