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      issue , and here unfortunately his 4 God and man being one Christ , " will a ( lord him no assistance . But let us examine his exposition of this passage , he has given it at t 4

      large , as follows , > Behold , what manner of love the Father hath be * stowed upon us , that we should be called the sons 01 God . " That is , says the clergyman , n \ Christ , of God the Son . u Therefore the

      world knoweth us not * because it knew not him : ( viz . God ) " not God the Father ; but God the Son , ** Beloved , now are we the sons of God ; " that is , of God the Son , and to follow the

      reasoning of the apostle , . " If sons , then heirs , heirs of God the Son , and joint heirs with Jesus Christ of God the Son . " If in this passage the phrase c 6 sons of God * ' means the sons of Jesus Chi int . as the

      clergyman asserts , no reason can be assigned why the same phrase , in every other place where it occurs , should not have the same meaning . Jesus Christ , then , and not the God of our Lord Jesus

      Christ , is the father of Christians , and consequently the father of Christ himself also , for he expressly says to his disciples " I ascend to my Father and Xo your

      Father , to my God and to your God . Again , when our Lord taught his disciples to pray ., saying M Father , " by father , upon the clergyman's hypothesis , he must have meant himself . What

      a bold attack is this upon the paternal character pf the God of our Lord Jesus Christ ! That character with all . the . -gracts and * " the mercy connected with and arising out of it , as also all ^ the worship and reverence due to him ,

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      is here transferred to Jcmis > Christ , But what does it -signif y * what be . conies of the honour and worship of the only true . God , provided the divinity and supreme worship of Jesus Christ be but maintained . seeing , according to the clergyman ' s system , we owe all our obligations to Jesus , and but for him , his God would have consigned us all to everlasting perdition ! To what will Trinitariauism lead ! But i $ is gone ; one of the relative distinctions , in the Deity is 4 x > ne , away ; there is no Father in tha ^ Godhead distinct from the So ; n in whom both the characters are

      united , and of course ^ that al ««) oj [ Holy Spirit , so that the clp rgy ^ man in endeavouring to support the doctrine of the Trinity has reasoned himself into rank Sabelr lianism . ^¦ t ^ m ^*~^ r ^ 4 mir ^ ^» ^ p '

      ^ ^^ ¦ % Having taken a review of the ? clergyman ' s interpretation of this passage , let the reader judge whether either the word fat her or God . in v . 1 2 . can possibly be the antecedent to he was manifested to take away our sins ; and whew ther we are not under the necessity

      of supposing an ellipsis in v . 5 . an 4 reading // e , Christy was manifeste 4 y and that the same ellipsis is necessary to be supposed in v . 1 ^ and Acts x # . 28 . if the presenjf reading of that text is retained z and that consequently neither o % those tenets proves Christ to ba God .

      " From Coh i . 15—1-7 . ( satysi the clergyman ) I liad asserted th ^ t Christ was the pre * existeiit Cre * ator of the : universe , " ' This i $ no $ true , h \ $ words are , lt Tfie jV ^ Testament writers assert , **? whictt is a very different thing from Hk

      ? Sec M , Repos . 1807 , p . 69 .

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      J . M . ' s Reply to the Clergyman on the Divinity of Christ . 139

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1808, page 139, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2390/page/19/