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      « therefore ; judge , nptjbi ^ g before the tirtie :, until th& Lord' come ; who lioth will bring to light tfcte hidden tMhgs of darkness , and will make manifest the counsels 4 ? £ s the ; heart ; and j ^ hc ^ shall every ijian haye praise of God . ' * ist Gonnthians iv . 5 . transqri bing sorne oi ^ his pairagj-aphs at lengthy Brevity was his only motive . ,

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      -i . ON TlIE PHRASE U 5 OJf OF GOIX ^ AS APPLIED TO JE 31 TS OF * " r ; /— ¦ ; ''/ ' NAZAREtt . ¦ ¦ " ¦ ' / — -:- - ^^ ^ To /^ e Editor of [ th e Monthly Repository .

      ic v ' August 16 ^ 1810 . .: ^ " SXR , * , . > . ' . . - \ ¦ ¦ All Christians of all parties ad . t ^ it , that Jesus of Nazareth was the Son of God ; but though they agree in asserting the important fact .

      they differ very widely in their views of its import . Some suppose the j * hrase , * ' Son of God , ' to have a TOysterious and incomprehensible meaning ; which , by the . way , is tantamount to its havingno mean *

      ing ; for no meaning ri-tid a mean - ing that cannot he understood ^ is to the human understanding the same thing . Very generally have Christians concluded the jaame A * Son of Gk > d'' to be expressive of

      v particular nature and manner of existing , that though applied to a man , it ^ h ews him a being of a > ery ^ differe nt QrcUrlto otlieri men , to be possessed oi < a proper divine nature ^ and implies thaX he is truly : * & . & $ & vBy ^ tttany ^ tli ^ his , Jb ^ s been tata ? n for ^ anted ^ wit l iout d ue

      exjimmation ^ and those * who deny it hatfe feeetf charged with den ) 7 ing that Jesus is * lie Son of God . ir /^ howev e ^ the name . Son of God ** ^ CJessariiy implies a ? di « ine rratufe afe 3 proper deity in one € a ^ e > it must imply the same in all cUse * :-and wo fiodifcApplied v ¦>¦ ¦ , ,.,. v ; , ¦ i . hi ^ ^' j v ^* :. ;>!¦

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      by the sacred writers , either in the § ijagular ; or plural , to many other persons besides Jesus of Nazareth The cause of the above error seems

      to have been the constcurag the phraae too . literally 1 as if , because when a man begetea son , a person distinct from himself , but of the same nature and constitiited like

      himself , is produced , the Son of God must / be of tfi ^ same nature with fai& Father ,, and under every viewy s ^ uch a ^ beings as-he-is ! But in the former case the Son is not

      only a distinct person , but a distinct mamfrom his father , therefore U > infer from it the nature of the sonship of ; ChTist ^ would involve the idea not only that he is a distinct person , but a distinct ' God fram that God who is his Father . In the very nature oi things , the phra&e V Son-, of God ' i ^ Hist- be figtirati ^ e ; for- God , who . is Spirit ^ who is oa ^ . undivided , peerless teeing , caTailo ^ h ave 11 Son as human beings have fis ^ ns : in all cases * but wheft : ct { 3 . pli < tdc to Jesus , Ghristiaiis ^ f ^ lk . pa , rtijC 3 ii / ive admitted th , Q namo ? S Scm , oCGod ' - to ibe 4 igurativ . e . ; s , ] j ^ o ; - iflthnation ^ givea in scriptw ^^ thltt it bas 0 rfiffcrcnt meaning ; * s applied to jj * m& . toi what U li ^ vv b un appJ-W <;¦ -: ^ "t : ; . . - ' \ .. < ¦ ¦ % > - .-vvi- "i'ff-i-l - «•' ' ' " "

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1810, page 496, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2409/page/24/