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    of the great doctors of divinity , so termed , hold forth for the doctrines of the gospel . ' —R 70 . Again , " But if I know Christ no otherwise than they teach , describe and declare him , I think , I must be either a sceptic or a Deist * I can never see the

    connexion between the sufferings of a body of flesh , seventeen or eighteen hundred years ago , and the salvation of an immortal soul at this day ; icithout seeing- those sufferings connected with the sufferings of the seed that is one in all . The seea groaned on

    Calvary , the seed groans in all ; * Even we ourselves groan within ourselves , waiting for the adoption , the redemption of our body / The whole creation , ( df mankind ) groans more or less to be delivered into the liberty of the children of God . And this salvation

    l > y Christ , the suffering seed , the Lamb slain from tlie foundation of the world is in this way , the most glorious display of infinite wisdom ! But I think the system by some promulgated for

    the gospel of salvation by Jesus , is as full fraught with absurdity , as almost any thing I have met with in Mahometanism , or the ancient mythology of the Heathen .

    " The world by wisdom knew not God then , nor can the wisdom of the world a whit more know him now ; but this wisdom has got hold of things

    given by inspiration and revelation from God to his children ; and doubts not its full competency to the comprehension , methodizing and promulgation of the gospel 1 This wisdom reads , ' * [" but not in the genuine text oi

    the Scriptures , ] " * There are three that bear record in heaven : * and will have it , these are three distinct persons in one God ; and rivers of human blood have been shed in consequence of the contentions that have been about this

    mystery ! As they handle it , they advance natural flesh and blood to divinity ; they deify a person of shape and dimensions , and look for his coming " , a-s- ^ such , to judgment . They make , in short , three Gods ; and yet say they are but one God 1 But the three that

    bear record iu heaven , are known where God reveals them , and never elsewhere . "—By this and the following observations of our author , it seems probable lie was not acquainted with the history of this corrupt interpolation of the text . He adds , ** No

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    mystery can be declared ftGin God , and gain credence , but anon , the poor finite wisdom of the creature presumes to lay hold of it , and vainly proceeds to absolute determinations ; and then often seeks to enforce their

    notions on mankind , sometimes by the point of the sword , sometimes by fire and faggot ; and were I an honest Deist , I must endure their tortures ^ before I could subscribe to theitf

    dOgmas " . Let the creature be passive till life leads to action ; let man be a fool , as he is , and wait on God for instruction , and be will at least avoid the

    labyrinth of learned absurdity ; and may learn that the infinite Jehovah , the great / am , as the eternal , selfexistent , omnipotent , and first cause of all things , ever reigns properly Gvd and is one . *—Pp . 71 , 72 .

    " How far he ( God ) is or is not properly the Father of all created intelligences , all animated nature , I am not curious to inquire or anxious to decide ; but as putting forth his power , or uttering his voice , or as power put forth , or a voice uttered , in order

    for production or creation , or in order for diffusion of bliss , he is the holy word ; also as manifesting in intelligible language the Divine Will , to the ear of the soul , he is the word of the Lord ; the word nigh in the heart and mouth ; not only in the heart , for

    when the prophets speak , > Mt is ( as Christ said ) not ye that speak , but the spirit of your Father that speaketh in you . ' And as he speaketh in : them , and by or through them , to others , he is also the word in the mouth as

    well as in the heart . As having a production , or as being begotten and brought forth in man in a state of dependence and want , and looking * up to a superior , preserver , feeder , and helper in every sense , he becomes a son ; and this was our Saviour ' s state in

    that body , and is the state of sonship in all . He was dependent , he was tried and tempted in all things as we are , hence his sympathy with all the seed ; he is touched with a feeling of all our infirmities ; is a merciful and

    faithful high priest ; and being himself tempted knows how to succour them that are tempted . He could do nothing without his Father ; * My Father worketh hitherto , and 1 work / said he . ' My Father is greater than I . '

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    268 Character and Writings of Job Scott 9 the American Quaker .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1825, page 268, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2536/page/12/