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  ^ Th £# aftetf reading PfcUi ^ piatas ir . 6 ^ 8 ; said , that Christ bought ^ it iiot fofcbery to be equal " with God , that lie was fcqual With ' £ dd aud becdnfe God incarnate . To this I said , that Christ being in the form of Godis a clear proof that he was not really God ; he was in the form of God by the miraculous power that was given to him ; this power he made no use of for his own benefit bat suffered all the indignities am ! death as if he had no power at all to
  
  keep himself ; these are all the changes that the above passages speak of . For thus submitting to the will and pleasure of Gody God hath highly exalted him . IfGhrist was God equal to the Father , as ydii 4 titerj > retv how could the Father e xaitfhtm & all ? They , however , did not pay much attention to what I said : here I wished to readthe above passages , and the noteR on them in the Improved Vto % \ 6 n of the New Testament which
  
  I took with me , but they would not admit its authority . « They having read John xx . 28 , asked an * , * If Christ was not God , why did he not reprove Thomas for calling him God ? I said there was no occasion at all to reprove him , for by those words , * My Lord and my God , ' he meant God himself , whose power had restored Christ to life again . Will the resurrection of Christ
  
  prove him to be God to Thomas , who before said , 'Except I shall see in his hands the £ rint of the nails , and put my finger into the < flrlnt of the nails , and thrust my hand into his aide , I will not belike * ? ' - ' That is , he will not believe that Christ ? was alive ; and if Christ did uot ' appear' to the Satisfaction of Thomas ' as he wished , it appears froiW Christ's answer to him ( verSS 29 ) , tnait he would neVer believe e " ven in his i * e-
  
  surrectioiiyandho # is it possible that h £ should ever believe him to be the itemortalGod ? ' ' ¦ riJ : - -i' \ : ] > " -- ' * ' After this they tfrderetf % he naHv" 6 preacher to read iin Tamil ; ' iFbHii . Mfc 40 , 41 , and the 6 th chapter of fHaiali through : the preache * jhilvtti ^ doji 0 So ' , then they said that theLbrd of 'Hosts In Isaiah , according to the ' Evangelist MM ; is Chrbt , and he Clniat ap ^ retl and » poke tb Isaiah ; MJpori ; tHW I ' a ^ M
  
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  tW $ i ^ w ^ HelbVd 6 f tidtitsMWUdfo Wm ^ ws t WS $ f ifeagem Mlj ?» 8 t ihil& ! rW c ^^ efeaWamtl ^ aeSi ^ MfTOprft im fixm # W $ B diW / 't ^ % ' nmf ^ M ^^ w ^ &m ^ W \ Wry # do £ ^ eaKeff ^ fnr c Eu 2 fiffl } " iSSScrto ^ s ; % 4 T # ultf hWoty % W ' ti \ PM $ Vnoiigh'tb ^ e ^/ m ^ f ^ of /^ i iSli to ffltlr ^ sti otk- ^ Ajr faf SI J ^ ie ^ lecV ' the above is the sutjsta ^ ce dt our crtuversa-Hioh . In tjhe end , ^ ithe i- thin k ^ g ^ Hat'I was irrec «> verable to their persuasidn ^ or
  
  wishing to discountenance me in the ^ yes of my countrymen , of their perswasloti , that were the audience , they ordered the native preacher again to read in Tamil , Acts xxviii . 25 — 27 . H 6 having finished reading , just as I was going to observe to them that the speaker in
  
  Isaiah was not Christ , as they interpreted , but the holy spirit , they , without waiting to hear me , suddenly got up and went upon their knees to prayer . After prayer they shook hands with me . Before I took my leave , 1 gave into the hand of the Rev . Mr . Saidler a printed catalogue
  
  of ray printed Tracts , and told him that from those tracts they will understand my views much better than they can learn from me through my bad English in a short conversation . To this he said , I think that as I do not understand the
  
  original languages , they would not criticise ^ or would not think it worth their while to criticise those works , or something t 6 that purpose . Ttoefc I took my leave and came away . " Iu the begtoniugof our conversation , while relating the history of imyoivn con version , I told them that the Athanasian Creed in the Bddk of £ orfrfai 6 n grayer had uearly set me ^ asti ^ \ M ^ rb' ^ detitially for me , by reading i \ ip ttev ; Tlifeo . philus Lindsey's List iff Kl ^ efteaaito of the Scripture ^ and t !^ e jJil Wtrafi ^ oiis of the English Btote ^ rw ^ s e ' jicMr ^ to think foi myself . '' We ^ toll ! % c that they themselves ; $ ty ' %# iir ( i .. the Athauatsian Cr ^ ed , and wilr not , sfi ^ ak A & _ jt '« - liV 1 ti iiH ~ . tl 7 *
  
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- Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1828, page 873, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2567/page/73/

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