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    rect in several places , and not a few of the inaccuracies will be found to affect the awful subject I have ventured to discMss . Lastly , I feel perfectly satisfied that the doctrine here stated is that which was taught by our blessed Lord and his apostles . " Mr . Shaw then proceeds to examine the passages adduced by Mr , Jones in proof of the Deity of Christ . In the course of his remarks , he very properly reprobates as mischievous the practice ( which Mr . Jones and some other writers constantly adopt ) of bringing detached sentences from distant parts of the Scripture and joining them together : the most absurd doctrines may appear to be proved by it ; and the Bible is brought into contempt by frequently making it seem to contradict itself . Of this mode of imagined proof , the following , amongst others , is one on which Mr . Shaw animadverts .

    Isaiah hii . 11 , compared with 2 Pet . iiu 18 : "I , even I , am the Lord , and besides me there is no Saviour . " •« Our Lord and Saviour Jesus

    Christ . " The words Lord and Saviour occur in both of these texts . In the first , they are applied to the Father , and in the second , to the Son , and therefore Mr . Jones conceives that the doctrine of co-equality is established . " Jesus Christ is a Saviour , therefore he is Jehovah the Lord : Jesus Christ is Jehovah , therefore he is the Saviour . " On this Mr . Shaw observes ,

    " If we follow Mr . Jones ' s system , we shall need to be extremely circumspect in our mode of expression . No orthodox writer would deny that Jehovah is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ . Yet if we say Jehovah is Christ , and Christ is Jehovah , it is orthodox ; but if we say the Father is the Son , and the Son is the Father , which is in truth the very same , it is heresy and nonsense .

    " The two texts quoted by Mr . Jones are easily understood , if we read them in simplicity ; but his notions make the Bible unintelligible . The Almighty Father is declared to be the Creator of the world , yet it is said that the world was made by Christ . Again , the Father hath said , ¦ ' Thou shalt know that I , the Lord , am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer . ' Yet of Christ it is said , that * he is the Saviour of the world / and that he hath * redeemed us to God by his blood . ' Both originated in the power and love of God , and were accomplished through the ministration of his ever-blessed Son .

    " It is distressing to find a man of Mr . Jones ' s learning and p iety closing ' his comments upon these two texts with a garbled and misapplied quotation from Phil . ii . 9 . The text , if he had quoted fairly , would have been decidedly against him , for it runs thus : — ' Wherefore God also hath highly emalted him , and given him a name , which is above every name . ' The Apostle concludes with these words , ' That every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord , to the glory of God the Father . How either co- equality or underived power can be proved from this passage is to me inconceivable . "

    Most frequent are the complaints which Mr . Shaw has to make of the manner in which Mr . Jones wrests the Scriptures to his purpose . " The manner in which Mr . Jones uses the Holy Scriptures , makes it a distressing task to follow him through his arguments . "— ' He continually perplexes himself and his readers with incomplete or unfair quotations . " The following contains an important truth : " We seldom meet with a text in the Bible which seems to give any countenance to this doctrine of the co-e < juality of our Lord with the Almighty Father , but is preceded or immediately followed by a plain denial of it . "

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    Confessions of a Member of the Church of England . 27

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1831, page 27, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2593/page/27/