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    he who abideth in love abideth in God , and God in him * 1 John iv . 13 , 16 . Our author attempts to resist this objection , by an appeal to the circumstances of the particular case in which " a oneness of power for the performance of works which imply omnipotence , " is the subject . We

    have already shewn that the circumstances of the case imply nothing of this kind . Our Lord is establishing his authority , and he proves it by an appeal to his miracles ; but if we interpret the words in which he declares his knowledge of the Divine counsels , and the extraordinary aid he receives from God , of a union of nature , we must in consistency believe also in a union of nature between Christ and his followers , and even between the

    all-perfect God himself and some of his creatures . We are astonished at the hardihood with which , in the face of such declarations as these , As the Father gave vie commandment even so I do ; The Son can do nothing of himself ; I can of mirie own self do nothing ; The Father that dwelleth in me He doeth the works ; Dr . S . asserts that

    < 6 Jesus Christ constantly speaks of himself as being , not an instrument only , but the agent , in works of miraculous power . " Again , " The apostles ascribed the final agency , " in the miracles which sanctioned their ministry , " to Christ as readily as to God the Father , " which is justified only by the words of Paul , in Rom . xv . 18 , " Christ wrought them through me ; " although it is expressly declared that Christ , in his exalted state , had received of God the power of communicating miraculous gifts to his disciples , which gifts might , therefore , be in a certain sense properly ascribed to him , though known to be manifestations of the power of God his Father . We must not repeat the evidence , that all who saw the miracles of our Lord considered them as proofs only that God was with him , and that his disciples ascribed his and their own powers ultimately to God alone , but we cannot suppress the expression of unfeigned wonder , that statements should be made in opposition , as it appears to us , to the plainest facts , and yet almost without the appearance of offering any thing in their justification ; and that on no better grounds , that we can perceive , than bold and unsupported assertion , Dr . S . should oppose himself to that interpretation of the passage we have been considering , which has been approved , not by Unitarians only , but by Erasmus , Calvin , Bucer , and the great majority of learned commentators , however sincere in their attachment to

    the doctrines of reputed orthodoxy . We select one more passage , and it is all that our limits will allow , from the volume now before us . It is the first section respecting Christ ' s descent from heaven , on John iii . 13 , " No one hath ascended into heaven , except he who descended from heaven , the Son of Man , who is in heaven . " These words , together with the preceding verse , are thus

    paraphrased by Dr . S . : " If ye are so averse from apprehending and embracing my testimony with respect to those subjects of religion which refer to your own reason

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    Dr . J . P . Smith ' s Scripture Testimony to the Messiah , 695

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1831, page 595, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2601/page/19/