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ner stone of our faith. Are we not Christians?

If you pass over his instructions, say that they are not sufficiently comprehensive and complete; give a preference to those of Paul, as more full and intelligible and satisfactory-what would you reply if we were to charge you with not being Christians, and to endeavour to stigmatize you with some such reproachful epithets as the followers of Paul? You do not allow the followers of Mahomet to be Christians, though Mahomet acknowledged Jesus to be a prophet sent by God; you call them Mahometans. But far be such conduct from us as to wish to stigmatize you. Only let us share the Christian appellation with you.

Another question I must ask. Who has the greatest right to the title evangelical? What does evangelical mean? Does it mean that a person forms his opinions from the evangelists, or from the epistles? If a person were to take his faith entirely from the epistles as the standard of truth, and make the evangelist's and our Savi3 P

7th, Jesus was raised from the grave, not by his own power, but by the mighty power of God; and by him exalted to great power and glory.

8th, After this exaltation, and after the apostles had received the Holy Spirit, they speak of Jesus as having received his powers from God, and as the servant of God, and they speak of him as man, without guard or comment: Paul even reasons from his being man, without giving any intimation that he was possessed of any superior nature.

9th, The example of Jesus, (which is of the most interesting and engaging kind, peculiarly calculated to affect the heart of his disciples, and to excite to the imitation of him,) consists of human excellencies; and its essential and characteristic value depends upon his having been truly and properly man.

10th, The prophets speak of the Messiah as a man.

11th, The Jews expected that the Messiah would be a man.

12th, The gospels throughout, represent Jesus as a man, acting under a most honourable and important commission.

13th, Of the eight apostles and evangelists whose writings are contained in the New Testament, five, (viz. Matthew, Mark, Luke, James, and Jude,) have said nothing which presents any difficulty against the opinion, that Jesus was, as to nature, simply a man; though Matthew, Mark, and Luke, have given an account of his ministry, and Luke of the first preaching of the apostles.

14th, Though, if Jesus were a great pre-existent being, the fact could be known only by express revelation, and the whole importance of the fact must depend upon its being known, yet we no where meet with any express declaration of it.

15th, On various occasions where there was a suitable opportunity for the declaration of the doctrine of pre-existence, either by Jesus himself or by his apostles, we meet with nothing of the kind; but on the contrary, we find the most complete silence as to a superior nature, where our Lord spoke of his own claims, and where the apostles were replying to his enquiries, whom they thought him to be.

16th, The apostle Paul and 'the writer to the Hebrews, reason from our Lord's being man; and in 1 Cor. xv. the apostle's reasonings are entirely founded upon his being, as to nature, in all things like his brethren, and they have force upon that supposition only.

17th, The language of our Saviour himself leads to the same conclusion.

Carpenter's Unitarianism the Doctrine of the Gospel.

SIXTH SERIES.

1st, The total silence of the evangelists Matthew, Mark, and Luke, concerning our Lord's pre-existence and divinity, is utterly unaccountable, if these stupendous facts are true and were known to those writers.

2nd, The pre-existence and divinity of Christ are no where taught as doctrines of revelation, but are left to be inferred from indirect arguments, obscure phraseology, and ambiguous hints.

3d. The apostles either did or did not know of the pre-existent state and dignity of Christ, during his personal ministry,

and while they were personally, conversant with him. If they were informed of these facts, no marks of astonishment appear at the time of discovery. If they were not, it must be acknowledged that every expression used by Jesus was understood by them as applying to him as a

man.

4th, The Jews in the apostolic age never charged the Christians with polytheism or idolatry.

5th, Christ is repeatedly and emphatically called a man even after his resurrection and ascension.

6th, Jesus calls himself the Son of man; which was a common periphrasis for a man himself.

7th, Christ appeared as a man, with all the attributes and feelings of a human being; and he was universally regarded as such by those who saw and conversed with him. He was born into the world as other men; had a mean education ; felt, conversed, and acted as a human being; sustained the infirmities of human nature, and suffered and died like other

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