The Bampton Lecturer Reproved; Being a Reply to the Calumnious Charges of the Rev. C. A. Moysey ... in His Late Bampton Lectures Against the Unitarians, and Especially the Editors of the Improved Version [of the New Testament]; in Letters to a Friend. To which is Annexed a Letter, in Reply to the Charges of the Very Reverend Dean Magee, in ... His Dissertations on Atonement and Sacrifice

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unitarian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and the Practice of Virtue, 1819 - 182 páginas

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Página 102 - And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off; it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched, where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Página 54 - Verily I say unto you, that ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Página 156 - Now the just shall live by faith; but if any man draw back," etc. The proper translation is, " but if he draw back." The italicized words in John iii, 34, " God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him" improperly limit the sense, and should be omitted.
Página 124 - So likewise the Father is Almighty, the Son Almighty : and the Holy Ghost Almighty. And yet there are not three Almighties : but one Almighty.
Página 125 - And the argument rests on a principle which was common to all the Platonic fathers, and seems to be founded in Scripture, that the existence of the Son flows necessarily from the Divine Intellect exerted on itself, from the Father's contemplation of his own perfections. But as the Father ever was, his perfections have ever been, and his intellect hath been ever active.
Página 16 - For the right faith is, that we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and man : God, of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds ; and man, of the substance of his mother, born in the world...
Página 139 - Reverend writer has selected as an4' important" instance in which the editors aforesaid have " deKl-crately ,"• and, as he elegantly expresses it, " unacknoiclcdgcdly rejected and altered the Primate's rendering," is, Luke i. 35, thus translated by Dr. Newcome: " Therefore that holy child also who shall be born of thee, shall be called The Son of God." The editors substitute " A Son of God," and they have omitted to acknowledge the variation. Upon this most important distinction between A Son and...
Página 21 - To this it is likely it will be objected by some, that to believe only that Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah, is but an historical and not a justifying or saving faith. To which I answer, that I allow to the makers of systems, and their followers, to invent and use what distinctions they please, and to call things by what names they think fit. But I cannot allow them, or to any man, an authority to make a religion for me, or to alter that which God hath revealed.
Página 22 - Saviour's and his apostles' preaching, we have showed through the whole history of the evangelists and the Acts. And I challenge them to show that there was any other doctrine, upon their assent to which, or disbelief of it, men were pronounced believers or unbelievers ; and, accordingly received into the church of Christ, as members of his body, as far as mere believing could make them so, or else kept out of it : this was the only gospel article of faith which was preached to them. And if nothing...

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