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    ^ . tid misrepreseutkig * the common translatio n I am content * to follow J . M . at . a very hiitiibl e ^ ^ fet ai ^ e ^ ^ .-l ^' caii-hoasKBO such alteration of it as feia fajnous <* probaMy triae nendetin ^ & £ $ & % ii . 6 ; nor any misrepresentation of it equal Vo hik m ^ t ? p fe&xi ( & ing the apostleas usingihe word& {>< ff ( xrftxcz , whtnheuB& 3 &e < tf ^ £ fi&T

    a word of quite a different meaning . ^ } Two remaining passages of the New Testament he allows td be cited by me in its real language , and hemoreovet allows them to relate to Christ ; bat he denies that they contain any thing like an assertion that Christ is God . The title of King of kings and L&rd of lords , seems to me far-too high a one to have beenk everaoplied by an inspired writer to a ifleteirian . J . M . allows that

    it is applied to Christ . But St . John tells us , that it is the title of the Word of God . Therefore J . M . must allow , that the Word of God is Christ . But St . John tells us that the Word of God is God . Therefore J . M * must either allow , that Christ is God , or deny that Christ is the Word . He allows however , that Christ is the Word . He must allow therefore , that , when St . John says the Wwrd is God , he in fact gays Christ is God . Nor is this the only passage , in whichChrist is expressly styled God . Isaiah , as we have seen , calls him the mighty God i and St > John , himself elsewhere says of the Son Jesus

    Christy This is the true God . I John v * 20 . With respect to the otfcer title , which J . M . allows to be a title of Chrisi , if the passage which contains it were the only one of such a nature in the whole Bible . I would be content to rest ray belief in the

    divinity of Christ upon it alone . cc lam Alpha and Otnega , the beginning and the ending , saith the Lord , which is / and which . was , and which is to come , the Almighty . I am Alpha and Onaega , the first and the last . I turned to see the voice that spakq wjth rne . And , being turned , I saw seven goJden ' candlesticks ,, and in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like * unto the son of man . And he laid his right hand upon me ,

    saying xuito me , Fear not , I am the first and the last : 1 am he thatliveth and was dead . " Rev . L 8 . 1 J , 12 , 13 . 17 , 18 . The voice , that St . John heard , was the voice of the son of man , of him that Jiveth and was dead ; the voice therefore of Christ . St . John consequently heard Christ declare himself to be , Alpha and Omega , the first and the last , the beginning and the endmgy which was , and which is , and which is to come , the Al-^ i ^ ty . Now l , et any unprejudiced person judge , whether " £ , . who . claims such titles , can be a mere man ; whether , on the ^ ontrajr jv hc must not be the eternal and almighty God . A iT ^ ere man oaiiuot be both Alpha and . Omegrd , the first and the *'

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1807, page 527, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2385/page/19/