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Amicable Correspondence Relative to Some Popular Tenets as Held by the United Church of England and Ireland
Amicable Correspondence Relative to Some Popular Tenets as Held by the United Church of England and Ireland Author:A. B. Subtitle: Between A.b. and C.d., and E.f., Ed. by E.f. General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1862 Subjects: Religion / Christianity / Anglican Religion / Christianity / Denominations Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When... more » you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 26 lli M'. l. l. COKHI SI'UMiKM i; opposed to the Trinitarian doctrines, although not expressly- levelled at them, because, as I hold, those opinions were not then thought of. To one who addressed him as " Good Master," Jesus replied, " Why callest thou me good ? There is none good but one, that is God" (Matt. xix. 16, 17; Mark x. 17, 18; Luke xviii. 18, 19). To a Scribe, who inquired which was the first and great commandment, he said, " The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel, Jehovah our God is one God, Jehovah is one; and thou shalt love the Lord," etc. (Mark xii. 28, 29, 30). In his address to the Father, in John xvii., at verse 3, he says, "And this is life eternal, that they might kuow thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." Could any language more plainly distinguish Jehovah from Christ and all other beings than these passages do? His habit of prayer shows his dependence upon God. Hear his remarkable appeal from the cross: " My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Matt, xxvii. 46; Mark xv. 34). [Quaere: Had the second person of the Trinity also left him, in your opinion ?] Again, to the Disciples, after his resurrection, he says, " I ascend to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God" (John xx. 17). Then let us attend to his words in his exalted state: " Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which c...« less