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will venture to say that Jesus is not God. There may be
persons who assume to believe; but from the moment
they reject the spiritual character and relation of the Sa-
viour with the Father, there is a regular progression
downwards to infidelity. Some of them may endeavour
to stop. A few will say they will halt at one point, and a
few at another. But they cannot stay, and this the most
candid among them will admit. The real danger then of
Unitarianism is that they call themselves by a fal:
saying that they are Christians when they are n.
If they really believed in the inspiration of the Bible
they could

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not attribute to Jesus anything but divinity.
They must find there that He was in the beginning with
God. Not that there was any creation of Him made, but
that He made all things. The Unitarians, on the con-
trary, asserted that there was first a creation made of
Him, and a further creation, or, as they translated it,
"by Him the world was constituted." It was positively
asserted, moreover, in Scripture, that all things were
known to Jesus. If that were so, He could not possess
such knowledge merely as a man. What man among us,
looking back to past ages, to the countless succession of
'‘ tinges even on the face of the earth which geology de-
strates to us, can say that he knows all the history of
the present, and the future. If we but look into
we shall see what complexity there is in '-
,To to search tl

arselves

le numberless combinations of
nd science, we shall at once perceive how im-
possible it would be for any feeble, finite man to master
all the knowledge of the past alone. The intelligence of
the Saviour then is as superior to our intelligence as the
substance is to the shadow. How, indeed, if He were but
man, can the Unitarian believe the passages of the Bible
which say that when He laid the foundations of the world
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,te stars sung together; and that the Deity ..
aimed, " Thou art my beloved Son ; this day hit.
!" With regard to the worship of God
related by Mr. Ilaylee of a man whom

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an anecd(

he reproved for working on a Sunuay. _
himself by saying, " Is not God also working 0..
day?" The answer to this was that men were under the law
of God; to which He was not himself subject. If He were
to suspend His works on the Sabbath Day, He would be
less than the Sabbath which He created for our good. He
is the Holy Sabbath himself, and the day is His. The
same observation was made by our Saviour himself, who

aid to the J

ing their Sabbai
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when they complained of Him for break-
, " My Father worketh hitherto, and I
rein declared that God was His Fathpr.

_..g the cost of an illuminated clock
Receipts : December, 1850. £1,323 Bs. Bd. ; December
1851, £1,301 ss. 3d. From April 23 to December 3'
1850, £15,383 6s. 3d. ; ditto, 1851, £14,921 12s. le
Total expenditure from April 23 to December,
fhe man justified £10,799 16s. ld. Mr. Brine and Mr. Gallotrav
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