The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1823-08-15

be neither sin, sorroning, crying aor death
--ne5lker SHALL we need The light OF the
mann nor SUI, far God shall dwell IN the
CIV Tue hsht of The New Jerusalem Is
the Lamb Aud il does not say lhai there
/ shall be no sin, nor sorrow, nsr death, nc
Iin the world But these things are fulfilled
/ IN SPIRIT to iiie trne luembers oflhe Lords
/ New Church and We would say To YOU,
Z. come aud &c BY the divine truth arr
nr madu free from the law OF aiH-by Our
view 81 divine providence We learn Ia rye.
- slate t. b., c0nieal---by our doctrines We
az taught that man ufrfr dtea-hnt - Is
much . nan after he throws off tie male
rial loay as he eas before am Cod even
The Lamb Is our light and wc do not
med any eiher ligbi Than that wt1ch pro
eecds Gom," tn only intse God, orr Sa-
eionr.n Thus, amid The very Iniseries Of
man, the pearl gotfs 81 the hcdoeniy truths
Of The New Jerusalem, expand to receive
! md comfort those who have died daily,
With the fear Of death, and been agitated
and disturbed by every wind Of doctrine,
holding 10 ne hHfr aehieh kiAeth.'
Youunext ebieciionisie yelledat our doc
lrinc Of the trinity and you wish 1s to
! Xplain our views OF lhe divine humanity Of
| ChnH You ask, II II would not br as
consistent 10 call the divinity of Christ,
human divinity, as divine humanity Aud
then 20 on 10 put an answerin our mouths,
which a new church man could never have
thought Of You may answer me by
saying that divinity which created all
this, can by miracle change one substance
into another, aud consequently humanity
into divinity unt read this part OF
your leuer, supposed that you bad read
with attention, some of Our works, but
this couyInces me you have not, or you
would never have thought Of putting such
words IN our mouths 4 ou seem to consi
der humanity rs entirely belonging 10 the
material body aud inscpatable theroirom,
and, II you imagine w tank thai the Halu-
raj b0dy of Jesus WIS irdHsmuttd INTO d
uhtfy, we can no nIOre conceive of this,
fhan wr can Of the discovery of the phila-
supher's stone. We would ask YOU what
constitutes us men Is II not our mind or
rational faculties From whener is this
derived, by conception from the fniher or
| the mother lsit mol evident ON the
| principles of phisyoluBy, thai IL Is derived
| from the father Nov, had Christ hu-
man father Ii mol, then, lac had not q
human Soid. jehovah WAS the father Of
thai holy ttipg which was born OF the Yir-
gin May, aud all that was taken from the
mother, WAS The ouiirart tabernacle, TO
which life was communicated 10y the in
dalhng dtlnriiy. This material human,
we belletr, VAS pal oil by successive acts,
aud a humanity from tue father assumed
or NJ Oh ths we call the divine human
er divine humanity, and worship Jesus
Christ accordingly as divine man or God
IN human form. So you perceive we are
mol guilty Of the unphiosophIca idea Of
matter being changed into spirit Or diriniig.
| for we beleteAt out ot the order OF Omuipo=
tencc 10 effect a change ia the nature OF
mattel which, however, yOn afterwards
declare is done, when You speak Of the re
surreelon OF the body. You wish 10 know
whether it would mol be ~ correct TO say
human dir1niig, as divine humanity. |
presume that YOU have asked this question
without much reflection, as II IS not proba-
BILE, that you arr mol acquainted with the
naitwe ol thc adjective, when qualifying Il
substantive, as 10 ask such one II YOU
are acquainted, your own understanding
will give yon IA satisfactory answer. Asa
il is pity that Yen could not have exam
lned the original Greek, and you would
have found the passage that you qaotcd,
instead ri tdvonng your opinion, Is direct
" against you The word spirit. in Greek
u u noun ot the nenter gender, and the
lrelallNc prononns referring 10 IT, are neuter
,lsu. There Is II striking example at this
IN the 18th verse Of The 1Ith chapter of
ljohni which ought In have been translated
as follows; The spirit of truth rtich the
world cannot receive, beeause il sccth II
not, neither knoWotIl Il, bat ye know il, for
lRdHelIeth with you, and shall be in YOU
! ga wish 10 prove, The Lord Jesus rose
nltIlhls natural body For this purpose, yon
relrr Ia the circumstances of1hamas being
permitted To touch and handle the redeem
~. Bat do we not read of that very trans
action, that he came and stood inthc midst
OF them, when the doors were shtn -
Now, could mere mcteriality do this p
And II II We're not merely material, you
must invent for us, sumt more expressive
term than djrine humanity if you be dis
satisfied with that used 10y MS. But how
VIII you account for the Lords refusing
Mary Ia touch him, because he had not net
dSceaded 10 the taiher, while yet he grants
unto Thomas the favor, while the same
reason would hold good in the latter as in
the former case But that the rrsurrec-
tlon body of the Lord was not material, is
evident from the circumstance of his being
invisible la all except to those whose spri-
tual eyes were opened. " Their eyes were
opened aud they knew him" Luke xiv.
81. But still you may urge, that Jesus
said, d" Handle me aud see - +" Reach hi.
Their thy finger and behold my hands, and
reach n'her thy hand and thurst into my
side" Bot IN what state were the apostles
al this time ; We're they not in the spirit /?
II 50, then sfiritaaiiy, ard not p,aietiRig
they handed him. With regard to the
dn nifty of Christ, we need bring no proof,
for You acknowledge Jesus Christ to be
God And. ii he hp "A God tben I'm &c fla