Columbus Whig. (Columbus, Miss.) 1843-18??, 1844-02-29

fore, as Christ prayed TO God, he declared i,
that act his ifferiurity and depeeGence. WheT
the hour oftrial came ppon him, and when n
| was about 70 be delivered ifit1 the hands of hi;
enemies TO be cfucifed. three times did he pray
IN agony, TO God, that he might be excused thai
cup # bitterness ; but nevertheless. said he, "nO
| nay rtLtg but Lhi ne be DONE" And when his en-.
emios came upon him, he would not permit his
discipfesto resist. but told them that ifhe would
| "IM could pray TO his Father, and his Father
scOufn efre aim more than twelve legions cf an
| gels to defend HIM" The four books ofthe Evan.
gelists abound with evidences of this character
bat as asfsw only will be necessary. shall, for
obvious reasons select them from john Chm
v. 30. II can cf n4lne OlDR self do nothing as
hear, Fudge aR4 nay judgment is Just ; be-
cause seek not me cssn sciu but the aoiu Of the
elf ye Keep Nv commandments, We shall abide iS
in my love ;cyen as I haze kept ma Father's
comm Gndments. ard abide in his love-" Chan,
XVII: 3. 4. "And this is life eternal. that thew
might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus
Christ GchOnT thau hqst sent. I have glori6ed
thee on the earth 81 have finished the work
sch'eh thOn g0oesf me to do" g. For have Civ
Ell unto them the words anAich thou gapest me /:
and they have received hem. and hav known
surely that came out Tsn hReeand they have be.
lleved that thou didsG send me-" These uassa.
ges, selected without much care, will recall 10
the reader multitude Of others HAch confirm
them. Thus did Christ always speak OF his
power On earth as being deriyative. and not ORIG.
lnalty his own and Of his Father as being grea-
ter than himself, and the "only true God
Even his enemies. who crucifed him for his
PretehsIons, and who ere disposed TO inagnify
them, thus tainted him with what thew conce,v.
ed to be his most presumptuous boast 1T he
be King OF Israel, let him now come Gown from
the cross, and we will believe him. He trusted
IN God let him deliver him now, if he W III have
him Tor he said, l am the Son of God.''
but II Christ had been God, surely those who
lived lii his day and listened TO his instructions
those who fOrsook all and followed him, though
desP;sed and prosecuted for their devotion to
him. would have known and worshpped him =
such. Yet so definite and clear was the distinc.
ton which he drew between himself ana God so
repeatedly did he inform them that his power
on earth wGs not originally his own, bnt given
him by his Father, and so invariably did he di-
rect their alteration and their thoughts 10 hirr
as the only true and everlasting God, that not
one of them doubted or -mistook his character
And even Martha, woman as she was, and llust-
ing with the hnbounded confidence and love of
wofnant never thought of him as God Omnrpo.
tent himself; as is manifest from her language
to him. after Lazarus, her brother, died--"If
thou; hadst been here my brother had not died !;
but know that, even now, whatsoever thou " lit
ask Of God, he dciH gire 1t tAee.''
Peter, one Of his apostles, spoke thus Of him
JO A1Su VI dGI ue lLA6S0 WOFOSs Jesus OF
Nazareth, a man approved Of God, among you nv
miracles and wonders and signs. aohich God By
him, did in the midst Of you, &c. This Jesus
hath God raised up! He having receioed of the
Father the promise Of the Holy Ghost hat shed
forth this &c.'' And ST. Paul, to the church al
CorInth, says.--''Ye belong to Christ. and Christ
TO God. The head of every man is Christ, and
the head of Christ is God. There is none other
God but one. Then coneth the end, when he
(Christ) shalt hare detieered up the Kingdom to
God even the Father. And when all things
shall have been subdued unto him. then shall the
Con himseb be subject untOhint, ii put all things
under him, that God may be all in al!."
Hence, if the prophecies which relate to Christ
dcllneate his true charact Christ himself
gave a correct account of his own power, and Of
his true attitude to God-if his followers under>
stood correctly the lessons which he taught them
and if his apostles comprehended what they
published, and published what is true, / infer
(and the inference is rresistiblel that Christ is
not God. aud there is no God but one.
VIR SIMPLEX.
p s. Whilst was writing the above, the
last columbus Democrat" was brought into me,
in which discovered that some gentleman has
been examining my first communication to you,
and thinks he has discovered in it some errors OF
style. true, he is welcome to all the credit, to
which such discovery should entitle him. But
] must inform him, that When wrote that artl>
cIe I had no expectation that its merits would
be tried BY the rules Of rhetoric and grammar !;
nor did I care, so it was understood, whether 1t
was polished in its style or not.
He Inferh; too, from its contents, that am
'sgentleman Uf age" To this conclusion he was
led ..bv chari1v,'' With the same charity drew
different inference from hist for if that be an
index to his age, he must be very young not
even old enough it seems. TO comprehend Ian
puaee winch, when wrote it, / was sure that
no one who should read it, would be so young as
to blunder al. And because he cannot under
stand it, he thinks am not qualified to throw
much light" on gospel doctrines. And l admit
most frankly, that if there he any who cannot
COMPREHEND the language which he calls myste>
rious, have no hopes of cdifYing them.
But for fear Of suffering very much from his
severe oDinio1 of my style, beg leave to vindi-
cate it: He says it is pathology to say the
Christian religion and particularly ITS doctrines
command attention. because the christian rell>
gion and its doctrines mean the same thing
but they ale not the same and Inc proprIety Of
using both to convey my meaning, t seems to
me is obvious. In the first pace the christian
religion. iii regard to its truth OF fasehood. Ir-
respective of its particular doctrines, IS subject
of attention, and in the next, 1t Is subject OF
controversy-what are the doctrines, or the lem
cts which It teaches. And the charge of tautol-
oCv iri fhe next sentence, in which speak Of
| "both the authority and sOundness OF certain
doctrines" is equally unjust. deny their 0u>
fkorav because they are unfounded Upon the
Bible, and then, as doctrines independent OF the
RibIe deny their sONRdRess, because they are
ast 10 the following sentence, because it !, 70
Hutfety DARK and uaintslg ;ha LINGERING crime
remnants Of those christian errors which grew
out oftho ignorance and false religions that pre-
vailed in tie early and dark ages OF the chnrcn'
when the fountains of the gospel though cue
! mating unadulterated and pure from their Sacrea
+ source. mingled with the general corTuPtions o.
/ societvtand became themselves impure" Now
ifthis be sutterly dark and 70 MIN
! I do not wonder he considers The Bible book o.
,,,yster;ea. He in truth, is not qualified to IN
derstand it. But the difficulty is. that ne does
not know the meaning of lingering remnants
d.od reaIlv so ignorant, he is certainly too hope
less to Justify the labor Of explaining. "
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