Messiah's proper deity, argued from Scripture; also, His atonement and the divinity of the holy Spirit with strictures on the way of a sinner's acceptance with God, and on some Unitarian publications - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1807 Excerpt: ...as their Leader and King, the symbol of whose presence as such went before t'nem in the pillar of cloud and fire; and him also who was given as their Guide to the land of upright. ness, and whom Stephen charged both fathers and children with resisting? Psal. cxliii. 10. Acts vii. 51. To ascribe these things to the Father, would be to contradict his own testimony, and lubvert the order which he hath established in the economy of man's redemption. Does not the Father say--" I have set my king upon my holy hill of Zion?" (Psal. ii. 6.) but what truth or consistency could there be in this declaration, if Messiah never ruled as King in and over the Jewish church, or if he began to exist only when that Church, denoted by God'f holy hill of Zion, was just ceasing to be the seat of his government, and given up to be trodden under foot of the Gentiles? This gross absurdity, however, which really gives the lie to the Father, necessarily follows from their system who confme the existence of Messiah, by his incarnation, and his assuming the kingdom or government appointed, to hit ascension; thus leaving no room whatever for the Father's setting him upon his holy hill of Zion, or committing the administration of the Jewish church and state into his hands?--How can the Jewish state of things be called a Theocracy, or a form of government, in which God immediately ruled in their sacred and civil affairs, if he actually exercised no such jurisdiction over that people? The Father did it not, nor indeed, consistently could, having delegated this trust to Messiah, and actually established his throne in Zion; which he owns to be for ever and ever, commencing so soon as ages began, (Psal. xlv. 6.) and continuing, under different forms of administration, till ages fini...
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