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NUMBER III.
descent on Jesus Christ, when baptized, in the shape of
a dove, and in the latter to his having begot Christ by;
a woman not married to him, as is evident from their
Scriptures : " She was found with child of the Holy
Ghost": f "The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee."J
Both of these circumstances is solemnly acknowledged
by the Editor. But whence or how the Editor infers
again my misrepresentation of the fact, and my attempt
to ridicule the doctrine, I am unable to discover.
As to my fourth question viz. "They say that God
must be worshipped in spirit and yet they worship Jesus
Christ as very God, although he is possessed of a material
body," the Editor has given an evasive answer ; for he
says, " Christians worship Jesus Christ and not his body
separately from him." I never charged Christians in
my question with worshipping the body of Jesus Christ
separately from himself, that the Editor could be justi-
fied in denying Christians' having worshipped him and
not his body. The Editor in fact confesses their adora-
tion of Jesus Christ as the very God in the material
form : nevertheless he attempts to maintain that they
worship God in spirit. If we admit that the worship
of spirit possessed of material body is worship in spirit,
we must not any longer impute idolatry to any religious
sect, for none of them adore mere matter unconnected
with spirit. Did the Greeks and Romans worship the
bodies of Jupiter and Juno and their other supposed
gods separately from their respective spirits ? Are not
the miraculous works ascribed by them to these gods,
t Matthew, Chap. I. v. 18 —J Luke, chap. I. v. 35,—(Notes,
of the third edition.—Ed.)
descent on Jesus Christ, when baptized, in the shape of
a dove, and in the latter to his having begot Christ by;
a woman not married to him, as is evident from their
Scriptures : " She was found with child of the Holy
Ghost": f "The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee."J
Both of these circumstances is solemnly acknowledged
by the Editor. But whence or how the Editor infers
again my misrepresentation of the fact, and my attempt
to ridicule the doctrine, I am unable to discover.
As to my fourth question viz. "They say that God
must be worshipped in spirit and yet they worship Jesus
Christ as very God, although he is possessed of a material
body," the Editor has given an evasive answer ; for he
says, " Christians worship Jesus Christ and not his body
separately from him." I never charged Christians in
my question with worshipping the body of Jesus Christ
separately from himself, that the Editor could be justi-
fied in denying Christians' having worshipped him and
not his body. The Editor in fact confesses their adora-
tion of Jesus Christ as the very God in the material
form : nevertheless he attempts to maintain that they
worship God in spirit. If we admit that the worship
of spirit possessed of material body is worship in spirit,
we must not any longer impute idolatry to any religious
sect, for none of them adore mere matter unconnected
with spirit. Did the Greeks and Romans worship the
bodies of Jupiter and Juno and their other supposed
gods separately from their respective spirits ? Are not
the miraculous works ascribed by them to these gods,
t Matthew, Chap. I. v. 18 —J Luke, chap. I. v. 35,—(Notes,
of the third edition.—Ed.)