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CHAPTER IV.
On the Editor s Replies to the Arguments contained in
* Chapter II. of the Second Appeal.
To my inquiry in the Second Appeal, " Have we not
his (Christ's) own express and often repeated avowal,
that all the powers he manifested were committed to him
as the Son, by the Father of the universe ?" the Editor
thus replies in the negative (page 588): "No-,—that he
was appointed by the Father to act as mediator between
him and sinners, we have already seen ; for without this
he could have been no mediator between his Father and
his offending creatures." Every unbiassed man may
easily pronounce, whether it is consistent with any ra-
tional idea of the nature of the Deity, that God should
be appointed by God, to " act the part of a mediator," by
" laying aside his glory, and taking on himself the form
of a servant f and may discern, whether it is not most
foreign to the notion of the immutable God, that circum-
stances could produce such a change in the condition
of the Deity, as that he should have been not only
divested of his glory for more than thirty years, but even
subjected to servitude ? Are not the ideas of supreme
dominion and that of subjection, just as remote as the
ea>t from the west ? Yet the Editor says, that while he
was stripping himself of his glory, and taking upon
himself the form of a servant, he was just as much
Jehovah as before.
The Editor, in common with other Trinitarians, con-
ceives, that God the Son, equally with God the Father,
("according to their mode of expression,) is possessed of
On the Editor s Replies to the Arguments contained in
* Chapter II. of the Second Appeal.
To my inquiry in the Second Appeal, " Have we not
his (Christ's) own express and often repeated avowal,
that all the powers he manifested were committed to him
as the Son, by the Father of the universe ?" the Editor
thus replies in the negative (page 588): "No-,—that he
was appointed by the Father to act as mediator between
him and sinners, we have already seen ; for without this
he could have been no mediator between his Father and
his offending creatures." Every unbiassed man may
easily pronounce, whether it is consistent with any ra-
tional idea of the nature of the Deity, that God should
be appointed by God, to " act the part of a mediator," by
" laying aside his glory, and taking on himself the form
of a servant f and may discern, whether it is not most
foreign to the notion of the immutable God, that circum-
stances could produce such a change in the condition
of the Deity, as that he should have been not only
divested of his glory for more than thirty years, but even
subjected to servitude ? Are not the ideas of supreme
dominion and that of subjection, just as remote as the
ea>t from the west ? Yet the Editor says, that while he
was stripping himself of his glory, and taking upon
himself the form of a servant, he was just as much
Jehovah as before.
The Editor, in common with other Trinitarians, con-
ceives, that God the Son, equally with God the Father,
("according to their mode of expression,) is possessed of