one God, have mercy upon us miserable sinners ?”✦ No, his words are-After this manner pray ye, Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, For thine is the kingdom, and the poner, and the glory, for ever, Amen. We affirm therefore, that it is the solemn and indispensible duty of all Christians, to regulate their worship according to this perfect pattern of pray. er; for if ever the commands of Jesus were authoritative, if ever his directions were complete, they must be conceived to be so in this instance, as it regards an act the most important, upon which he could convey instruction, and the most intimately connected with the great object of his Mission. We affirm more; we contend that Jesus Christ himself invariably invoked the Father in his modest, but animated and effectual devotions.

Yes, Jesus was a worshipper, and does any one inquire whom, and in what strain he worshipped? Listen to him in the act of prayer.-These words spake Jesus, says the beloved Disciple, and lift up his eyes to heaven and said, Father the hour is come, glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee. As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give cternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.-Such was his own ad dress to his Father in the last hours of life; and his designating the Father, as the only true God, and

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himself as God's Messenger, will appear the more striking, if we advert to his conversation with his disciples just before, in which predicting his exaltation and glory, as the consequence of his sufferings, he thus instructs his sorrowing brethren, for their comfort as well as admonition.--And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, Verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it yout. Is it in the power of language to mark more pointedly that one only being, or person the Father is to be adored? or can it consist with language like this, that there are, according to the popular persua sion, three divine persons, equal in power and digni ty, of whom Christ himself is one? Wise and amiable instructor! let his simple affectionate words for ever, silence the babblings of fanaticism, and the denuncia-, tion of our opponents; he has pronounced, and we will not hesitate to adopt the sentiment, that.wher ever there is an acknowledgement of the One God, and a perception of the beauty of Charity, there, under every form, of Religion, is the germ of Christiani ty, there is the seed of heavenly happiness.

9th. Jesus ascribed all his power and miracles to. his Creator, to his God and Father.-Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of Man, then. shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of

Matt. xix. 16, John viii. 40.Matt. vi. 9-13. John xvii. 1, 2. 3.

† Mark xii. 28, 29. 32. 34. xx. 17.—iv. 22, 23.

xvi. 23.

myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak thesê things. Then answered Jesus and said unto them, The Son can do nothing of himself.—I can of mine ownself do nothing; as I hear I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.-) But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in hcaven, neither the Son, but the Father.—Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him, whom he hath sent.--I must work the works of Him that sent me.- If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.-My Father is greater than I.—And at the raising of his friend Lazarus we find, ---Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, Father I thank thee that thou hast heard me.-mè always; but because of the people which stand by, I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.†

--And I knew that thou hearest

10. Jesus was regarded and treated as a human being, by those who associated and conversed with him.--But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of Man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him. --And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished and said, Whence hath this Man this wisdom, and these mighty works.--And the multitude said, This is Jesus, the Prophet of Nazereth of Galilee.--And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no Man

John viii. 28.-v. 19-30. Mark xiii. S2. John vi. 29. ix. 4.-X. 37—xiv. 28.-xi. 41. 42.

deceive you, for many shall come in my name; saying 1 am Christ, and shall deceive many.--Now when the Centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous Man.--And they said unto him, concerning Jesus of Nazareth which was a Prophet, mighty in word and deed before God and this peopic.--John the Baptist says--This is he of whom I said, after me cometh a Man which is preferred before me.--The same (Nicodemus) came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Master we know that thou art a teacher come from God; for no Man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.--The woman of Samaria, after a long conversation with Jesus, goes into the City to her friends, and says;-Come see a Man which told me all things that ever I did; is not this the Christ ?---And they said is not this Jesus, the Son of Joseph, whose Father and Mother we know? --The person who had been cured of his blindness, says to the Jews;-If this Man were not of God he could do nothing.-Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the Man.—And the Jewish Officers when sent to apprehend him, returned and said;— Never Man spake like this Man†.

Lastly. Jesus is repeatedly and emphatically called a Man, even after his resurrection and ascension; and that without any qualification or reserve,

Matt. viii. 27.-xii. 54.-xxi. 11.—xxiv. 4. Luke xxiii. 47.-zsiv. 19. John i. 30.-iii. 2— iv. 29.—vi. 42,-ix. 38.

xix. 5.-vii. 46.

even where the case seemed to require it, and where the writer would not have failed to introduce some qualifying expression, had he conceived of Christ, as a being different from, and superior in nature to the rest of mankind.-Ye men of Israel, hear these words, Jesus of Nazareth, a Man approved of God, among you, by miracles and wonders and signs which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know.— He hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by that Man whom he hath ordained.Concerning his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David, according to the flesh.-But to us there is but one God the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by nhom are all things, and we by him.—The head of Christ is God.-For since by Man came death, by Man came also the resurrection of the dead.-For there is one God, and one Mediator, between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus.-Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David, was raised from the dead according to my Gospel.—Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity, therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.—And being made perfect through suffering, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him.*

Thus have I stated some of the numerous passages of Scripture, which support the Doctrine maintained by Unitarians respecting the Humanity of Jesus Christ.

*Acts ii. 22,-xvii. 31. Rom. i. S. 1 Cor. viii. 6. xi. S. xv. 21. 1 Tim. ii. 5. 2 Tim. ii. 8. Heb. i. 9.-v. 9.

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