Vindiciae Preistleianae; An Address to the Students of Oxford and Cambridge Occasioned by a Letter to Dr. Priestley from a Person Calling Himself an Undergraduate, But Publicly and Uncontradictedly Ascribed to Dr. Horne, Dean of Canterbury, (Paperback)

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. 1788 Excerpt: ... OF CHRIST. The eternal God a feeble suffering man How the minds of many are capable of being reconciled to such a Jlrange assertion. Throughout the bebrew scriptures, Chrifl uniformly spoken of as a man, and a great prophet, who was to be born of a particular tribe and family among them. The Jews expelled him, and those who received him, believed in him, in that character only. The three former evangelists, and Luke in his second treatise, never seem to have had a thought of Chrifl being any other than a man like M 3 themselves, themselves, with extraordinary powers from God. The evangelist St. John and the reji of the writers of the New Testament do not differ from the preceding. A stngular testimony to the spreading of this tme doBrine concerning Christ. The testimony to it of the late Dr. Le Courayer. In one place Dr. Home introduces you thus addressing Dr. Priestley, making himself one of your number, as usual. With? the scriptures open before us, we can 'no more believe that our Lord Jesus was only a man, like ourselves; we can 'no more adopt your interpretation of those 'texts, which asiert or imply him to be 'God, than we can believe the Alcoran, or adopt the stories which it contains." Undergraduate's letter, p. 25. Dr. Home may make this declaration for himself, though 1 flatter myself you will be persuaded, that it does not bespeak him to have much considered the subject. If I be not mistaken, you would have answered for yourselves with more modesty and less prejudice i judice; and perhaps in some such manner as this; We will consider, Dr. Priestley, what 'you offer, from scripture, to prove our 'Lord Jesus Christ, not to be the eternal 'God, but a man like ourselves. For we 'frankly own to you, that we have never 'examined this matter, as ...