Thoughts on nature and religion. Or, an apology for the right of private judgment / maintained by Michael Servetus [i.e. P. Blair] M.D. in his answer to John Calvin. [Anon].

  • Blair, Patrick, M.D., of Cork, active 1738-1780.
Date:
1774
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Credit: Thoughts on nature and religion. Or, an apology for the right of private judgment / maintained by Michael Servetus [i.e. P. Blair] M.D. in his answer to John Calvin. [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 138 ] he fhould inherit eternal life and happinefs with him; and I can alfo conceive, that the wicked or perverfe did not pay obedience to thofe laws. And in the 14th verfe, when he fays, the word was made flejh and dwelt among us. I explain it thus,—that God had raifed up the man Jefus, tc whom he had commu¬ nicated thofe laws, in an explicit manner, to which he required obedience ; who had accordingly, thro’ grace and truth, declared to mankind, whatever he had received of the Father, in obedience to his will: as, where he fays, 44 If ye keep my commandments i4 ye fhall abide in my love ; even as I have kept my 44 Father’s commandments and abide in his love: for u all things which I have heard of my father, have I 44 made known to you.” The merit of Jefus, as he here declares himfelf, confifted, in that he had kept his Father’s commandments ; he therefore abode in his love ; and defires them to follow his example, if they would abide in his love. I fhall next enquire whether the life, the adtions and doctrine of jefus Chrift, as recorded to us in the New Teftament, be agreeable to this creed.—The Frit circumftance fpoken of in his hiftory, given by the Evangelifts,is his immaculate conception; that he was not the fon of man, but conceived by the Holy Ghoft, in the womb of a virgin. Whether this was, or was not fo, no way concerns my falvation : it is a piece of hiftory I am at liberty to believe or not ; but that it was fo, in order to fulfill that prophecy of Ifaiah, 44 A virgin fhould bring forth a fon, and he 44 fhould be called Immanuel,” feems not to be well confidered by the Evangelift; for the prophecy this alludes to, concerns one Maher-Shalal-hafh-baz, who in the reign of Ahaz king of Juda, was born of the pro- phetefs, and was given as a fign to Ahaz, to convince him (who was then threatened with an invafion from the united forces of Re fin, king of Damascus, and Pekin
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