"Man cannot be exalted so as to sit at the right hand of God;-Christ is so exalted. Therefore Christ is not man.

"Man cannot be an advocate or intercessor with God for man. Christ is an advocate or intercessor with the Father for sinners. Therefore Christ is not

a man.

"Upon this parallel reasoning we may quote the remark, with the alteration of one word only, that, "It is therefore for "Unitarians," to shew that the major propositions are not true, or give up the controversy." RATIOCINATIUS.

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From the Christian Philanthropist. Dear Sir,-Agreeably to your request, I send the following answer to "Ratiocinatius." His remarks áre mere quibbles, and not a direct attempt to prove them false. Does he mean to prove that Jesus Christ was a mere man ? If not, his remarks are nothing but an evasion. We say that Jesus Christ was not a mere man that he existed in "the bosom of the Father "before the foundation of the world." (1 John i. 18.) Let us come to the point. Who and what is Jesus Christ? The scriptures declare him to be "the only begotten Son of God." These words are emphatical, and strongly imply that he is "the only begotten Son of God," in a sense different from all other beings, from the highest angel to the lowest insect. Palpable contradictions cannot be true on both sides. The great Jehovah can in no sense be said to be "begotten." It implies no contradiction to say, that before the creation he begat or produced from himself a divine being, the "express image of his person" we can as easily conceive of this, as that he should speak the universe into existence. Jesus Christ is a divine being, derived from and dependent upon the great Jehovah, his Father. Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, "All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth;" none but the Almighty God could give this

power to Jesus Christ. It was given to him; therefore, he derives his power from God. "For I came down from Heaven not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me." (John vi. 58.)

It implies no contradiction to say, that the great Father of every living spirit, foreseeing the lapse of Adam, should appoint his "only begotten Son" to become the mediator between God and the fallen race of Adam, the mediator, and the executor of the Covenant of Grace. To accomplish the important end of redeeming and saving sinners, he assumed the "body prepared for him" in the womb of the virgin Marywas born, lived, taught the doctrines and precepts, and performed the wonderful works and miracles in the gospel; having revealed the will of God, he shed his "gracious blood" on the cross for the remission of sins, and became the "propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but for the sins of the whole world." It implies no contradiction to say, that Jesus Christ arose glorious from the grave, and ascended triumphantly into Heaven. Jesus said unto Mary, "go unto my brethren and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father, to my God and your God." "Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins." (Acts v. 31.) "This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we are all witnesses, therefore being by the right hand of God exalted and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this which ye now see. (Acts ii. 33 and 34.) See also Ephesians i. 17 to the end. "If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." "Wherefore he is able to save them to the uttermost that came unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them." Does not Jesus Christ in the above passages distinguish himself as a person derived from, and dependent on his Father? Is it not his uniform Janguage in all his discourses?

We ask Ratiocinatius, was it a mere man who ex

isted in the "bosom of the Father" before the foundation of the world? Certainly the great Jehovah did not exist in his own bosom. Was it a mere man that God appointed to be the mediator between God and the fallen race of Adam? Was it a mere man that shed his blood on the cross for the remission of sins, and became the "propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but for the sins of the world ?" Is it a mere man that is by the right hand of God, is exalted to be a Prince and a Savior for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins? We say no-It was "the only begotten Son of God." Trinitarians must therefore confess that they are Patripassents or Socinians in disguise.

I paid little attention to the syllogisms-I now observe that if the major propositions in the syllogisms of X. Z. were erroneous in any sense, it lay with Ratiocinatius to point out the errors. I presume he felt himself unable, for they are self-evident. I now remark on his syllogisms: "No man can be a mediator between himself and God;" the true "Christ is the one mediator between God and man." We say that Christ was not a mere man, but the only begotten Son of God, in a sense different from all other beings. It is, therefore, only a quibble upon the meaning of the word man, and is nothing to the purpose. "No man can make an atonement for himself, nor become the propitiation for the sins of men." This is true: "By Christ we have received the atonement, and he is the propitiation for our sins." This is true; but the conclusion does not follow, because Christ was not a mere man. This is therefore a mere evasion. "Man cannot be exalted, so as to sit at the right hand of God." -This is not true; the righteous will be exalted and placed at the right hand of Christ. "Christ is so exalted." Therefore, the righteous will be so exalted as to sit at the right hand of God. "Man cannot be an advocate or intercessor with God for man." If this is true, why do the orthodox pray so earnestly for the conversion of Unitarians, and for success to Mission

aries? Is not praying interceding with God to bestow his blessings on those for whom we pray?

UNITARIUS,

ANECDOTES.

TWO PERSONS IN ONE.

A countryman meeting the prince, bishop of Strasburg, at the head of an army, asked him how a successor to the peaceable apostles could so far violate his sacred office às to lead men to war? "I do not lead them as an Archbishop, but as a Prince of trasburg," was the reply. "I should like to know," said the countryman, "if the Prince of Strasburg should chance to go to the devil, what would become of the Archbishop ?” Literary Casket.

CATHOLIC ADVICE.

At a time when some of the Pope's dominions were invaded by some of the neighboring states, an army was collected to meet the foe; and previous to the engagement beginning, a cardinal, commissioned by his Holiness, went among the soldiers, and exhorted them to fight valiantly-for, should they lose their lives, the pope promised them a plenary remission of: all their sins, and that "they should dine with angels in Paradise." Having thus spoken, he retired; when one of the soldiers called after him-"Lord Cardinal, will you not stay and dine with us in Paradise ?" «No, no," said he, "My dinner-hour is not yet come.”

ibid.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

It appears by the Minutes of the annual Confer. ences of the Methodists, that the whole number of their travelling preachers is 1016, and that the whole

number of members in all their churches is 297,622. Their increase during the past year has been 16,470. Chr. Reg.

John Wesley, being awakened at midnight by the breaking of a blood vessel, and thinking himself at that moment on the brink of eternity, cried to God ; "Oh prepare me for thy coming, and come when thou wilt!"

ib.

A country parish in New Hampshire proposed to their pastor to raise his salary from $250 to $300 per annum. "Spare me," my Christian friends," replied the worthy man; it is a wearisome burden to collect the $250 I should be worn to death by trying to scramble together the $300." N.A. Review.

"The Bible," said Chillingworth, the champion of Protestantism,"the Bible, the Bible is the only religion of Protestants. I will take no man's liberty of judging from him, neither shall any one take mine from me. I will think no man the worse man, or the worse Christian, I will love no man the less, for differing in opinion from me. And what measure I mete to others, I expect from them again. I am fully assured that God does not, therefore, man ought not, to require any more from any man than this to believe the Scriptures to be God's word; to endeavor to find the true sense of it, and to live according to it.”

PHILANTHROPIST.

Lord Bacon's definition of a Trinitarian's creed. "He believes three to be one: a father not to be older than his son; a son to be equal with his father; and one proceeding from both; he believes three persons in one nature, and two natures in one person.

"He believes a virgin to be the mother of a son; and that very son of hers to be her Maker. He believes him to have been shut up in a narrow room, whom heaven and earth could not contain. He be