The Unitarian miscellany and Christian monitor Volume 5 - Softcover

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. 1824 Excerpt: ...and physical organization; that is, all those qualities, which constitute him what in his present state he is. Now it cannot be said, that any of these qualities are incompatible with others. There is nothing in any of them, which makes it a contradiction or absurdity to suppose, that they may all exist together in the same subject. You may, indeed, affirm of a part, what is not true of the whole of man. You may say of his body, that it has extension and solidity, and attribute to his mind perception, memory, judgment; but here is no contradiction. You do not attribute to him, as an individual or whole, opposite qualities. You do not ascribe to his person qualities or acts so utterly repugnant, that one necessarily excludes the other, as light excludes darkness, or omnipotence, weakness. Our objection to the union of two natures in the person of Jesus Christ, is, that it brings together an assemblage of qualities, which are incompatible with each other; that it ascribes to Christ, as an individual or person, properties, between which there is such an utter repugnance, such direct opposition, that they cannot exist together in the same subject. Our opponents affirm, that Christ is perfect God and perfect man; consequently he must have all the qualities of both, as omnipotence and weakness, infallibility and fallibility, infinite knowledge and limited and partial information; and these qualities are affirmed of him in a personal character. Man presents no phenomenon resembling this; no such monstrous combination of incongruous and opposite qualities. With regard to the apparently contradictory language, which is sometimes employed in speaking of man, and the fallacy of supposing, that it resembles, in the least, that which the doctrine of two natures authoriz...