A DISCOURSE ON THE Divinity of Christ. BY THE REV. JOHN METHUEN ROGERS, LL.B. RECTOR OF BERKLEY, SOMERSET. PRINTED BY RICHARD CRUTTWELL, ST. JAMES's-STREET, BATH; AND SOLD BY LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN, In the following Discourse it is attempted to prove the Divinity of CHRIST by such an argument as is level to the most ordinary capacities, and as easy to be understood by the simple and ignorant, as by the wisest and most learned: an argument, which, if they cannot answer and confute it, ought to carry conviction of their blasphemy to Unitarians; and of the necessity of their conversion to the Jews: to both of whom a similar sort of "blindness" seems to "have happened." And how far it may be wilful, or in opposition to the light both of reason and revelation, it highly concerns them both to consider. Notes are added, with quotations from several authors, illustrative of the subject; and also an Appendix, containing an abridgment of the famous Address or Epistle of the Unitarians to the Ambassador from Morocco in the reign of Charles II. A DISCOURSE, &c. MICAH vi. 2. For the Lord hath a controversy with his people. HE whole History of the Jews, almost from TH their earliest existence, to their final extinction as a nation, is an account of what the Prophet here calls "a controversy" between God and them. The signal mercies and favours with which He so highly distinguished them, above the rest of mankind, met with the most unworthy returns, with ingratitude, murmurs, and rebellion. Stiled as they were His "treasure," His " peculiar people," they were no less remarkable as to their character for being "a perverse and stiff-necked generation;" both insensible to the benefits they received, and incorrigible under the punishments inflicted on them: till, at last, their multiplied provocations were completed, and "the measure |
