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      sible beings , sucH" as tlie devil is generally supposed to be , but to human beings , especially those of

      them vvho have stood at the head , and have been the promoters , of the various persecutions which , in every age , have afflicted the church and people of God . For them and their angels , their

      emissaries and agents , is the everlast ing fire , the fire of gehenna , pre

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      pared ; and with them snail the wicked of every description have their portion ; for iC the king shall say to them on his lefthand , Depart from me , ' ye cursed , into

      everlasting fire , prepared tor the devil and his angels ; and these shall go away into everlasting punishment , but the righteous into life eternal . " JOHN MARSOM ,

      On Gen. I. 26. 247

      On Gen . i . 26 . 247

      On Gen. I. 26*

      ON GEN . I . 26 *

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      To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .

      SIR In order to satisfy the inquiries of your correspondent ^ p . 29- re * , lative to the meaning of the text in Gen . i . 26 . I will point out the

      construction put on the above passage , both by the Arians and Socinians , and leave him , and others of your readers , to adopt that hypothesis , which , upon mature consideration , shall appear to them

      most agreeable to reason and revelation * Gen . i . 26 , u Let us make man in our image , after our likeness /'

      It must be allowed , that this text speaks of a plurality ( though not a Trinity ) of proper persons or beings , and that they are the

      persons to whom the works of creation are ascribed , and by whom all things were made ; and these , it is presumed , are two and no more , \ iz . God the Father and

      his Son Jesus Christ ; but not two co-equal persons * nor are the works of creation ascribed to them exactly in the same manner . It cannot be proved or rationally It cannot be provedor rationally

      , imagined , that here is one person speaking to two others , as is commonly supposed ; nor do we any where find in Scripture , that God is represented as speaking to his spirit , but we often find that he

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      speaks to his Son ; therefore it is most reasonable , and agreeable to Scripture usage , to understand it of one single person , speaking to another single person , i . e , of the Father speaking to Christ his Son ; to him , Jehovah God the Father said . Psalm ii . 7 . " Thou

      art my Son , " & c . and again unto the Soa he saith , " Thy throne , O God , is for ever and ever , " Heb »

      i . 8 * to which may be added many other passages of alike import , from all which it is coneluded , that the words first alluded to are the words of God

      the Father to his son Jesus Christ , by and for whom he made the worlds . Again , they do not seem to be two equal persons , but one appears to be greater than the other : one is a Son , and ,

      therefore , a derived being ; the other is the Father , and an underived being . The Father , then , in his own person and essence , is selfexistent , and of no other , but the Son is of the Father , wherefore

      he saith , My father is greater than I , John xiv . 28 * It is presumed , that the Son was with the Father prior to the creation of the world , and that all things were created of the Father , and by the Son ; and it is humbly conceived ,

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1810, page 247, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02051810/page/31/