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ptrsorii and thatj according to StvPaul , m him divelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily . Col . ii . 9 \ But can all the fulness of the Godhead be where all the Godhead is not ? And can all the Godhead , with all its fulness , bodily dwell in a being who is not God ? If all the fulness of the Godhead dwell bodily
in Jesus Christ , then the Godhead is there , fee . '/ In reply to this curious train of reasoning , it may be urged , that whatever fulness dwells in ^ Christ it is no more than what it pleased the Father should dwell in him , CoK i . 19 , and therefore that Christ is . not truly God . But to this argument my opponent may perhaps object , that it pleased himself , considered as the Father , that the fulness should dwell iti himself , considered as the Son . He will not , however ^ find it easy to return an answer so completely satisfactory to the objection which arises from the prayer
oJi Paul for the Ephesians , c . iii . 19 . that they maybe " filled with the fulness of God / 9 For will this worthy gentleman have the courage to maintain that every individual Christian at Ephesus , with respect to whojn this prayer was answered , and vyho was consequently filled with all the fulness of God , was Lord Jehovah , God and man in one divine person , and that all divine power , v ^ isdom , love , omniscience ^ omnipresence , &c . dwelt
in him ? Such is the absurdity to which we are reduced , by taking figurative and hyperbolical expressions in a literal sense ^ and drawing consequences from then * of which the writers never thought , 2 . This writer argues against the Unitarian doctrine , p . 3 , from the account of the jniraculous conception of Christ , contained in the prefaces of Matthew and Luke . But in my
estimation , and in that of many others , these accounts are no more entitled to credit , than the fables of the Koran , or the reveries of Swedenborg . And for this reason , amongst others , that if we give any credit to Luke ' s genuine history , Christ was not born till two years after Herod was dead . For the
Evangelist relates , Luke iii . 1 . 23 , that Jesus was entering upon his thirtieth year in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius * But if we know any thing contending the death of Herod , that tyrant expired at least seventeen years before the demise of Augustus , two ' years before Jesus was born . Lardaer ' s Works , V . I . p , 423 , But admitting the fact of the miraculous
conception of Jesus Christ , how could this prove his preexistence , jpore than the miraculous conception of Isaac , or of Jphn . the Baptist , proves that they also came into the world from apre-existent st ^ rtei 3 . My worthy opponent makes the following frank an ! iremarkable concession , p . 5 , ^ If Christ be ; a m ? tn jnall re 3 p «; ct $ similar to other men , and nothing more , theu in this case it
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1806, page 587, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1730/page/27/
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