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Hst doth aflfedl an anadipldsis ; if so , tbose copes ^ ust » efeds be best w ^ , as Erasmus observes , route thu g , viz . that ixfi * wo * made-inAim * vm life ; and so TertuHiaft reades universally : * but light & life are to be understood all ovfer y * Gatpel evangelically .
Besides : ye world y * was made or was making by hrni > v . 10 , if it bad not been long of themselves , was such a * we ? e capable of comprehending ye light , v . 5 , of receiving him , v * 12 , and knowing- him , v . 11 ; ergo * y * Evangelist is not telling over againe
y glory of Moses Ms first creation , though he allude to y w <* was a type <> f this . As to y * word flesh * v . 14 , was made flesh or was flesh , so Joach . Cam ^ rar * . i . e * a mortal man , subject to humane infirmities and suffering- in y flesh : that word is so
used by y same evangelist , 1 Joh : iv ; 2 , Every spirit who confesseth Jesus Christ who came in flesh ( so y words should be translated , meaning sufferings , w y « Gnostiques refused totindergoe ) : it is well kriowne y * epithets conteine some reason appertaineing to y subject unto w » they are * joyned ,
and y * scope of y place ; but see Gal . iv . 13 , 14 , and many other places , especially 1 Tim . iii .- lilt , great is the mysterie of Godlinesse which was manifested in or by flesh , ( see y Syriack and vulgar Latin , Grotius , &c . ) viz . by X * and his apostles , in much
mnrmitle of y flesh , as appeares by y opposition , viz . justified ' in spirit * viz . by infinite miracles ; w mysterie of Godlittesse , though it wets gloriously received , yet y spirit spake expressely-f y * it should be supplanted by a myBterie of iniquitie , ana be as
• See y Oxford Gr . Test am . -f Sir , may I be so ffree with you as without cenisare-of fFanatfdsm toterll y 6 u yt mostly since I saw you , with God ' a . helpe , 1 have found out and given ( as I ana persuaded ) very good pYooffe of very many types of this gratad apostacy . I
say in general thai all the history of y « Old Teats is allegorical of y « great Providences of God concerning the church , symbolically as to things past , and so on typically to things future . Thus I say t
ySatason wifh hffc tfiriee women were tvpes of the apOfeftWitol , th 6 Irtipertal toid tlie apbs ^ tfcall mat ^ s of ye ehti rch of ye Ne \ v 'I ^ cfs ^; Gideon wag a type of th e apo&tlts ; Ant Abimeleeh of ye bi ^ h ^ pof Romfe > f 5 o tv 4 ^ Samcon ^ coniparffomi
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basely deserted . And I thiftke we are now ppon a pri « ae instance bf « &&& » tacy , out of wch ft must needs be hard to emerge tiiiy translations be at » end ^ ed . I gay these words , Joh . Viii . 58 r should be thus rendmi , before he - be
Abraham I am He * , i . e . y ^ Mesfeias y t should come ioto y *> w ^ Mrld >^* 6 foi e y prophecie conteined in Abraham ^ name eoncerniiiff ye calling of f * Gentiles should be fulfilled ; see y use of eye * sta * in Joh . viii . 24 , 28 , & xiii .
19 . How doe people runne away with it y y second person tooke our nature upon him , from Heb . S . 16 , He tooke not on himy * nature of Angels which should be rendered , as in the
margin , he taketh not hold of if * Angels Y like may be said of raaity other places as to translations or copies ,, w make it hard to gett out of this
part of t ^ e Babylonick captivity & may render y carnal part of y Protestants , who wilfully shutt therr eyes against all further reformation , as the number of y Beast , acting oiaer y * second part to ye same tune .
S 9 I have not written those things ( wefc may he had better from Sooinus contra Vujekumj Schlietingiiis , Crel-Htis , &c . ) to you to challenge you now in your old age , after so long prepossession ; I hope the Lord will forgive you , -considering bow you toitte by
your opinion & what good service you have otherwise done y church by ; your unwearied labours m in any particulars , & I doubt not but fron * sincere & -candid principles . I suppose
you doe not intend to challendge my liOrds y Bishops , but only to apologise & mollifie them a little , as I would doe you , if it may not cast too gteat an odium upon you to bey it may be , but a charitable man to Socinians , of w
number yet I might perhaps fairly " denie myself to be , I holding' three pdi-sons in the Triiritjjr , \ v < Socinud Judges xv . 2 . The two goldeiv calves , of yc patriarchs of Rome and Conn tap tinoplo . But to speake much , I cannot uow ; ^ nd to say a little is to spovle all .
\ Vheu this ulystiqall sense s ^ all be throughly uudei-stood , faMewe ^ l Pope . I do believe y t this ^ ease of ye pid Test , will Iter-ye greatest demonstratiob in ye world against all atheists * iaAdels and papists ^»<«^ vey , let toot tHe ^ l things be atiyprej ^ tiftae against \ vhae f bave said i « th } fipttp ^ . \ ¦ - - '¦ . - '••• - - ¦' '
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Treatmttit of fh * tfn&arifUt * : w ^ h som e Aeeaunt Gtib ^ rt € lerhe . B
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1823, page 69, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1781/page/5/
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