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Socinian * weary themselves in proving , what we never thought p £ denying , the humanity of Christ : let them prove that he is a mere man , and the dispute will be at an end . The very same scriptures that speak of cc the man Jesus Christ /*
speak likewise of " theWord being with God and being God , " of u all things being made by him / ' and of u his being nevertheless made flesh / ' And , that by this Word i » meant Christy J . M . himself does not deny : for he allows that the apocalyptic title " King of kings and Lord of lords /' is given to the Word ( Rev . xix * 13 . ) ; therefore by the concession of J * M . the Word is Christ . When the scripture teaches me that Christ is man , and likewise that Christ is
God , it may use what X M . indecently calls i 6 senseless jargOn : " but he must not be offended at plain Christians , if they choose rather to believe the declarations of the Bible , than to yield to Socinian decisions , positive as they may be , and , whatever is the cogency of J . M / s arguments , he
is certainly master of a style most energetically positive and dogmatical . I know as well as J . M . can tell me , that the word Olam does not necessarily convey the idea of eterrtity , any more than the English expression for ever : buti , when Micah heaps words upon words by way ( as it were ) of strengthening his language and rendering it unambiguous , I cannot but think the explanation proposed by J . M . perfectly unnatural and far-fetched . Had Micah meant to
say no more than what J . M . puts into his mouthy he would surely have said , " whose goings forth have been Meolam , from ancient time * ' ( as in Joshua xxiv . 2 . ) not cc whose goings forth have been from everlasting , even from the days of eternity /'
The next text is that in Psalm xlv . as cited by St . Paul in the beginning of the epistle to the Hebrews . Upon this J . M . remarks , that I ought to have known that the proper rendering of the passage is cc God is thy throne / ' not u thy throne O God / ' Whatever I ought to have known , I
lament to say that I know no such thing . The metaphor 4 c XJod is thy throne / ' is so harsh , that it seems to me to be scarcely good sense . I can easily conceive how God may be styled a * sun" and a u shield * ' to his people , because he grants them illumination and protection ; but how he can be styled a throne , strikes rae as perfectly incomprehensible . God is
sometimes said to establish a person ' throne ^ as in 2 Sana , vii . 13 . Psaim lxxxix . 4 . j but he is no where in the \ vhol 6 Bible ever said to be a throne himself , except he be in this passage , the Socinian interpretation of which , I think , wiU *
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40 t The Clergyman ' s Answer to J . Ml
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1807, page 408, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2383/page/12/
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