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his ellipsis ., he adduces I Jolmiii . 5 ; and says , > that the only an * teeedent ib he was ii ^ imJ ^ esid ^^ Vi ^ Fcvtlier Sxi : verse 1 : but th ^ F&ther 5 evefi acfidrdihg't ^ t he trinitarian scheme was not
manifested ; therefore M iimst ^ be referred to Christ , though he is not mentioned in , the context . I deny th&t the antecedent t 6 he was manifested is the [ Pather . This ; passage is exactly parallel to that in the Acts - Iii both , God is the antecedent : both consequently prove Christ to be God . " Behold , what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us > that we should be
called the sons of God . Therefore the world knoweth us not , because it knew not him ( viz . God ) . Beloved ^ now are : We the sons of God , and it doth not yet appear What we shall be ^ but we know , that , when he ( GexJ ) shall appear , we shall be like him ( Gdd ) . And ' yekitbw that he ( God ) was iri&iiffested to take away our sins / '" I JQhn iik 1 , 2 . 5 . As St . Pan ] tells us
in the last considered text that Qod was manifested in the flesh > so St . John here tells us that he ( God ) was manifested ^ to take away our sins z and this he did , giQcof ding to the author of the Acts , by purchasing the chtirch \! itfr * iiis bwn blood . / - ¦ From GoL i , 15 —17 , I ted asserted that Christ wag the preexistent Creator of the univer ^ e . 5 This asseMoiiJ . M denies , on the groundy that the wor&spre-existent Creator ^ ^ rvXtimversey do not dccuf iii the te&tt . I Confess ] I Iiad ^ alwa )^ supposed that all things were equivalent to immerse ; aii (^ il 4 ft t 6 6 e before all things was much the same a ^ ibbe pre-eits ^^ t tooM timigsi Hence , when I read that all thirigk were createtfl ? y Christy and that fae is before aW things , I thotight myself w&rahted in styling him the pre + exis tent Creator of the ti ^ 0 erie . I ain perfects } y reg ^ y , however , M exchange iny ^ apostle . If Chtisirtlieh be a mere , man , le " t J : ^ i ^ ac ^' usVfe 6 \ y
^ all things were created by him and iot biiriy and " how He ? is before ajl things . ' Perhaps J . M . may be assisteicl in his inquiries by co-mparing together ftie begipnjiig of (^ eiiesi ^ and the beginning of St . John ^ s gospel .- Mdses teaches us , * that the w *> rld was cheated by Jehovah : St . John ^ urea : "u ^ ,: that all things were made by the Word ^ that he was in the world and
the world Was irfade by him ^ that he was macle flesh arid xl ^ elt among us , and that he was jyi the beginnmg with God aiid was God . As J . M . has not * Noticed to ingeniotis Sociiiiaa glo 3 $ upon . Col . 1 . 15—4 7 ., t ehcerfuHy ac ^ Tuce it . * lfy tlt ^ crwtiwt there spoken of , ° ^ ays ; the gfoss ^ ( arid " . by parallelism of reasoning , I stf { ipdrse , by . ( Me creation sjiolcfen of in the ; l ^ egi ^ ipg of St . John ' s gospel ) , «* tve miist b y no meaits uhcfcr ^^/ V natural creation tffrhe un ^ ^ 7 ^ % i ^ m ^
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524 The Clergymcn ^ s Answer J . . ML
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1807, page 524, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2385/page/16/
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