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My friend ' s remark upon this passage , is / ( p . 169 , ) "if wfe render it ages , and if b y ages we understand dispensation ^ even that is too extern / ve for the single dispensation of the gospel / ' But the true interpretation of this text is probably that which was proposed by Grotius , and adopted by Dr . Lardner , Mr . Lindsey and others , viz . with a view to whom
he constituted the ages , or dispensations , meaning that all former dispensations were intended to be introductory to the great and final dispensation of the Messiah , It is true that the preposi * tion Si < % , when used with a genitive case commonly expresses the instrumental cause , but it sometimes , though rarely- ex *
presses the final cause : of which some instances are to be found * n Stockius and Schleusner . iv . Col . i . 15 , 16 : " Who is the image of the invisible God , the first born of every creature , for by him were all things created that are in heaven , and that are in earth , visible and invi * sible , whether they be thrones or dominions , or principalities , or powers , all things were created by him , and for him , arid he is before all things , and by him all things consist /'
My worthy friend leaves this text to speak for itself , without a comment . And our Arian brethren in general , regard it as -k most palpable and unanswerable argument in favour of their hypothesis . It is indeed amusing to read the triumphant language which they hold upon this subject . * Nothing , " says t ) r . Clarke , can be more forced or unnatural than the Socinian interpretation of this passage , who understand it figuratively of the new creation by the gospel / ' < The interpretation , ' * fays Mr . Pierce , which refers what is here said of our
Saviour to the new creation , is so forced and violent , that it cart hardly be thought that men would ever have espoused it , but for the sake of a hypothesis . " € C To interpret this , ** says Dr * Doddridge , cc as the Socinians do , of a new creation , is so unnatural , that one would hardly believe if the evidence wer 6 not so undeniably strong , that any set of learned commentators could fall ill to it /* Last , but not least , comes the learned Dr . Harwood . ** Words , " says he , " I think have no mean *
ing , and are not the true signs of ideas , if these plain and clear passages do not contain and manifest this position , that Jesus Christ was the person , who by the direction of the Deity > originally formed all things /' Such are the opinions expressed by these eminent critics and theologians- But with all due deference to their learning and talents 9 1 must beg leave to insist , that b y the epithet * oaturat
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Mr . Belsham ' s Strictures en Varpenter * $ Lectures . 5 & 1
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1807, page 591, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2386/page/27/
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