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    unnatural , and the like ^ in this connexion , they could mean tiothing more than usual or unusual , such ideas as they had op had not been accustomed to annex to the terms in question , and that to persons who had been early habituated to understand this , and other similar passages of scripture ^ in the rational and consistent sense of the Polish reformers , the

    interpretation imposed upon the apostle ' s language by learned j ^ iriansj would appear as forced ^ as unnatural ^ and ' as violent , as the Unitarian interpretation appears to them , Iameveri perfectly convinced that nothingbut astrongand riveted _ , though . sio 4 pubt involuntary and unperceived ^ attachment to a

    favou-Tite hypothesis ^ would have induced men of distinguished ability ., learning and integrity , to have embraced an interpretation so remote from the apostle * s meaning , and so little countenanced by his expressions . Had the apostle intended to assert that Jesus Christ was the Creator of the natural world , and all

    things in it , he would surel y ^ have used the plain ^ intelligible language , which the sacred writers invariably adopt upon this subject ; he would have announced him as the maker of the heavens ,, the earth , the sea , and all things which ar ^ therein . Wh ? reas , on the contrary , instead of saying that heaven and ^ artji were made by him , he only says that all things in the

    heavens and in the earth , were created by him ; and descending to particulars ^ instead of ipecifying celestial luminaries , and terrestrial substances , he only specifies states of things , and mere civil distinctions , such as thrones , and dominions , and principalities , and powers . Wliat then can be more evident than that the creation of which the apostle speaks is not the formation of natural substances , but the renovation of the rational and moral

    world . Of one or other of these subjects it is universally allowed that the apostle is discoursing : but it is certain that he is not speaking of the former , he must therefore intend the latter * It is curious to observe how Dr . Doddridge in his paraphrase helps out the apostle ' s text . cc His nature / ' says this learned ((

    Expositor , has a transcendent excellency superior to any thing that is made . From him were derived the visible splendour of the celestial luminaries , the sun , the moon , and ( he stars 9 % ven all the hosts of these lower heavens , and from him th $

    yet brighter glories of invisible and angelic beings , '' &e . So saith Dr . Doddridge , but so said not the apostle Paul , nor any thing like it . It was very natural for the ingenious and pious paraphrast to enumerate sensible objects when specifying in detail the works of Christy for he believed Christ to be the crea ? tor of the inateriaJ universe and its inhabitants- It would hare

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    302 Mr * Bekhqyn ' s Strictures on Carpenter ' s Lectures f

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1807, page 592, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2386/page/28/