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» s $£ rtrng . What ho may choose to assert is of rio consequence ; what they assert is of infinite importance . Were I " inclined to it , I could play upon the clergyman ' s word assert in this connexion , as
He has done upon my using the word demonstrated * and retort , u framers of systems are very apt to fancy that to be asserted by the New Testament writers which they wish to establish , " That the New Testament writers have not
asserted any thing like what the clergyman says they assert is fully proved by his own explanation . u This assertion / ' he adds , " J .
M . denies on the ground , that the words pre-existcnt Creator ^ and universe do not occur in the text . " I deny that Jesus Christ is any where styled the Creator of the universe ; or that the term Creator is ever . applied to him ; and I appeal to any one whether
Paul ' s enumeration in that text can be applied to the universe . His words are , not he created all things ; but , ** By him were all things created—whether thrones or d&nrinions , or principalities or pbwers / ' Are these expressions syfibnynious with the term universe ? I shall refer the reader to the
observations of Mr . Belsham on the beginning of John ' s gospel , in his most excellent letter to Mr . Carpenter , contained in the same tiumber of the Repository with the letter of the clergyman . In the letter which he Has promised , ¦ We shall no doubt have as lucid
an ^ xpbsitirtn the passage in % he Colossians , which I will aot Anticipate * . L , et us , however , itrppdse ( as the clergyman does ) that'J ' oKn , eh % i . 3 . is-describing the Word , as the Maker of all
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things ; ' and put the passage into language suited to that idea , and then see whether that can be its meaning . ** He ( the word ) was the maker of all things ^ and with-.
out him ( the maker of it } was not one thing made , that was made . " Admirable sense ! worthy of the learning of the clergyman , and of the system he is endeavouring to
support . 44 Perhaps J . M . ( says the clergyman ) may be assisted in his inquiries by comparing together the beginning of Genesis and . the beginning of St . John ' s gospel . Moses teaches us that the world
was created by Jehovah . St . John assures us that all things were made by the Word , that he was in the world , and the "world was made by him /'
What a i 6 daring misquotation ! " Moses Bays , Elohim created ; but the clergyman can easily transmute Elohim or Adony or , perhaps ^ any other word into Jehovah ^ and then assert that those words are the words of the
sacred writers when they manifestly are not . But in this transmutation there is no small degree " of sophistry . ' * He is compare ing the beginning of Genesis with the beginning of John , and would evidently insinuate by changing Moses ' s word Elohim intoJehoZ
vah that , not the true Jehovah of the Old Testament but , hisfictitu ous Jehovah ^ the Messenger * which he says is Christ , was the C reator of all things . For this purpose
also , finding in John i . JCU * The world was made by hjro , " to make th , e comparison moire cdi »* ptete , he changes the words of Moses , " T / tc hectve&s and the earthy into " the world" I will
? See M # Repos . vol . u . p . 591 . -wEd ,
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l ^ O J . M . ' s JRepTy to iht € lcPgytnttn vii ilie Divinity of Christ .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1808, page 140, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2390/page/20/
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