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So God created man in his own image , in the image of God , created he him . " If then to be in the form of God , will prove Christ to be God , to be in the likeness of God ^ as applied to mankind , will prove every man
to be God ; for so universally does James apply this being made in the likeness of God when he says of the tongue , Therewith curse we men , which are made in the similitude of God / ' So far therefore are these phrases from proving , what the clergyman cites them to prove , that they prove directly the reverse , " He * ' ( that is J . M . says the clergyman , ) li complains
grievously of my altering and misrepre - senting the common translation ; not citing its real expressions , and adducing as its assertions , what it nowhere contains / '' '
Whether this complaint be just or not , the reader will judge . The justness of it however , will be confirmed almost immediately , by a quotation from the clergyman , in which a sentence of only four words in the common translation , is misquoted , and misrepresented three or four times successively .
" Two remaining passages of the New Testament , he ( J . M ., says the clergyman , ) allows to be cited by me in its real language , and he moreover allows them to relate to Christ ; but fie denies that they contain any thing like an assertion , that Christ is God . " Is there then any thing like such an assertion in them ? Yes , says the clergyman , " the title of king of kings , lord of lords , seems to me , far too high a one , to have been ever applied by an inspired writer to a mere man . ' * I reply , that title is with the strictest pro-
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priety applied , by the inspire d writer , to him whom 4 < God has made higher than the kings of the earth , made both Lord and Christ , and given him a name above every name , that in his name every knee should bow , and
every tongue confess , that he is Lord , to the glory of God the Father . " But I still deny that , that title contains in it ( whatever it may seem to the clergyman to contain ) any thing like an asser . tion that Christ is God .
" J . M . " ( says the clergyman , ) c < allows that it is applied to Christ . But St . Jobn tells us , that it is the title of the Word of
God . " Surely this is an oversight of the clergyman , for to be consistent with what immediately follows he should have said , of God the Word .
He proceeds , „ " therefore J . M . must allowj that the ward of God is Christ . But St . John tells us , that the word of God is God . Therefore J . M . must either allow , that Christ is God , or deny that Christ is the word . He
allows however , that Christ is the word . He must allow therefore , that when John says the word is God , he in fact says Christ is God . " This is the passage to which I before referred , in which the short sentence , " the word
tvas God / ' is so repeatedly misquoted . Had the clergyman been able indeed to shew that Job " , or any one of the sacred writers , had asserted that , the word -is
God , or that Christ is God , he would have made a discovery for which trinitariana would have immortalized his name ; but no such assertion is to be found in the sacred writings . Trinitarians indeed , as woll ajs the clergyman
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250 J . M . ' s Reply to the Clergyman on the Divinity ' of Christ .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1808, page 250, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2392/page/22/
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