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tionai principle in man distinct from his body , could not easily be induced to belietc that a pre-existent spirit constituted the rational principle or soul of Christ . And they who think it strange and absurd , that the Maker &i the world should become a tender
infant , and pass through the dill . fere lit stages of human life , will be inclined to put some other interpretation on those passages of scripture which seem to reveal thus doctrine * But who will pronounce it i rrational to suppose that the self-e . vstenkJeiiQiVah
commissioned ; his son to form this world and that system of which it constitutes a part ? or , who will say that it is ajbsurd to believe that this exalted person might take upon him the human form for . benevolent nnd important * purposes ? It is indeed wonderful , and furnishes matter for the
warmest gratitude that , God so loved the world as to send his onty begotten Son into it , ? iot to condemn the world , but that the XQorld through him might be saved . It appears to nie not improbable ( as I suggested , many years
ago , in the Theological Repository , ) that each system- of worlds may have a Being of a similar nature , appointed by the great
Creator of all , as its maker and Vicegerent . This supposition derogates nothing frum the unrivalled power and glory of the self . cxistent Jehovah , oh whom
these glorious beings must be equally dependant with the meanest of his Creatures , whilst it vastly increases the sum of happiness that is enjoyed in the universe . For , how great the delight which these delegates of the most High would derive from being employed in communicating his
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blessings to inferior oriler 9 of / b » ings I This however is onfy matter of conjecture . But that Christ was the maker of our world , I conclude from the declaration of John I . 10 . He was in the world ? and the world { not etioov but KOcjAQf ) was made by him , and the 'world knew him not . Mr . B . says thai there is not one instance in which
the word yivotxcu in the ^ N . T . signifies to create . Let hiirt turn to Heb . xj . 3 , where this word is used and must have that signi- * fication . There are many passages in ; which it exactly corres * - ponds with , our word made ^ and I think it can have iu > . other sense
in this striking and decisive declaration of St . John . If we farther suppose that Christ was the makeiy >\ of the solar systenr , the idea appears to me sufficiently
extensive for what ihe same apostle says v . 3 * All things were made by hij ^ jan & withou t him was not any thing made that was made , and also for that declaration of St . Paul , Col . I . 1 & . For by him were all things created that are in heaven and that are m earth . This will appear to some tod limited a sense for these words . But how arty can understand thftf last passage and the verses , witk which it staiuls connected ,, in a sense consistent with the simple , humanity of Christ , appears to me strange . J ^ r . Doddridge say » iC to interpret this as the
Soeinians do , of the new creation in a spiritual sense , is so unnatural , that one could hardly believe h if the evideac were not > so ^ undeniably sfi'ong , that \ any , set of learned con ^ nientators . could fall into it . > , For it is gifter the apoatie bad spoken of Qlirist as' tkc intagt ) qf \ the invisible God , the first born oj the whole creation
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AfA Carpenters Remarks on Mr . Belshdms Strictures . Let * IlflSitg
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1808, page 323, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2393/page/31/
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