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opinions , but mere promises of what God will work in us , I know not know , sine nobis , though indeed they be delivered in fashion , like precepts .
These , and many other such dangerous consequences , do and i&ust necessarily arise from that reew . invented fatal necessity ; a doctrine that fourteen centuries
of Christianity never heard of . If we will inquire after the old and good ways , we shall find the gospel itself by its own author called a * law : for thus saith the Psalmist
ii » : < theiperson of Christ : a I will preach the law , whereof the Lord bath said unto me , Thou art my son ^ thi s day hive 1 begotten thee . *' ( Ps ; iir 7 . <) And how familiar are such speeches as those in our Savour ' s month : 4 C This is my command : a new commandment sh be
I ^ g tve unto you : ye my disciples , if ye do those things which I command you ? " Among the- aatient Fathers , we find not only that Christ is a lawgiver , but that he hath published laws which were never heard of before ; that
he hath enlarged the antient precepts and enjoined new ; and yet now ' tis JSocinianism to t « ay but half so much * « Y . . ' . '¦ ¦ 1 sS ¦ ' '•'
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^ N o . XVII . r ^ Christian Paradoxes . r * % fe , by whom all things were made , even the eternal almighty
W ^ r d ; he , which thought it no flSSfbeiy to be equal with God ; became his own creature , and tubmitted himself to be trod upon , reviled , hated , despised by the wpiftt of fill creatures , cruel , un . | p 41 y ^' fj 4 pej ^ rse jiinjieRi : Jfjg , f £ whoscj , fulness we have All re-- ' • . 'I i •• ¦ , .,..
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ceived , did utterly evacuate and empty himself of his glory and majesty , denying to himself such things , which , _ he would not even to the most despised creatures . — —
So poor he was ^ that he was forced to borrow" trfoutiemoney of a fishj and was fain to strain himself to a miracle to get the fish to bring it : so poor , that he was forced to borrow a young colt of strangers , never known to
him : Say > saith he , the Lord hath need of kirn * A strange unheard of speech ! The Lord that created the world , and can as easily an * hihilate it , yet he hath need , and hath need of a colt , the foal of an ass **
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No . XVIIL Arianism * In a word , whosoever shall freely and impartially consider of the thing , and how on the other side the antient Fathers' weapons
against the Arnans are in a man * ner onely places of scripture , ( and those now for the most part discarded as impertinent and unconeluding , ) and how in the argu * ment drawne frona the authority of the antient Fathers , they are
almost alwayes defendants , and scarse ev « r opponents ; he shall not choose but confesse s or at least be very inclinable to beleeve , that the doctrine of 4 rriu $ Is eythera truth , or at least no damimt > l * Haeresy .
¦• The above is from ChillingworthA Fourth Sermon : I > ut the reader shoul ^ consult the Note on Chillingworth * * 5 cr * mons in the Biief Memofry M . R& *' for April , p . 3 X 4 . < r
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1814, page 558, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2444/page/34/
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