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ihingxan be , and the word was God /* John i . as also in denying his being from the beginning , against the very tenour of that of John i- and divers
others , as at large is shewn in the third chapter of this treatise . —Again , Question , But what Scriptures prove the Divinity of Christ , against such as falsely deny the same ? Answer , " And the word was God . "
" Whose are the fathers , and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came , who is over all , God blessed for ever . " Catechism , 1673 . 17 . After quoting the texts , " No man knoweth the Father , but the Son , or he to whom the Son will reveal him : "
—** t am the way , the truth , and the life : no man cometh unto the Father but by me ;"—he adds , ** Hence he is fitly called the mediator betwixt God and man . For having been with God from all eternity , being himself God ,
and also in time partaking of the nature of man , through him , is the goodness and love of God conveyed to mankind , and by him again man receiveth and partaketh of these mercies . " Apology , Lat . 1676 . Eng . 1678 , p . 10 .
18 . His ( John Brown ' s ) next perversion is yet more gross and abusive , p . 238 , where from my denying " That we equal ourselves to that holy man , the Lord Jesus Christ , &c . in whom the fulness of the Godhead
dwelt bodily ; " he concludes , * ' I affirm him to be no more than a holy man ; and because I use the words plenitudo Uivinitetis , thai I deny his Deity , which is an abominable fdl ^ ehoovl . I detest that doctrine of the Somnian * -, and deny tbere is any ground ft ** their
distittctiou ; and when I confess him to be a holy man 91 deny him not to be God , as this man nao&t injuriously would insinuate ; for I confess him to be really both true God , and true man . " Rvply to John Brawns Examination of his Apology *
From Rjlchard Cl ^ rid ^ e . 19 . We do also believe that he ( Christ ) was and is both God and man , in wonderful union , not a God by
creation or offjce , as some bold , nor man by the assumption of a human body only , without a reasonable soul , as others ; nor tfyat the manhopd was swaJ ! pw 64 up of tfce Qo 4 ti < & $ > W a
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third sort grossly fancy ; but God urecreated . . An J £ s $ ayon the Doctrine ofChrist ' s Satisfaction for the Sins of Mankind . 20 . We distinguish between a Scripture Trinity , Father , Son and Holy
Ghost , which we unfeignedly believe ; and that humanly devised Trinity of three distinct and separate persons , which we receive not ; because the Holy Scriptures make no mention of it .
Same Work . From Sewei / s History . ( Ed . 1705 . ) 21 . When the priest ( Geo . 3 rooks ) was speaking of the Trinity , T . Salthouse had asked him , Mr he re that word was to be found in the Scriptures ;
saying farther , " 1 know no such Scripture that speaks of the three persons in the Trinity 5 but the three that the Scripture speaks of , are the Father , the Son , aud the Holy Ghost , and these Three are One . " Page 211 , ( 1655 ) Vol . I .
22 . Extract from a Paper printed in l 6 Q 39 entitled " The Christian Doctrine , and Society of the People called Quakers , cleared , " Sec . We sincerely profess faith in God by his only begotten Son Jesus Christy as being our light and life , our only way to the Father , and also our only mediator and advocate with the Father .
That God created all things ; he made the worlds , by his Son Jesus Christ , he being that powerful and living word of God by whom all things were made ; and that the Father , the Word , and the Holy Spirit are one , in divine Being inseparable ; one true , living" , and eternal God blessed for ever .
We sincerely confess ( and believe in ) Jesus Christ , both as he is true God , and perfect man , &c . That divine honour and worship is due to the Son of God ; and that he is , in true faith to be prayed unto , and
the name of the Ix > rd Jesus Christ called upon , ( as the primitive Christians did ) because of the glorious union or oneness of the Father and the Son , &c Page 542 and 546 , Vol . II . Signed by George Whitehead and
Seven other Friends . P . S . I have to apologise for occupying so much room ; but in the words of a writer whom I have before
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1817, page 349, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2465/page/29/
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