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admitted , that immortality is elsewhere described as a likeness of God , yet it does not thence follow , when Adam is -said to be formed after the
image of God , that the image was immortality : for every thing which the Scripture designs by the image of God , is not necessarily intended , when man is said to be formed in the image of God . It is sufficient that there be
same excellent quality in man , for which he is said to bear the image of God . Among other places 1 see , p . 232 , a reference to Romans viii . 29 , where the foreknown and predestinated by God , are said to be con *
formed to the image of his Son , that fie might be the first-born among many brethren * The author supposes immortality and eternal life to be intended by the image to which we must be conformed . * I , however
conclude , that not so much eternal life is here intended , as the way to attain it , in which the faithful are to resemble Christ , namely , by afflictions and the cross ; which resemblance our Lord points out to his disciples ,
Luke xxiv . 26 : Ought not Christ to have suffered these things , and to enter into his glory ? The connexion of the chapter confirms this sense , for he had said , ver . 17 > we are heirs of God and
joint heirs with Christ ; if so he that we suffer with 7 iim 9 that we may he also glorified together . And it is remarkable , that , on that occasion , the faithful are exhorted to bear the cross and
afflictions for the sake of the gospel , and are urged among other arguments by the Divine will , which purposes t 6 bring us to salvation by the cross . And lest they should deem it rigorous for God to send so many evils in this
world upon those whom he loves , lie proposes to them the example of Christ , unto whose image God liad predestined them to be conformed , and consequently called them to endure the cross . And , in the sequel , lie further shews them , that those
afflictions , by which they were united to Christ , could not possibly separate them from the love of God . The Scripture here , and in many other places , declares , that if we would be partakers of Christ ' s glory we must , like him , endure the cross , 2 Tim . ii . _ * * Works , p . 559 .
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11 , 12 , and especially Heb . ii- 10 : For it became him , for whom , are all things , and by whom are all things , in bringing many sons unto glory , to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings . And by this
argument he specially exhorts the faithful to the patient endurance of persecution . 1 Pet . iv . 12 , 13 y Heb . xii . 1 , 2 , 3 . This , I believe , to be the image of Christ , to which the apostle says that God has predestinated us to be conformed , Rom . viii . 29 , with which agrees what we read , Acts xiv . 2 £ , 2 Tim . iii . 12 .
The author remarks , p . 246 , that he has not met with any instance in which the Lord Jesus " assumes to himself the title of Priest , or mentions any thing relating to his priesthood . The priestly office of Christ is certainly revealed to us in the apostoliG Epistles , and especially in the Epistle
to the Hebrews . And though it must be admitted , that the Lord Jesus no where in the gospels claims the title of priest , yet it cannot be denied that he sometimes claims to act as a priest 5 for he says expressly , that he was about to give his life , XvTpov avrt TtoXhuv , Matt . xx . 28 , He calls his
blood the blood of the New Testament which is shed for many ? for the remission of sins , Matt . xxvi . 28 . We cannot deny that this had reference to the priesthood . Wherefore it were , perhaps , better to omit this , and not supply an occasion for the cavils of those who are ever disposed to calumniate .
Besides these , I have met with other things in that treatise , which appear scarcely consistent , as , probably , the author has not fully explained himself . He says , p . 13 , " Adam being thus turned out of paradise , and all his posterity born out of it , the consequence of it was , that all men should die and remain under death for ever , and so be utterly lost . From this estate of death / ' he says , " Jesus Christ restores all mankind
to life , " and this by the law of faith , which afterwards he fully proves to be contained in the gospel . + These things , in my judgment , are truly said ; but I cannot clearly understand how they agree with what we meet * Works , p . 562 . f ibid . p . 509 .
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The Correspondence between Locke and Limlorchf translated . 673
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1818, page 673, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2482/page/9/
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