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    « . W * J « i . f 5 « l L ' :. ^ A ^ : ' . y . "ly ' p&L * ' ' it ' v # J ^ ft ^ ^^ ^^^^ w $¥ * flSW > i ? # some ^ % ^ Mrmi t , r » , s ^ ges in the History ^ pf Early Opuuous . Vpl . IILp . 56 : " The doctrine of the incarnation , " Chrysostom . says , " was difficult to be received /* Here

    very the term incarnation fe very properly used , being the translation of the term cetftcvfreteq ; [ tytt * t > . * 88 , Oecumenius satys , * by first elements tlie apostle means the incarnation / ' Here the

    word is evapOpewnja-iv , and it should certainly hawre been translated , " The things relating to the human nature of Christ . " For Ke says , " what relates to the human nature must be learned

    in the first place ; but to philosophize concerning the divinity of Christ is left to grown men : " where Dr . Priestley , by translating this word €€ incarnation , ' * instead of €€ human nature , " has made the passage scarcely intelligible . Again , in p . 390 , Tertullian

    says , €€ Ergo nee compassus est Pater Filio , " which £ > r . Priestley translates , " Neither had the Father compassion for the Son . " It should have been

    rendered , Therefore neither did the Fatter suffer along with the Son . I hope I shall not be regarded as at all detracting from Dr . Priestley ' s wellmerited reputation b y these remarks ; but . in standard works , such as the

    History of Early Opinions well deserves to be considered , it is desirable that the minutest error should be corrected . ^ I would also observe , that the correction of these mistakes strengthens Dr . Priestley ' s main argument , and adds additional force to his proof , that

    the early Christians were Unitarians . I was very much struck with the following passage from Chrysostom , of which Dr , Pnestley has only given the substance in English , though he has quoted the whple in Greek : " Wherefore God hath highly exalted him . The heretics say , taut God gave him

    his exaltation through his suffering , as the reward of his suffering . And he hath given him a name above $ pery SW ^ tH $ t in the name of Jesii ? ejrejy krt ^ e should bpW , of things in . heaven , and of things upon earth , an ^ of things under tfie * £ *> rth , Thoii see ^ jthey 6 to , thai' he y vop exalted after his eracmxion , that he received his exaltation ^ iSNfiifa ^ $ * Wm ^ ' * To tm , Chrysofiftoni answers , tfili ohn t ^ Jlm ^ st called Jesus his superior beme 1 m sjififering . ttow far this is

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    a sufficient answer I leave to your rea " ^ ojAgfe . ^' l ^ fc irhc truth is , tli ^ t aspf ipi | 4 ies ise Scripture language , and Mapr it to their own creeds , if a person writ ^ to be

    understood , it is indispensably niecessary that hie should explain the sense in which he uses Scripture language ^ *>» w ords that are not scripturetf * Otherwise men may go on wrangling for evpr tQ ; n 9 , purpose , Sec . * * * * Xrftefy any one to say what

    n ^ y friend ' s Bible-Christianity i $ ?~ Mon Repps , p . 37 . . ., "' Sin , Hackney , Jlfiiy 15 , 1820 . ^ TTHE above passage from Mr . Bel-JL sham ' s letter , which escaped my notice until this hour , strikes me

    forcibly as well worth the attention of controversialists : it is exactly descrip * . tive of an idea I had always entertained , and which was more than ever confirmed upon reading two letters from the pen of the Rev . K . Aspland , in the Times of the 10 th and 1 lth of

    November last , * because these letters in which tie writer professed to explain to the world the Unitarian tenets , contained ( in a quotation from Mr . Butler ) a string of scriptural phrases , which taken as they are understood by , Christians in general , must still leave the uninformed reader in the dark , or

    perhaps I might be Justified in saying are calculated to mislead him , ( however inadvertently , ) by assimilating too closely difficult doctrines founded on the same passages of Scripture . A friend of mine , belonging to the Established Church , remarked upon these letters , that if those are the doctrines

    of the Socinians , he had entirely mistaken them ; and it was not until some of the phrases alluded to had teen explained to him , according to the peculiar construction of Unitarians , that the terms used , and the doctrines

    intended to be conveyed , coujid be at all reconciled to his satisfaction , and I doubt whether at last he wholly acquitted the author of writing raoer an impression | W hi ^ opm ^ fm "g fit to bisar the Jigh | , m $ MJm % * scrutiny of the Attgjri ^ yr ^ mM , , We are too apt to conclude , that language which i& familiar to ourselves is so to others , a *^ n » W ^ pte Author of those Letters wished to shew the

    real distinction bet \ veen the Unitarian scheme , and tjie jipmions of their ¦¦¦ ¦ ' ¦¦ ¦¦ ¦ ¦¦' , ' ¦ . ' ; """ ' ' See Mon . Repos . ittV . 707—712 .

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    ' -3 Bu * ' '' 336 On , Mr . Asplands Letters in mTt ^ tes : ^ ^^

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1820, page 336, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2489/page/12/