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at the Cathedral Church of St . Paul , London ; or as she afterwards declared them , in the years 1764-5 , at the very same place , hy the mouth of Dr , Benjamin Dawson ? If we listen to her first oracle , we shall be told that * to the beginning , before there was any creature , ( consequently from all eternity ) the Word
existed ; and the Word was no distant , separate power , estranged from God , or unacquainted with Him ; but he was with God , and himself also very God : not another God , but , another person only , of the same nature , substance and Godhead . ' But if we attend to the other , ,-we shall learn , that such is not the
meaning of the evangelist , but that the Word is the gospel . ' This was , John tells us , from God himself ; for that in the beginnings before % t was published to the world , it was with God ; God was the word , the original author and giver of it . ' Which of these are we to regard as the dictate of the Church of England ?
As you refer to some intelligible commentary , it cannot be the first ; I would gladly persuade myself , therefore , that you mean the latter , as this core men tary , proceeding from the Metropolitan church , is nearly the same that I have long been -accustomed , as a Unitarian , to maintain . "—Pp . 125—127 .
Nothing of the kind can be more pertinent and conclusive than the reasoning which we have now transcribed . As an argument ad hominem , ifc is overpowering : but it has much more than an individual application , and deserves to stand at the head of "
Articles designed to prevent diversities of opinion concerning true Religion I " To the question , " Why do we read that in him [ Jesus Christ ] dwelt all the fulness of the Godhead bodily" ? Mr . Wellbeloved ' s answer is the
following : " Why did the apostle pray ( Epli . iiu 19 ) , that the disciples at Ephesus c might be filled with all the fulness of God' ? " * When the Archdeacon of Cleveland inquires , ' Why do we read that he had power to forgive sins , ( and who can forgive , sins lm | r , &od only ? ' ) his censor refers him
to l ^ umb . xii . 11 5 1 Sam . xv . 24 ; JoluijXfc . 23 ; and proves that he ha ? mistaken the import of our Lord ' s worcta in Matt . ix . 2 , 6 ; in the latter of whicji verses , let it be further remarked , the term [ z % ov < ri < xv \ rendered powery signifies " delegated power .
• Mr , Wellbeloved correctly quotes Coloss ; ii . 10 , as a parallel text .
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The dignitary refers next to Jolin v . 21 : ^ As the father raiseth up the dead , and quiekeneth them , even so the Son quickeneth whom he will / But the twenty-sixth verse of this very chapter [ f As the Father hath life in himself , so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself *} might
have taught Archdeacon Wrangharn , that this high prerogative is conferred , and not essent i ally inherent . So , again , when we read that , ' . as the Father knew Himlf Jesus Christ } , even so knew he the Father / the context makes it plain that it is not the personal nature of the Father and of the
Son , which forms the subject of the speaker ' s observation , but the designs of the Father and the commission of the Son . * At the same time , the passage [ John x . 14 } quoted by Mr . Wellheloved , effectually repels his antagonist ' s attempt at ' erecting on the basis of such phraseology the received tenet of the deity of Chrfet . €
In respect of John v . 23 , that ( all men should honour the Son even as they honour the Father / ' we have it on the Archdeacon of Cleveland ' s own authority , that the word translated even as " frequently denotes , not equality , but such an analogy ( in
many cases far from complete ) as the character of the things spoken of admits /* Here we think him indisputably right . Yet , without laying all the stress on this criticism , which , however , it will in reason bear , we interpret the passage by what precedes and follows . Why are all men
to honour the Son even as they honour the Father ? Clearly because the Father hath committed to him , ( ver . 22 , ) all judgment . Then cowries tha inquiry , In what consists this honour ? As evidently , in acknowledging the perfections of the Father , and in admitting his attestations to the claims of the . Son . f [ Verses 32 ,
34 , 37 , 38 , 43 . } According to Archdeacon Wrangham , " Jesua is the true God , and eternal life / ' It was little probable that an affirmation so unlearned and so unscholar-like , would fail of being corrected by his opponent . . " I deny , " says the author of the
? Mon . Repos . XI . 532 , &c . + The phraseology and sentiment are illustrated by Luke x , 16 .
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*^ & Review . — JFellbeloved $ Letters to Archdeacon fPrangfeim
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1825, page 98, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2533/page/34/
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