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of soul , as any of us ; for they have been taught that the Son was the Son from all eternity $ begotten , and yet , as begotten * as old as the Father ; and that as the Son , and begotten , he was very God ! . A darker doctrine than which I do n * ot remember to have met
with in Heathen mythology ! t € God was from eternity one ; and no more twaifi , than an unit , or than an indivisible particle ; and viewing him thus , witjiout any regard to his
works , he liveth and reigneth properly God . Exerting himself in creation , putting forth his power , speaking the word , Let there be light / &c , he receives properly the appellation of the Word .
4 € And whether he had ever begotten any offspring or not , he was potentially the * Kverlasting Father / as having the power of begetting ; and thus commencing actual Father whenever he pleased ; but actual Father he never was nor could be till he had
begotten an offspring ; and whenever he had done this , both the actual state of Fatherbooa and Sonship commenced , as when he actually created , he commenced actual Creator , and when he actually redeemed any one from bondage , he commenced actual Redeemer .
** Some may say , this represents him as beginning to be something , which he was not before . But it only represents him exerting his eternal powers and capacities , when and just as he pleaseth . What right have we
to conclude he must irom all eternity have been actually begetting , creating , redeeming , &c . ? Will it not suffice us that he ever had the power and capacity to exert himself in any or all these ways , or in any other way , just when he pleased ?
" Do we impute change or variation to him , pr argue that he is not just that in himself at one time as at another , unless we admit he is from all eternity exerting himself in the
actual creation of this terraqueous globe on which we dwell ? Or in the formation of the first man , Adam ? In directing Noah how to build the ark ; or in deluging the world with a general overflow of water ?
" Is lie not the great healer of breaches ? Is he not the Father of the fatherless and husband of the widow ? But could he ever be the actual healer
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of breaches before any breaches were made ? Could he be an actual Father to the fatherless or husband to the widow before the fatherless or widow existed ? Is he not a ' rich rewarder of all who diligently seek him * ? But
could he be their actual rewarder before ever they sought him or were in existence ? And could he any more be an actual Father , Creator or Redeemer , before ever he actually begat , created or redeemed ? Or could a son be begotten and have no mother ?
" The production of man on the earth was a work of creation ; and would it have been any thing different from creation , had the Almighty produced the man Christ Jesus without the medium of a mother ? Or if Christ
had existed as God and man co-eternal with the Father , how could he have been begotten ? Or how can a Son be begotten , if , as a son , he existed , co-eternal with the Father ?**—Pp . 35 —37 .
Should you deem the foregoing extracts suitable for insertion in your Journal , it may encourage me to send you some from another tract of the same author ' s . r THOMAS FOSTER . M ^ kM .
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142 Original-Letters from and to Richard Baxter *
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• Original Letters from and to Richard Baxter . ( From the Baxter MSS . in Dr . Williams ' s Library . )
From Major Beake to Baxter . [ This letter is indorsed in Baxter ' s hand-writing , Major Beak ' s Letter for credance to Mr . Sharpe then agent for the Kirk , but now Archbishop of St . Andrew ' s . Of the writer we know
no more than we find in Baxter ' s Life and Times , as follows : " When Oliver , Cromwell was dead , and his son almost as soon pulled down as set up , ( or upon their tumults voluntarily resigned their places , ) the Anabaptists grew insolent in England and Ireland ;
and joining with their brethren in the army were every where put in power ; and those of them , that before lived in some seeming friendliness near me at Bewdley , began now to shew that they remembered all their former
provocations ( by my public disputation with . Mr . Tombes , and writing against them , and hindering their increase in those parts ) . Ai ) d though they were not much above twenty , ( men and women near us , ) they talked as if they
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1825, page 142, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2534/page/14/
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