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    Mau ' a soul * or of any nature of hie at all I . think that I do not mistake your notion , but the subject id too large for me in so little room to give you my further thoughts to every

    particular matter , or reasoning of yours , Only to hint something that may possibly serve to forelay and facilitate your meditations , if you should be further engaged in that controversy . The preexistence of the man Christ Jesus , I told you , is the radical Hick with

    me , all our divisions deriving from it . But to the matter ; I urged you with the constant assertion in Scripture , of whole Christ being by descent of human race , seminally in the loins of David , Acts ii . 30 ; and of Abraham , as Levi was , Heb . vii . 5 , 14 , made of

    his seed , Rom . i . 3 . To that you answer , that it speaks of his flesh oply . Now , I know not but that possibly that interposition * ( . according to the flesh , ) in this case , might be with pro-• • • a ¦ • •

    vision against some that took him to have but an aerial body only , or to notify his substance to derive from the fathers , with precaution against the disbelief of his singular miraculous conception , having no Father as to that but God . But that distinction

    followed in your sense , ( contrary to the common import of the word , speaking of man , Deut . v . 26 , Matt . xxiv . 22 , &c > , ) will oblige you to make good the preeminence , as well of all souls as of Christ ' s . For , that the Apostle affirms the alliance of Christ

    to the patriarchs , of whom he was , Rom . ix . 5 , to be the same with his own to th * same stock , ver . 1 , both Kara crjipxoc alike * I have not read Glanvil , but have others , particularly Mr . \ Baxter , treating of the traductioiv pf original pravity , with whom I am

    satisfied that man begets his species , ( as well as even every animal else , ) according to the institution of nature , Gen . i . 22 , 27 , 28 , &c ., and that ( with the Divine concourse ) he begets the soul , or nothing at alL Anima . generat animaai , mens mentem , with

    rehe says , ' * Here Is nothing stuck at ot the common doctrines but only the coeternity , " &c . , he means that these were the only points of the common doctrine witK which he supposed Enalyn could not agree according to the line of argument he had taken . H . R . B .

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    spefct to which His , thai any One is said to be in the loins of another , Acts xiii . 23 ; or such a soul to come out of them , Gen . xlvli < $ & Subsistent spirits were created before the body of Adam , but not his soul , Gen . ii . 7 . Eve was of God made of atiimated matter , and we read of no soul created for her , or breathed into her , eh . ii . 22 . So was Jesus the Son of

    God ( having no other father ) made of a woman , Gal . iv » 4 ; all of him I take it , that is the Son . Whose soul grew in wisdom ( no Platonic reminiscence ) as . his body did in stature , Luke ii . 62 ; the Logos , according tb you , having lost all . You * further grant to me that no proof cau be made & priori ,

    of the preexistence of the soul of Christ , ( nothing of it is recorded in the history of his generation or conception , ) but to that 'tis sufficient you say , that by consequenee and implication A posteriori , it is provable * vis . from the acts add deeds of him the

    Son of Man ascribed to him to be done before born of a woman . For his coming down from heaven , ( his very flesh too , John vi . 50 , 51 , ) you know my sense of such texts . John

    xvi . 28 , 30 , seems to import no more than ch . xviL 8 , xviii . 37 > where to be sent and to be born are exegetically put for same with coming out from God and into the world . So ch . viii .

    23 , from above , and how it may be true literally too ; tho such meiapha * rical speech was the common use of the Jews in all their teaching , and so of Christ's . But your main instance

    of fact predicated of Christ is that of his creation of all things . Your Answerer has prevented me in what I would say to that . If you can ' t refute him ( which I can ' t do in that point ) , * f- » » m - m * «

    the Sociman notion onl y remaining , or what ; amounts to it , will , for all the difficulties attending it , remain firm ; but a little more to that . That Creator and creature divide all being ; is what not only the light of nature dictateth , but is grounded on that of the Apostle , Rom . i . 25 ; ( whence your

    adversary might , by the way , have found his own hypothesis subverted of a God-mxtn , one being subsistent , since that unity of being * transcends that of operation ;) but withatl , a creative power is the incommunicable property of the Supream God , and id made the demonstration of his eternal Godhead ,

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    Lorrespondence tetiiwen Mr . Kirdpn and Mr . Morning * 35

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1826, page 35, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2544/page/35/