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      tire applicable to the first creation , < and God was the word / 9 6 ome read it * And our old translations render the following verses t ( jt , " impersonally . But John going on in the allegorical way of teaching common with the Jews , ( such as Rom . v , 14 ,

      1 Cor . iv . 6 , x . 4 , Gal . iv . 24 , 1 Pet . iii . 21 , &c ., ) he rnetaleptically carrieth it all over to the person of Christy Rev- xix . 13 , and his renovation of all things and a new parallel * f & 9 X ? s or beginning , ( ch . xvi . 14 , ) the very same that he refers to , 1 John i . 1 , ii . 24 , &c . In which the Son of Man was the life and the light too , John xii . 35 , 46 , not meaning to give us an history of the old creation , such as was never brought to light before ; but of that Heb . ii . 5 . The ages formed by him , ch . i . 2 , opposed to the former of old , Tit . i . 2 , the same word , so Heb . vi . 5 . You hare read Mr . N . of the Logos , and Plato Unveiled , ( now Englished , ) and I can say no more . / Is . lxv . 17 . )

      Something noted by me in the reading- of your Answerer , I might further hint , had I room for it . He wisely prefaces his confession of ignorance about the distinction in God , but should have said of the unity of him . For when he has told of the Father ' s voluntary parting with his right of rule , and devolving it on his Son , and his voluntary condescention

      to stoiipe down to undertake his incarnation ( an operation ad extra too ) and ministration in his offices , &c , surely no reader or hearer of his can be ignorant but that is two wills and two intelligent beings . But beyond all , in the matter touching the media * tion and object of worship , be is perfectly lost . To the Heathen there were ' * Gods many / ' yea supream to to the vulgar , so currant that such as Plato and Seneca durst not teach against it ( the former owns it ) for the fear of Socrates his fate , and to the learned lords or demon mediators many , Acts xvii . 19 , 1 Cor . viii . 5 , but to us but one of each , ver . 6 , to the latter ( not ascribing neither the

      creation } they paid only subordinate homage . But will the author deny any religious worship at all to be due to the Son of Man , an object of sense F John \ x . 37 , 38 , Luke xxiv . 50 , 52 . If so he is not of the Christian reli-

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      > - - ; . i ' gion !• ' Btit if Be worships Oestor and creature ( God-man ) in one £ ohjurict idea of the ultimate object Inclusively , he firfct deifies a , cfeactcrr ^ , an hypostatieal conjunction being ( it possible ) the ultiimim quod sit of a

      deification * beyond an ; apotheosis * What else can humanify the brvtd nature but such an unity with the mental ? And then to gay to it tiliU mate worship was repudiated by ail the wiser Heathen , as not due to any creature , but to God alone . Wild

      then is it that his reflections-vffll ? m& upon of blasphemy , &c 3 if Chrailif not the Supream God ? If the manner of the Scripture writings bfe not attended , ( wherein in forty instances of the rendering of Christ ' s owii words out of the Syriac language into

      the Greek the evangelists differ , ) and some fundamental rules of interpretation be not forelaid to regulate the same , on all hands occasion ma ^ be ? taken to charge each other with subterfuges , harsh or forced construction , &c , possibly such as yet no man could avoid . But the truth

      itself will never be found out or be agreed on in difficult points . You and I are at our ne plus ultra . Your adversary bespeaks a candid answer , ( and one is needful , ) but will he obtain for you a lycence to do it ? He would have none to read you without an antidote ^ but does he think that

      your suffering for your essay might not have been antidote enough if he had wrote nothing ? Your circumstances are grievous to me , but I don ' t dispair of your release in time . I wish you had a few pages of mine on another subject to peruse , but it can't now be .

      I remain yours cordially . Thus far the letter . The remainder of the paper is filled with remarks , which appear by the writing to have been noted down afterwards , they are as follow :

      * So thought Socinus when he concurred in the shameful treatment of Davides . Alas ! that ever such disciples of a meek and hurahle Master should forget even for a moment the spirit that actuated their instructor . H . R . B .

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      Correspondence between Mr . Emlyn and Mr . Manning . 3 /

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1826, page 37, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2544/page/37/