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tp vulgar a ^^ pfii ^^^ C « % M he vvas really uke other @ £ § Pt ^ Sr verily if- anima generaldmrniim , witn
divine xoncourse , it will be no gr ^ at matter to believe Christ might witli a more full concourse be able to £ &P > £ 7 rate men and other less noble parts of the creation . I allow Christ ' s soul
to be superangelick in its capacitys * ajid I find the Arians held ( many of ' em ) th ^ t the l ogo s was his soul as well as Apollin&rius > as to the ^ ame or -different species with our spirits , * tis another pfiilosophick point
which the gospel minds not ; . according to vulgar account , the human species is determined by the bodily shape andpartsC ); a beast's soul with an human body wou'd pass for a man , as there be some such who excell not
a beast in sagacity ; so that I take a man to be only an erabodyed spirit , ( that is in an human body , ) especially if born of a woman , as that phrase OaL iv < - 4 , may import , yea tho' it Jia $ been an angel before , ( which is 4
but a name of office not of nature , )() ior-they are called inen in Scripture when they appeared in human shape tho * oijly transientl y ^ much more if they had been so fixed and subject to the laws of our condition ; so that , according to me , a spirit either in or
related to a human body , is a man ; « lse take spirits abstractedly from all such relation , and then ^ for ought I jcnow , there may be many distinct species among them we call human souls , if we judge by their various ca * p&citys and operations 5 for that spirits generate and are generated of one another , and so are ranked into their
species this way , is not manifest , at least Christ was not of the common species upon this ground , not being ( generated by a human father , but by him who is the Father of spirits ; but
he becapme of the s ^ rne species , according to me , when he took an human body andJurth , and ( 5 ) his spirit might grow up in the exercise of wisdom with liis ' organs ; and so for a little while he was lower than
angels . Heb . ii . 7 . ( 6 ) As to the Logos , John i ., 1 think I am not mistaken in Philo , who speaks also of an hypostatical logos , whom he calls ( as I remember ) the oldest of the creatures and the instrument of God in creation , and
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^ 9 p ) i ^ ' f ^^ ' % - fipd ^ M ^^^^ spoke after tjie Anan opi ^ jjpa abqp t theliOgps . If Christ ' s coii %$ 3 pwa and
from ^ ie ave | i from God $ notegno more , ' - ' . fts foii Ijuat , than Ws com pg into the world and Jus bmmissic * p from Cod , why are jnot others ey $ ? said to come down from heaven ,
neither prophets nor apostles ; but he alone of all that Avere commissioned from God ? 1 Cor . xv . 47 , I remember not to have granted there is up proof Qf Ckrist ' s praeexistenoe a priori , ( tho * 1 said th ^ re inicfht be suffiv ien ^ otherwise , ) for I think such te ^ ts as Col . i . 15 , 16 , \ 7 , speak fair for it , in
their most open sense . But you are most stumbled , at ] tt % e ascribing the old creattou of all t ^> him , being incorpxnunicably proper ( say you with the Answerer ) to the
Supreatn God ; and tliat ^ tis harsh to say a man gave being to all things which the Scripture makes the proof of a Deity . ( 7 ) To this I have a few things to reply . 1 st . That he wa ? not a man till he took flesh awd w& 3
born of a woman ; hut ( 2 nd ) I- -say nof that he is the Creator of all tilings , but that God created ail b y him , which is a ( 8 ) vast difference and niqely observed by the Scripture . I suppose the power of God to b p exerted thro ' him in this , as in workiuej other mirur
cles . Life i § the noblest part of the creation , and yet he caused it vyh e ^ he raised the dead , by power from God , and cau he not as easily , l > y the same power , cause the less noble creatures ? Tho' tlijs power be given out at the Father ' s will , antd no otherwise inherent iu him thanks Uie
fulLness of the Deity dwells 1 a lain , or # t least tliau those words . John v . 26 , 28 , do intend , which you mivst answer to as well as I . ( 3 rd . ) That ne is never honoured with the title < pf tjie Creator , but it belongs to the Sup ream alone , pot to the minister , ( just as ' tis God's peculiar to l > c he who raises the
dead anil makes alive , 2 Cor . i . 0 j it is not sai < [ of any apostles , &c , tho ' they might minister in it ,. ) so . that ^ lia still the Father ' s peculiar * and the Scriptures never speak of Christ ' ^ agency in tliiiv , but expressly as ministerial , God by him . ( 4 th . ) To say that by him . God created all things , is no harsher in sound thaja that in
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1826, page 88, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2545/page/24/
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