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^ tteaftf ^ tttkn to say a j »^ stall i ^ & ^ m ^ mWi ^ % tito ** & &g i | ft it tte thfc pecMiar < rf Gbfl tdT > e ja % e of alt Hfeb ; xin 23 . Tb ^ t t&kr Rom : i . 20 ^ o « Iy ^ saysC&Ka # « % may tye proved from , t ± i ^ e created tratne because it supposes a first cause , notr
tteir every one e 6 n 6 femed in forming the parts is that first cause , but it leads ^ at last to one that is such , beefeitse no secondary cause or
instrument € tftt * q ac'fc without a first eaurse . ( Stfc , ) 'T&it -Ma itiintttrAtidft ift the creation gave him no such dominion or ^ pr teJtiS fe- the ' rfe ^ ard of hfe obedience , mi wkith he is now made
a fj 0 TO % ftd "Sa ^ dttiv aa the apostles became not lords " over them ttey raised from the dead or healed . You say tig * being a Creator will prove hi ^ ipacity fa knowledge from Ps ; x # v * ft Ifc but it will be said that text
speaker \ 6 f tlie Creator ahd Masterbuiider , not the subordinate minister , and I believe I may as well argue from yotir concession , Shall not he that j udges « ill men and hearts know ? which you will allow Jesus Christ to do . You say it will driveO ?) to an
inferior God ; I allow it if by a greater God and a lesser be meant one Supream God and oneXord Jesus ; 'tis just ^ he Scripture style ; and tho' Gal * iv , 8 speaks of the Supream God ,
yet may Christ be allowed to be an iafmor Elohim or Lord > < f > v < rei , or in reality , in opposition to the fiction and usurpation of the P&gan d&mons , and thus there will be an infinite
distinction between the one Grod and one Lord > which is all I am concerned to niaintaifti I find so great things said ° f Jesus Christ , tkat I am ready ^ to suppose he is as great as wiH consist
with his subjection to l j ia Father , and I wish they had ke £ t to the Nicene Oreefl , Goti of God ^ which ne ^ er pinched rtie Unitarians , but only the 1 wmou&id 8 adtted , for that phrase will not imply the original and derivative God to be of the same kind ; rather I think it is impossible they fchou-d be so , as mudi as for God to create
another God like himself . I had almost forgot to observe , that since you gmnt John i . I , to speak of the natural elation at the beginning , ( ll > it wJH be ^ hard to make out a transition aftefrWkrd ^ frotii th ^ j natural to a mvs-
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of aft alle ^ oriem seiwe ^ s la such p laces wUiclv y ^ i fro * M jp ^ raffel ^ dth it > . a « Gal . iv . 24 , &c , and as hard
wiH it be to perswade that the Logos there is not a proper person ^ and the same with Jesus : to m ake a , do able transition , one from the natural to the moral creation , and another from
the Pi tine Log-as or wisdom to . the human Logos or Man Christ , will be judged verjj viblent and arbitrary , like an ^ accommodating the text to bur opinion , which will raise a great cry .
It ver . 10 speak of the old world made by the Logos , then the 12 th verse shews it was a person , and Christ too , by the phrase of believing in his name , so often said of the Son of God . I
must finish with adding that my affair isjiistas it was , ahd that I am sincerely yours . . T . E ,
Mr . Manning ' s Notes . What is within asserted dotli not indeed infer more supream Gods than one , but the Arian notion gave the rise and introduction to the owning of
more than one very God , thoVthe begotten God ( Christ ) be subordinate in his subministration , ( as Dr . Fowler asserts , ) and begetting a Son sounds not like the making of a creature of nothing . ,
But to what is returned to mine , I have yet to reply in short . C ) That tho' the Son of ) God , so termed , begotten of the Virgin , waa not generated or made like as other men be ^ yet answers it nothing to niy main allegation , that he was the Son of
Man , and if so , his v / bole person was seminally in the loyns of David , Acts it . 00 , and to . spring of such a tribe . ( 9 ) The dof trine of the origine of human souls , Adam ' s and a : ll his
progferiy % I think is not left to us in the darke , but 'tis that Christ generated Adam ' s and Evil ' s , or any othfer . ( 3 ) It appears to me that the term angel is not a bare appellative , but a name also of nature , Heb . xii . 22 , 23 , in distinction from human spirits , and
that neither a beast ' s soul , ( contrary to nature , ) iwjbodyed in an human shape , would constitute a man , nor that the human species k determined onl y by tie bodily shape . ( 4 ) Neither can I assent to it , thrat the angels of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1826, page 89, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2545/page/25/
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