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old , appearing m humah shape , sod by misprison called aiidi a while , as Judges xiii . 6 , 8 , 21 , weTe tniel y meii , nor did ever any one inform a nunian body * It would subvert the institu-5
tions of nature . () Nor admit of it readily , that an angel , much less the Creator or Maker of them all , should , if incorporated , be divested of the use of his memory and reason , to grow tip to it by time and exercise , all anew and at full age to need still thfc Holy Spirit ' s endowment , John Hi . 34 , Lsa « xi , 2 , 3 , whom he made . No angel appearing in human shape ever was divested of the use of his faculties , good nor bad spirit . Neither to remember any thing past with him , to lose his knowledge , that never came in by sensation .
( 6 j Ml Nye * has confuted Sandius ' s fathering upon Philo the Jew , the assertion of the Logos , ( or Word , Joh . i . 1 , ) a person being in&trumental 5 n the old creation , and denies that any Jew ever affirmed it of the archangel superintendent over it , much less of the Messiah then existent .
And for the term coining down from heaven , ( a criticism , ) it may import no more than John viii . 23 , 2 Cor . xii . 3 , &c ., no local removal , tho' so from heaven as no other ever was , John viii . 42 .
() True it is , that the same is no little stick with me . That Gods made the world ( a plural ) we read Gen . i . 1 . So of our Makers , Job xxxv . 10 , and Creators toa , Eccles . xii . 1 . What made our translators flinch from the so rendering it then , if it ought so to be believed , or wlrat curse should follow it } Jer . x . 11 . The thing ia true ac %
* This is the Mr . JN . mentioned in Mr . Manning ' s answer to tfce letter of December 23 rd , an eminent Nonconformist divine who , in 1633 , fled into Holland to avoid the persecution d { Laud ; on the change of affairs he returned to England , and , 1643 , was sent with the commissioners into Scotland .
He was one of the boldest and ablest advocates of Independency , and in 1658 was one of the principal managers in the assembly of the Congregational Churches . After the Restoration he was ejected from the rectory of St . Bartholomew , &nd preached privatel y to a congregation of Dissenters till his death , 1672 ! H . II . B .
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cording to jths Arian Eypeth ^ is , andiof easy conception too . C ) Buttben why belongs act the title of Creator as wcill to Christ ? Is not Cfcrist said to work miracles himself , as well as God bhimJohn Hi 11 iv 54 simpl
y , . , . , y without tbat distinction , John xii . ) , &c . ? But to quicken the dead , 2 Kings viii . 5 , Acts xx , 9 , is no simple , crea * lion , so John v . 21 , requiring , a greater ( not less as y < m suggest ) power to it .
Whence * tis the appropriate style < rf God alone expressly said , per * e 3 Isa . xliv . 24 , &c . ; not so to raise the dead nor to judge the world , John v * 22 , Acts x . 42 , 2 Got . v . WJ ^ &e , y 'tis no peculiar of his ; nbf any effect € «• 0 |* e * ration at all , if that of the creation ibe uot ineooimumcable . While too the
creation of the heavens and the earth ( the common epithet of the ^ oldJerea * ti < m ) is Ho where attriblited ^ o Ghflst in Bay sense at all , but of rnigeis , ( 9 ) OFof tltat text ,-Bom . t * ^ @ , 25 ; If Ghmt be the imiBBdiate efficient * ithe Greaior and Builder of $ 11 things ? Hfcb . iii * 4 , how then is God ^ on * by
tradistin ^ uished m these titles , and Christ never applied unto by them , as A ^ ts iv ^ 241 Why claims he not that style ais Well as that of Lord and Saviour ? His efficiency being in nothing but ministerial all , no first cause , and Ps . xciv , 8 , 9 , is
an argument A fart \ wi 9 and * b ore than to know some thing's Ofely as you assert of him that made all tbmgs , and if so must needs be capable of inspecting them equally ; and no title of superiority , tho * subordinate , can hav ^ an higher spring- than what ia founded in giving beuig to any one , if but secondary in it . Is , x . 12 . 1
0 ) Neither did Igrajrt , tfeat I Icnow of , tht ^ t John i . 1 , treats of the natural creation . I said that the old translation bespeafcB the I * ogo £ itapersoQal ,
bat that John , aUudiog omy to the first creation ia speaking to another subject-matter , uses the same tenn of a pers 6 n , « fo . applying it to Christ , the word or wisdom too of God . 1 Con
i , 24 , as of old iB spoken of the flat or divine command , nor doth John i . coincide with . Gen . i . * Tis Qod here , the Logos there , and not God by him . ( 1 O ) But the close &lls in with much of nay thoughts what the Arian notion will at la $ t issue in , ( viz . ) two Gods , Creators or Makers of the heavens
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90 Ootresp&ndencS between Mr . EmtjfWuhd > Mf . * Mamin& >
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1826, page 90, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2545/page/26/
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