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will of the flesh , nor of the will of wan , but of G < wL 14 . Aod the Word was
made flesh and dwelt axnong us , ( and we beheld his glory , the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father , ) full of grace and truth .
Ver . 15 th was omitted * 16 * And of his fulness have we all received , and grace for grace . 17 . For the law was given by Moses , but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ .
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14 . And thus at last was prepared the way for the most extraordinary manifestation of the Word that ever the world beheld , as a living word , a speaking rule , a
standing oracle of truth and life to all ages ; appearing in the form of a man , tabernacling among us under the character of the only-begortten of the Fathery with fall power to impart the will and counsel of God , and all the most valuable fruits of his favour and grace . ' ''
16 aud 17 . EXappjucev signifies for the most part the time past , aud also sometimes a continuance of the same action . 1 choose to render it thus : And it is from the fulness of authority , of frisdom and power residing in this Word , that all the prophets and divine messengers from the beginning , and myself in particular , have received
our commission , and the % & */?<{ , some in one kind , and some in another , differing both in the nature of our message and the extent of our commission , according to various times and circumstances , and according to the proportion of the trust aud measure of favour God saw fit to bestow upon us ; for as % « pk fo often put for
X& pi ( rfA . & 9 and as avry generally signifies , * in proportion , the words may be literally translated thus : Of his fulness we have all received favour , in proportion to the trust committed to us . Thus , ver . 9 , the commission of Moses was limited to the giving the law , which , though the
highest trust that had been giveu to any man at that time , yet was nothing in comparison tp that impprtant trust that was to be executed by Jesus Christ , the true Word of God , that was to display all the fulness of God ' s truth and favour to . the view of the whole world / AH the numerous commentators that I consulted on this
place , I found so full of darkness and confusion , or of force and violence , that I a long time utterly despaired of ever understanding it , till one day those words oi St . John came accidentally into my mind , Rev . xix . 13 , ' He shall be called the Word of God " whence I immediately concluded that the term Logos was nothing but a name that was to be given to Christ on account of the
character he was to sustain , aud the office he was to discharge as the Messenger arid Representative of the Father . And by applying this key , every difficulty vanished ; aud upon mauy repeated and careful reviews , the whole passage appears to me so natural and easy , and in all respects so consistent with itself , that I flatter myself it must be the right . But that which h ^ s afrove all other
things confirmed me in these sentiments , is , that it not only appears congruous and agreeable to the whole tenor of the Scriptures , both of the Old and New Testament , but that it also opens the whole scheme of God ' s counsels to our view ; and enables the ' mind to apprehend
the beauty and harmony of all the Divine dispensations from the beginning of the world to the final consummation of all tilings , in the clearest light . And this is what I should now proceed to explain and lay before you . But as this will require more time aud leisure thau 1 can at present afford , I shall refer U to a future epistle .
The author dying soon after , this promised future epistle was probably Rever written , as no trace of it could be found by his family amongst the papers he left , which were all carefully examined .
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96 On the Pr ^ efn of John ' s Gospel .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1826, page 96, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2545/page/32/
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