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after all , assert this as necessary , tho ' it may seem more probable , and I think that upon the supposition I can
argue with advantage against those of the Trinitarians who are for the proper sence , and will thence prove the praeexistence , for it can never prove such a prseexistent to be the true God . I intend to consult Mr . VVoolner , whom
I have formerly read . As to the caution against undervaluing Christ ' s humiliation as they do who ridicule it on supposition that he be not the great God , I grant it ought to be guarded against , but the Vindicator of the B—— dos not suppose his humiliation or abasement to be small ,
without praecedent glory quitted , for still his sufferings and positive miserys were not the less ; only since laying by actual glory is somewhat more than only enduring pain and shame , in the want of what there was only
an expectation of , or some title to , ( tho' not till he had finished his work , ) it is most certain that if this prece dent glory be made out , it gives a much more sensible idea of our Lord ' s
exinanition ; and if such texts as John xvii . 5 , 2 Cor . viii . 9 , do import a quitting what he once actually possessed , 'tis as clear , that without this part we have not a full view of his
abasement ; so that there will need caution on both sides , which may be better than great peremptoryness . ( Here JVIr . Manning has interlined , But 'tis not pain , &c . only , but his present glory vailed that I insist on . ) I thank God I am in part recovered , and was abroad on the Lord ' s-day last .
On the other hand , Mr . N . » sollicites me earnestly to return to the Church , as perswaded that three modes is her true sence of the Trinity ; and an inhabitation of the Deity is
her meaning in the incarnation and personal union , and that to gainsay it is captiously to seek occasions of contention , rather than to remove ' , no better than vitiligation ; thia is all
* This must have been Mr . John Norris , a learned Platonic philosopher and mystic divine , author of an " Essay towards the Theory of the Ideal or intelligible World , " intended to support the system of Malebranche against the principles t maintained in the Essay on the Human Understanding , H . R . B .
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the encouragement on that si < k ! I hope what I do shall he with a sincere aim to serve the true honour of God and Jesus Christ his Son , and if I mistake in the means , that he will ia his great mercy pardon it , and teach me better .
I am , Sincerely yours . For Mr . William Manning , at Peasenhall in Suffolk . ( Immediately under the letter Mr . Manning has written as follows ) :
I can ' t make sence of Mr . Baxter on J . vi . 38 . What means he in avoiding a local removal to construe the coming down of Christ there by art energy on the manhood ? Why , did Christ descend from heaven so in a
peculiar operation on the Man Christ Jesus ? Or if , as he saith , chap . xvi . 28 , it respects his miraculous conception or production ( soul and body he means ) , who will deny the rest of the conjunctive operation ( not of
Christ , but ) of God with him ? But on Heb . i ., that the Divine Nature is the whole hypostasis ., but not personal , cujus contrarium veruin est . I shall write no more on this subject , finding it wastful of my short time and unprofitable to me .
( Ernlyn ' s letter does not quite fill the two first pages of the paper , the rest of which is filled with Mr . Manning ' s notes , beginning with a reference to 1 Pet . iv . 19 ) . For what concerns the old creation , ( viz . of all things out of nothing , ) and style thereof given to God , I think that we can sav little more that
may tend to any useful purpose . We agree it , that all things are of God , 1 Cor . xi . 12 , Heb . ii . 10 ; even whatever is builded now by any man , chap , iii . 4 , and that God may take the character thereof to himself as the principal cause , or the origin and conser . er of all second causes . But in this we
differ : you think that nothing of being out of God , nothing made or done , that is or ever was visible , but was ur must be mediately effected by a created second cause , thro' its native communicated power , consequently that it could be no dictate of the light
of nature , but uncertain and false reasoning ( since confuted in the Gospel ) , to discern of the eternal Godhead and power , concluding it to belong to the
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334 Correspondence between Mr . Emlyn and Mr . Manning .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1826, page 334, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2549/page/18/
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