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    wording the sayings of Christ in forty instances , in his teaching and answers on his trial , will not lay the stress of tin article of faith introduced on the etymon of a Greek word , when ihe same thiner , too , by the same writer , is reported in diverse words , and that not of all one common signification .

    I am not positive in all this nor for the Sofinian notion of these text ? , tho if I were certain of a local descent meant , I should agree with them . From Christ ' s 12 th year to his 30 th , we have no account of his doings or what he might meet with . When you say that he was the Son of Man then when he spake these words , and perhaps as much as any man is the son of his mother , tho' it reaches not any objection still , yet if so ( as I take it for true ) , then he

    preexisted not , or else all souls do , touching which I am not so certain as some other matters , tho' I take the contrary to be the most likely . I can ' t but think how John ' s Gospel alone in several hands is urged pro and con , and why Christ should 40 times so signalize himself bv the title

    of Son of Man . Then for the exinanition of Christ you speak well , and I would be wary on the other hand . I am drowned in the search into and comprehension of what is certainly revealed of it , and-of his glory following , 1 Pet . i .

    vtd ' y ? aleither would I overlook his glory berce teknv , ( tho" poor in the world as tJie- ' . ' ff loi ^ of others , James ii . 5 , 2 € or / vi . 10 , 2 Peter i . 17 , Heb . i . 3 , &c ., ) while voluntarily vailed by him , John viii . 50 ; not quite , Luke xiiL 17 . But if what you infer more from a single dubious text be certain , I should give instance of his loss in that , that on your supposition is only plainly revealed thereof , viz . his suffocation in the womb and loss of his

    reason so long , and so gradual recovery to the use of it , and growth in wisdom , &c . 1 content myself to hold fast IVlatt . xvi . 1 (> , but of what we may still differ in I shall write no more . For what Mr . N . sollicits men to , " tis a sham and all be has said to it . *

    * 1 suppose th <> work here referred to tttust be Mr . Nonis ' a Account of Reason and Faith in relation to the Mysteries of Christianity . H . H . H .

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    The Dean counts of it as of the sis - interested tract , that * tis a Sammian pamphlet he calls it , but perfidiously done by some to gain on others , to give credit to theiu in their prevarication to save their titles and

    emoluments . The real Trinitarians of the Dean ' s followers ( almost all England ) hoot at it as perfect nonsense . I doubt that Mr . N . can ' t persuade you that the Trinity , Matt , xxviii . 19 , the same with 2 Cor . xiii . 14 , &c . '

    are modes of God only . When many men ' s eyes began to be opened , those ( as the schools before ) put a blind upon them to solve the matter and hold their places void of danger , in subscribing to what they must do , and thinking otherwise than the terms

    ever meant . One thing is , there is not one of an hundred thousand with us know any thing of what they say , nor themselves verv well if at all .

    Theirs is the last support to the real Trinitarian cause , by courting men to the Church prayers and offices to weaken the Unitarians , that no fears be left to them nor place to strengthen them . Now the writers have done

    with it , and the common doctrine goes for currant . I might , were it not too long , tell you something of what some time ago caused me some diversion against my inclination . Mr . has an additional character after his funeral

    sermon for IVJr . J . wherein as he had before made the belief with him of the Trinity to be the first test of entering into our Lord ' s joy , ( Parkhurst printed it , ) he gives that as a part of his encomium , that his deep

    hatred of Sociniamsm was such that the infection of some of bis parish hastened his end through tenderness for their souls . I believe it to be so false an information that it moved me to write to him to unfound it . Tho ' JVlr . J . ' s own sermons on the decease

    of some few of them , and praise of them therein , without any reflexion , was too open a confutation . But withall contriving a way that he could not easily avoid the reading when he saw whence it came . I took occasion

    not only to vindicate their opinions and to answer to his weak arguings against them , but , tho' with tenderness otherwise , sharply to reflect upon what he had printed , wherein he crys up the Littany and lyturgie forms as

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    336 Correspondence between Mr . Emlyn and Mr . Manning .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1826, page 336, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2549/page/20/