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    t >« which , he bestowed bis peculiar favour , yet they who were his own received him not . But as many as received him , these he authorized to be ions of God , to them that practically believe on his name ; who were born , not of bloody not of the will of the flesh , nor of the will of man , but of God , And the Word ( viz . of Divine Truth ) was made flesh , or became flesh ,

    and tabernacled among us , and we beheld the glory thereof , the glory truly of the only-begotten ( i . e . best-beloved ) of the Father , full of grace and truth , John bare witness concerning him , &c ., i . e . the only-begotten . Ver . 17 . The law was given by Moses , but grace and truth , came by Jesus Christ . This term is almost interchangeable with the term Aoyos , Word , of which many passages

    might be urged in ' proof ; take our Lord ' s words in the prayer , John xvii . 17 : " Sanctify them by thy truth , o Xoyc <; 6 < ro $ aXy&eia £$ - * thy word is truth . *• Also , Acts xiv . 3 , xx . 32 . With regard to the 14 th verse , I am scarcely sensible myself of the feeling of harshness which belongs to every other

    interpretation , whether , with the A thanasian , we interpret it of the actual incarnation of one of the persons of the Godhead in the man Jesus , or with some Unitarians , of Wisdom becoming flesh , or with Mr . Cappe , translate , Neverthe - less the word was a mortal man . Nothing is more common in the New Testament than such phrases as , the ward is

    in you ; let the word of Christ dwell in you richly ; Christians are the temples of the Holy Spirit ; the Father is said to be in Christ ; the spirit of truth was to dwell with the disciples , and to be in them . cc If any oue love me , " saith Christ , * " he will observe my word ,

    ( tov ? . oyov ftov , ) and the Father will love him , and we will come to him , and make our abode" with him . He that loveth me not , keepeth not my sayings ; yet the word (< $ Xoyofi which ye hear , is not mine , but it is ( the word ) oi the Father who sent me . " Thus , f " the word of God abideth in believers . " These

    instances seem to me very little to fall short of the phrase , the Word ( of Divine truth ) became flesh , or was embodied in human form . J Sir Isaac Newton , that sagacious Christian , wondered at «• the

    • John xiv . 23 . + 1 John ii . 4 . X " The word of God was communicated by human organs . " R . Wright on the Humanity of Christ , p . IS fed . 181 i ) .

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    incarnation , as it is commonly understood , " implying his belief that it wan true in an important sense , though not in the common gross one . The time when tbe Word was made

    flesh , I have no doubt , was the period when our Saviour was invested with a divine commission , and the gospel message was in trusted to him . This was not till the period of his baptism by John . Then he was announced as the

    Son of Ood ; and Christ , in all probability , alludes to that event ( John v . 37 ) : " The father who hath sent me , hath himself borne witness of me . Have you never heard his voice , nor seen his (* ' $££ ) visible manifestation : and have

    you not his word (\ oycv ) remaining among you , that whom he hath sent ye believe not ? ' * See a note on this passage by Mr . Turner , of Wakefield , in . Priestley ' s Harmony , quoted by Principal Campbell .

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    Co-operation . Letter I . To the Editor . Sir , I propose to address to yon three letters ou the subject of Practical Cooperation . In the first , I shall explain

    the meaning of the term . In the second , 1 shall point out how the principled might be acted upon by Unitarian societies . In the third , 1 snail endeavour to shew why Unitarianism , to be consi&teut , should be more favourable to the success of co-operatiou , than any other religious persuasion .

    The merits of the subject depend upon the success of a Co-operative Society established in West Street , Brighton , about the mouth of July , 1 & 27 . It consists almost entirely of workmen , whose object ia to accumulate a common capital , upon which they may employ their members to work for the Society as they

    would work for an ordinary master . The Society will thus get the profit upon their work . The capital of the Society is formed , at first , by a weekly subscription , which is not i a vested iu a Savings ' Bank , as in the case of Be neat Societies , but , first , in trade , in purchasing and retailing to the members , or to others , the common necessaries of life . Thus

    the capital has two sources of increase , the weekly subscription aud the profit on the business . The business is managed by an agent , a member of the Society , under the superintendence of a

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    Miscellaneous Correspondence . 123

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1829, page 123, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2569/page/51/