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rable occasion , when heaven bore its resplendent witness to the divine mission of Jesus .. He had seeir ^ the bright cloud n vev $ h ado wing jQkfis t ? •'—?• •? •«* . bis face shitting , as < he , suii —«* f his raiment white as the light . " He had heard the voice issuing from this heaveuly splendour , * * This is my belored 'Son , * In
whom I am well pleased / ' This- sa > blime . « eene .. rtiust -hare made a deep im > pression upon his mindj and must ba « e been presented at all times vividly to his thoughts . It roust have been an irresistible # roof * o \ &ka ^ as well as to his favoured associates / on . the occasion , that € f they l had not followed cunningly devised ; fables /* And he must have been
filled with it , more particularly , when he eotered upon that j-ecord ( John xx . 31 ) which was writ tec that Christians might believe that-Jesus is the Christ , the Son of God * and that believing they might have life ^ through his name . When , therefore , he says , " We beheld his glory ,
the glory as of the only begotten of the Father / ' he refers , I believe , to the glory which he , and Peter , and James , saw encircling Jesus at his transfigurationthat glory which proceeded from Ood the Father , who said , «* This is my beloved Son , hi whom I am well pleased . " This strengthens and confirms my argument ; foj ! Gad the Father is thus identified
with } £ h& / Wo * d ; we . see the force and propriety of the expression , " the glory as \ of the «** iy begotten of the Father ;" and the Son is * clearly distinguished from the iWwdj ? from - iwhom / * he received honour and glory , when there came such ft voice to him from the excellent glory . f *; i ¦ ¦)• : . - .: , , . ••¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦
In the preceding remarks we have , I think , one clear proof of distinction between Jesus Christ and the Word ; for the glory of the Word is not the glory of Jesus Christ ; consequently , Jesus Christ is noJvthe ^ WortL < Another , I feel persuaded , may be made out by a comparison of the 14 th and lfith ^ verfees . For the sake of
simplicity I will put them together , though one has already been adduced . They run thus : " And the Word was made fleah , and dwelt among us , ( and we beheld his glory , the glory as of the only begotten of the Father , ) full of grace and truths * — + " For the law was given dp Moses , but grace and truth came dp Jesus Christ . " In the first of these passages grace and truth are said to reside in the _ _ _ ^ ----- - - — ¦
* Matt . xvii . 1— -9 ; Mark ix . 2—9 ; and Luke ix . 28—36 .
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Word ; for the Evangelist say **^ that the Word was full of them . * 'AM ft * -ihe second ; grace" m& fttitfi tke fepdl& ' ii of ^ as cottting ty J * u ^ OTrfetf , / X iii ° ^ He ^* artie way , or on < £ he ^ ajdae 1 f ) pfi netpl& , Hii the laW wasr givetf dp ^ ds&i . ' A-p ^^ el is here drawn 1 between the tofr m ^^ ia ^ oW
of the old and hew dbpehsatibrtS ^ ey were not the source *? ot these ^ df § pcft « at ion s , but the * ' mediums * thi * otfgfr wB ieft they were commonicated tfr raanftind . And ft it must be admitted lhat the iite ± dmm is distinct frdin the sottrcey J theii must ifc also be Admitted that Jesus
Christ is distinct from the Word ; for * the Word \ s the source of grace aiid truth , while Jesus Christ is the medium through which the ^ flow to the lmmart race : they came bg 1 iim , as the law came by Mo $ es . And fttrtherv all Christians admit that grtioi and truth came from God the Father , Who M sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world /* who " sent him forth in the fulness of
time , * who sent hfiro to bless us /* -to " preach the acceptsble yeai' of tne-Lord / ' and who "so loved the world that he gave his ^ only begotten Stwi'thait ' we might not perish , but have'everlagtJ ing life . " God the Fathet ; th ^ tt ; vis ; again identified with the Wordy and ^ e distinction between Jesus Christ and ; the Word is more apparent . For , stirelyi the sent must be distinct from the sender —the Son from the Father .
Thus we have two clear instances of distinction between Jesus Christ and the Word , drawn immediately from the connexion in which the Evangelist mentions them in this much-controverted chapter ; and , if so , does not the Trinitarian argument for the Deity of Christy on the supposition of his being the Word , consequently fail in its proof ? ; I know there is the doctrine of the two natures to evade all this . But befone I admit its force , or bow to its authority , I must have the identical proposi * tion from the JVord of dod . N . C .
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Miscellaneous Correspondence . 8 $ 5
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Unitarian Association Anniversary ! To the Editor . Sin , Oct . 16 , 1829 . With much gratification have I from mouth to month perused those papers which have lately appeared in the Repository under the title of the *< Watchman . ' Theboldnes of reproof * strength of argument , acuteness of wit , and vigour and strength ' of language , so conspicuous in every one of t , hese papers .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1829, page 805, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2578/page/61/
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