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pressed ; nor does it determine Christ to any class of beings ; for if he be neither a mere creature , nor a subordinate or coordinate God , as you judge ,, surely he is God supreme , that is , God the Father ; unless you can find out another order of
beings in which he must stand . But obscurity and inconsistency is not the only objection I make to this phrase . I beg leave to observe that it appears to me evasive , though perhaps not intended to be so . The argument began with the consideration of the Logos , or Christ the Son of God before he became incarnate ( who surely was the same , and not another person , after he took flesh and was called
God-man ) ; but instead of the Logos you substitute Christ , and explain Christ as a being compounded of God and man ; or else , as a third person in whom God and man are united ; and so by making Christ two or three persons , you are enabled to reduce him to two or three classes of beings , or to leave him out of every class or out of the whole scale of being ; though I m persuaded that is not your design .
But if we keep to" the person of the Logos , the point will , I T 1 1 1 ' i n il n , judge , be sooner brought to an issue ; and we shall talk with more clear and distinct ideas , and perhaps be able to wind up the controversy in a few words * Now the Logos was either begotten ( and derived ,, for I think the latter word as clear , thouerh not so full and determinate as — — — —— » ¦» " ** — - - ¦* - *¦ » w » , m . w- * ' ¦* * . * — ^ UM& m * . jl . . * . - »_* ' -w- * -jV ^ *• *• ^* -J . -v- * " % * *~ J " \« r J * . % . » * M- WWJL JL X- » ^** ^> V . X ^/ L MM . M- » XAVW V *— ' ^^ wfc-r
the former ) or unbegotten ( and underived ) . If unbegotten and imderived ^ . he is the supreme unoriginated God and Father of all ; if begotten and derived , he is a God subordinate , inferior , and dependent ; and yet capable of all the honours the Scriptures ascribe to him ; which they ascribe to him in consistency with the higher honours ascribed to his God and Father .
I have aimed at clearness : if I-miss it , you must accept my intention where ability fails . As I would not stand obnoxious to your resentment , it is with pleasure I find it subsiding , upon the intimations I gave you concerning the copying of my first letter .
I was pleased with the ingenuousness which appeared in Mr . Srnaley , and obliged by his service , and I should judge myself deficient in ray duty , if I did not discover marks of friendship and favour lo hopeful young ministers , whenever I have opportunity of doing it . But any marks of respect I shewed were too little for the kind notice you take of it . Your service will , I hope , be acceptable at both our dissenting churches in Birmingham ; betwixt which we have , on our part , laboured for a more friendly correspondence ,, yet without success j but I believe both the ministers are clean
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460 Original Letters of Bourne and Doddridge :
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1806, page 460, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1728/page/12/
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