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TO THE CHRISTIAN PUBLIC.
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We cannot allow much weight to the phrase " for ever,"
as establishing literally the eternal nature of the power of
the Son, this phrase being often found metaphorically
applied in the Scriptures to other created', beings : as
Proverbs , ch. xxix. ver. 14 : " The king that faithfully
judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for
ever." Deut. ch. iv. ver. 40 : " And that thou mayest
prolong thy days in the earth, which the Lord thy God
giveth thee, for ever." Similar to this is the remarkable
expression of Jesus to Mary after his resurection, and
therefore, at a time when no design can be conceived to
have existed that could have been advanced by his any
longer withholding the knowledge of his true nature, if
anything remained unrevealed during the previous period
of his mission on earth. John, ch. xx. ver. 17 : 11 Go to
my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my
Father and your Father, and to my God and your God."
After a slight attention to the terms Lord and God
being often applied to men in the sacred writings, can
any weight be allowed to the exclamation of the astonished
disciple, John, ch. xx. ver. 28 : " My Lord and my God ;"
especially as the Apostle who relates the circumstance
within a few verses concludes by saying, ver. 31, "These
are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ,,
the Son of God;" but no where desires the readers of his
Gospel to believe that Jesus is God ? Does not common
sense point out the inferiority and subordination of a
being, though called God, to one who is at the same time
declared to be his God, his father, his sanctifier, and his
promoter to the state of exaltation.
The passage John ch. i. ver. 1 : " The Word was
God, and the Word was with God," which contains the
HQ'
We cannot allow much weight to the phrase " for ever,"
as establishing literally the eternal nature of the power of
the Son, this phrase being often found metaphorically
applied in the Scriptures to other created', beings : as
Proverbs , ch. xxix. ver. 14 : " The king that faithfully
judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for
ever." Deut. ch. iv. ver. 40 : " And that thou mayest
prolong thy days in the earth, which the Lord thy God
giveth thee, for ever." Similar to this is the remarkable
expression of Jesus to Mary after his resurection, and
therefore, at a time when no design can be conceived to
have existed that could have been advanced by his any
longer withholding the knowledge of his true nature, if
anything remained unrevealed during the previous period
of his mission on earth. John, ch. xx. ver. 17 : 11 Go to
my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my
Father and your Father, and to my God and your God."
After a slight attention to the terms Lord and God
being often applied to men in the sacred writings, can
any weight be allowed to the exclamation of the astonished
disciple, John, ch. xx. ver. 28 : " My Lord and my God ;"
especially as the Apostle who relates the circumstance
within a few verses concludes by saying, ver. 31, "These
are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ,,
the Son of God;" but no where desires the readers of his
Gospel to believe that Jesus is God ? Does not common
sense point out the inferiority and subordination of a
being, though called God, to one who is at the same time
declared to be his God, his father, his sanctifier, and his
promoter to the state of exaltation.
The passage John ch. i. ver. 1 : " The Word was
God, and the Word was with God," which contains the