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FINAL APPEAL
could he, in common with all other creatures, attribute
his own actions to the will of the Supreme Disposer of
all the events of the universe ?
The Editor next quotes a part of Heb. i. 12, "Thou
art the same." This I have fully noticed another oplace.
The Editor disapproves highly of my assertion, in the
Second Appeal, ''Christ was vested with glory from the
beginning of the world." I therefore beg to quote one
or two scriptural passages, which, I hope, will justify
that assertion. 1 John ii. 13 : "I write unto you, fathers,
because ye have known him that is from the beginning."
Rev. iii. 14 : "These things saith the Amen,—the begin-
ning of the creation of God.''
The Editor insinuates, that I have contradicted myself
by "ridiculing the idea of Christ's having two natures,"
after I had declared that Christ " lived with God before
the creation of the world," and that "it would have been
idle to have informed them, (the Jews,) that, in his mere
corporeal nature, Jesus was inferior to his Maker, and
it must, therefore, have been his spiritual nature, of which
he here avowed his inferiority to God." I cannot perceive
what contradiction there is in the assertion, that Christ
lived in the divine purpose and decree*
* On John xvii. 5. He had it (the same glory) with the
Father before the world was, that is, in the Father's purpose and
decree. In the language of scripture, what God determines to
bring to pass, is represented as actually accomplished ; thus,
the dead are represented as living, Luke xx. 36—38. Believers
are spoken of as already glorified, Rom. viii. 29, 30. Things
that are not, are called as though they were, Rom. iv. 17.
And in verse 12 of this chapter, Judas is said to be destroyed,
though he was then living, and actually bargaining with the
priests and rulers to betray his Master. See also verse 10 ; Eph.
i. 4 ; 2 Tim. i. 9 ; Rev. xiii: 8 ; Heb. x. 34. (Improved
Version.)
FINAL APPEAL
could he, in common with all other creatures, attribute
his own actions to the will of the Supreme Disposer of
all the events of the universe ?
The Editor next quotes a part of Heb. i. 12, "Thou
art the same." This I have fully noticed another oplace.
The Editor disapproves highly of my assertion, in the
Second Appeal, ''Christ was vested with glory from the
beginning of the world." I therefore beg to quote one
or two scriptural passages, which, I hope, will justify
that assertion. 1 John ii. 13 : "I write unto you, fathers,
because ye have known him that is from the beginning."
Rev. iii. 14 : "These things saith the Amen,—the begin-
ning of the creation of God.''
The Editor insinuates, that I have contradicted myself
by "ridiculing the idea of Christ's having two natures,"
after I had declared that Christ " lived with God before
the creation of the world," and that "it would have been
idle to have informed them, (the Jews,) that, in his mere
corporeal nature, Jesus was inferior to his Maker, and
it must, therefore, have been his spiritual nature, of which
he here avowed his inferiority to God." I cannot perceive
what contradiction there is in the assertion, that Christ
lived in the divine purpose and decree*
* On John xvii. 5. He had it (the same glory) with the
Father before the world was, that is, in the Father's purpose and
decree. In the language of scripture, what God determines to
bring to pass, is represented as actually accomplished ; thus,
the dead are represented as living, Luke xx. 36—38. Believers
are spoken of as already glorified, Rom. viii. 29, 30. Things
that are not, are called as though they were, Rom. iv. 17.
And in verse 12 of this chapter, Judas is said to be destroyed,
though he was then living, and actually bargaining with the
priests and rulers to betray his Master. See also verse 10 ; Eph.
i. 4 ; 2 Tim. i. 9 ; Rev. xiii: 8 ; Heb. x. 34. (Improved
Version.)