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    ORIGINAL LETTERS OF THE REV . S * BOtJRlSJE , OF BIRMINGHAM ^ AND THE REV . DR * DODDRIDCE . NO . IV . To the Kev * Dr . DoddridgEj , rev . sir , May 1 % 42 > - The manner and strain of your last letter is respectful beyond & 1 I pretence of merit , and would prevent my proceeding in the

    argumentative part of it any farther , if I had any ground to suspect it would in the least tend to diminish your esteem or abate your friendship . But I am persuaded an honesty disinterested , and fair inquiry after sacred truth s and calm debates about it , in order to a clearer discovery of it $ cannot be unacceptable to a man of your character .

    However I shall briefly touch on only two paragraphs in your letter , which afford ground of farther arguing . *—You profess ( par . 3 . ) not to see any inconsistency between your Paraphrase and your Notes ; a point I had stated in my first letter * ancj . with such brevity and clearness that I thought you would see

    what I myself could not help seeing ; in regard your whole Paraphrase strongly implies and expresses the subordination of the Logos , or his inferiority to the Father j but in your Notes ? you plainly disclaim all that supposed and expressed inferiority or subordination . Now either the Logos was inferior and sub * -

    ordinate to the Father ^ according to your Paraphrase or was not inferior , according to your Notes . The fear you express ( par . 4 . ) of derogating from those di » vine honours which the Scriptures ascribe to Christ is just and pious : but the same principle ought to make us more fear derogating from those divine honours the Scriptures ascribe

    to God the Father ; amongst which are , the honours of absolute supreme government—of begetting his only begotten son——of constituting him guardian of the Jewish nation—of appointing him man ' s redeemer , sending him oh the great errand , &c-&c . : ail which , and a hundred other arguments _ , demonstrate

    the inferiority or subordination of the Son to the Father ; and if he was subordinate ( or was begotten , that is , any way derived , though incomprehensible ) before his incarnation , he must continue inferior or subordinate after his incarnation , though after that he is invested with all power on heaven and e&rtbu The phrase you now adopt , of cc Christ ' s being a glorious person , in whom God and man are united / ' in order to

    illustrate the former unintelligible passage , appears to me far from that clearness in which the doctrine is capable of being ex ~

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1806, page 459, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1728/page/11/