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    given him before the ages , but because the Father loved him before the ages . ** 2 . That it was not a pre-existent glory which the disciples wore to behold , or that they did behold , but € the g'lory which should fallow his suffering's , * in the diffusion , through His instrumentality , of g * ospel Blessings .

    64 3 , That the glory given to the disciples was the same glory which Gcd had given to Jesuit befin * the ' ages $ that the disciples bad not a pre-esuisient glory given them , but the glory * as of-the best-beloved of the Father , * 4 tl * 4 » grace and truth' described

    by John , by which they had oneness of will nud heart with God , and the power and spirit of miracles aud prophecy ; that therefore it was 4 iota pie existent gl <» ry of which Christ spoke in reference to them , but the same gJory of wisdom and grace and power , which the disciples had seen in him , and received from him .

    u If Christ had existed in God , or with God , before the siges , the observation , *¦ thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world * seems most unnecessary : it has only point or meaning" as referring to the everlasting counsel and fore-knowledge of God ; * yvho cnJIeih those things which be not as though they were : * Rom . iv . 17 .

    a It has been ars ^ ied that the words * glorify me , * &c . if interpreted with reference Xo the foreknowledge of God , won Id mean no more than that 4 he might be glorified still in the purpose of God . ' This is verbal quibbling without sense . * Glorify me with the glory which I had in thy decrees / is plainly , ' bestow on me the glory which thou hadst decreed to bestow . '

    44 praying to be glorified with the same glory which he had with God before , in the literal sense of glory in a p re-existent « tate of being , is totally irreconcileable , either on the Trinitarian or Arian scheme ,

    with tlve uniform tenor of Scripture , as respects the glory of Christ . This is spoken of as a glory consequent on his suffering's and obedience . L He despised the cross for the glory which was set before him . ' fc The God of our fathers hath glorified his Son

    Jesus . ' God hath highly exalted him . * It 18 an abuse of terms to say that these and similar passages mean only that the glory set before him was the same which be had before ; that in being- glorified he

    Lad only his pristine glory restored to him , and that his exaltation referred only to his human nature ; which , to a divine or superangelic being , could not be considered in the light of reward .

    * ' In the same preordinate sense , Christ is spoken of by the prophet Micab , v . 2 , c of thee [ Both-Jehem ] shall he-come forth unto me , that is to be ruler in Israel ; whose goings forth have been from ofeidy Jirpm everlasting ^ A similar figure occurs

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    in Rev . xiii . 8 , Whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world * The supposed pre-existence of the Son of God is clearly explained by Peter ; 1 p et

    i . 20 , * Who verily was fore-ordained before the foundation tof the world , but was manifest in these last times for youwho by him do believe in God that raised him tip from the dead , and gave him glory . '

    " This figure of pre-existence may be illustrated by a passage of Clemens Alexandrinus : * We Christians were before the foundation of the world ; for we then pre-existed iu God , who had decreed our future existence . ' There is here an apparent allusion to Paul , Ephes . i . 4 , According' as he hath chosen us in him , before the foundation of the world , that we should be holy . " "—Pp . 120—123 .

    The *« Examination ' concludes with a pertinent observation , in reply to the argument so learnedly maintained in Ben Mordecai ' s Letters : u These hypotheses of Christ having heen the angel who appeared in place of Jehovah , and the medium of all his revelations in the Old Testament history , are explicitly refuted hy a passage of Paulj lie !) i . 1 , ' God who at sundry times , and

    in divers manners , spake in times pasttoour fathers hy the prophets , hath in these last times spoken unto us . hy his Son . ' *'—P . 132 » Part III . contains a " Dissertation on the Doctrine of a Satisfactional or Propitiatory Atonement , " and an " Examination of the supposed Scriptural Grounds for a Vicarious

    Satisfaction , or a Propitiatory Sacrifice . " The doctrine of Satisfaction , in its full scholastic sense , is absolutely modern . Austin expressly opposes the notion of Christ having taken our guilt .

    " There wax an idea that the price paid ( ihe common scripture-term for the means of deliverance ) was paid to the evil being . Austin thought that the sin of the first man was transmitted to his posterity , and that the Infman race were delivered over to the

    Devil- from whom God , having * become incarnate in Christ , boiig-ht us by his blood ; and Prod us explains the necessity of God dying- for us , hy no angel having the pow ^ r to pay a sufficient price to Satan . This scheme , absurd as it is , is not so much to

    as that which is now generally thought a vital part of Christianity , and which cither supposes the Omnipotent and Eternal Creator of the Universe to die , that he might enable himself to forgive his own creatures , or that hia Eternal Sow died to in-

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    502 Review . —Appeal to Scripture and Tradition .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1819, page 502, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1775/page/42/