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    been equally natural for the apostle to have given the same de ~ tail , had his creed coincided with that of his expositor . We may be assured , therefore , that his judgment was different , Paul knew of no proper Creator but the eternal God .

    In the figurative language of scripture , the expressions , hea ^ veil and tarth s sometimes denote civil distinctions , such as high and low , governors and governed ; Joel ii . IO . Hag . ii . 6 , 7- Acts ii . 19 . Rev . vi , 12—15 . Sometimes they signify

    moral distinctions * such as Jew and Gentile , a state of privi- » lege or the contrary , Matt . xi . 13 . Eph . i . 2 . Ii . 14 , To create , is to introduce a new state of being , an < 2 order of things into the civil or moral world , Isa , xliii . 1 . lxiii . 19 . The state

    into which Jews and heathens were introduced by the profession of Christianity is called a new creation . Eph . ii . 10 . Col , iii * 10 . Christ the image * or representative of the invisible God ^

    has been the instrument of divine goodness 111 accomplishing this new creation ? and is himself the chief and the first born , being the first perso p who was raised from the dead to an immortal life ^ %

    The distinction of thrones , dominions , Sec . implies nothing more than that the dipensation introduced by Christ should be productive of great changes among persons of every rank in life , and in every description of society . See upon this subject Di . Priestley ' s answer to Dr . Price , p . 117 * and Mr . Tyrwhitt ' s excellent Essay on the creation of all things by Jesus Christ .

    v Philip ii . 5—8 . $ * Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesu $ , who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God : but made himself of no reputation , and took upon him the form of a servant , and was made in the likeness of men , and being found in fashion like a man , he humbled himself and became obedient unto death , even the death of the cross . ' -

    This is the last passage which my friend produces in defence of his system , and indeed if the public version is to be taken as * Of a certain person , \ yho now makes a very considerable figure in the wprld , it may be said with truth , so far as the civil state of the continent of Europe is concerned , that he is the creator of all these new distinctions , high and low , whether thrones , or dominions , or principalities , or powers , all these things are made by him * and for him , and ' he is before them all , takes precedence both in time and dignity , and by him do all these things consist . Yet who would infer from such

    language as this , that the present ruler of France , is a being of superior order to mankind , much less that he is the maker of the world ? The language which is true of Buonaparte in a civil sense , is applicable to Jesus Christ in a moral view ™ but it no more implies prc-exktence , or proper creative power in one case , than in the other .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1807, page 593, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2386/page/29/