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    Magee knows it , that it is never said of Jesus Christ , that he made heaven and earth , or that'he created the world . And it is also a

    fact , that Jesus Christ is never spoken of as the creator of substances , but merely of modes and rank > and states of things . Now , how does Dr . Magee re-1

    pel thesearguments ? Why , by the silly observation , that in " the usual Sociman refutations , creating does not mean creating , and that worlds are dispensations , " &c . So that , according to this new doctrine of the Dublin

    Professor , the word creating has but one signification , and that signification is , bringing a being into

    exit never bears in the New Testament . Dr . Magee may sneer at this remark , but he cannot contradict it . 7 th , Heb . i . 10 . Many orthodox expositors interpret thcs ° words as addressed to God , and not to Christ , bth , Heb . iii 4 . is nothing to the purpose . 9 th , Rev . iii . 14 , is a text of doubtful meaning and of doubtful authority .

    These are all the passages of the New Testament which are or can be alleged in favour of a doctrine which , had it been true , would have been so extraordinary , so astonishing , so overwhelming , that the writings of the apostles and evangelists , would have been filled with it from one end to the other , and the creation of the world would have been

    * s distinctly ascribed to Christ as it now is , by those who believe that doctrine . Instead of which , it is only mentioned incidentally , ambiguously , and even coidl } , as an ordinary fact , which occa

    sioned no kind of surprise , and which -Was , in no considerable degree , strange or unexpected . Is it possible , is it consistent wit ii the known principles ofhu-* nan nature , that a discovery so wonder-* i * l should be received with so little

    • motion ? What are all the arguments from criticism upon Greek particles , in comparison with such a fact as this ? See a Calm Inquiry into the Scripture ^ octr ine concerning the Person of Chritt , frart uficct , « .

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    istence . Upon this principle , when the kins : is said to create a peer , you mean that he brought a peer into existence ! It is in vain

    to plead that nothing more is intended , than that the sovereign raised a man from the rank of a commoner to that of a peer . —Impossible , says our learned Doctor

    for at that rate " creating does not mean creating : ' '' you can only mean , that the king brought a peer into being out of nothing , for the word will bear no other sense

    Such is the reasoning to which this learned theolo ^ ue condescends to stoop , to repel the arguments of those he calls Socinians . " Interceding does not mean interceding * — " creating does- not mean creting !"—What opinion must he

    entertain of the understandings of his readers , to think that they could be imposed upon by such miserable sophistry ? And what opinion must an intelligent reader form of a writer who could himself

    be deceived , or who could attempt to delude others , by so poor an evasion ? You have now , my Christian friends , a reply to this vaunted publication , which was expected

    by its well . meaning editors to cut up Unitarianism by the roots Rear ? , * examine , deliberate and judge . If the Lord be God , serve him ; but if Baal , then serve him . Consider what I say , and the Lord give you understanding in all things .

    I am , my Christian Friends , Your faithful Servant , A Calm Inquirer after Revealed Truth . « v

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    Reply to Dr . Magee . * — To the Inquirers after Christian Truth . SOt

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1813, page 501, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2431/page/13/