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    Why dries the ^ se lec t p * feaehef style such af declaration , a dictvnj ? This is not handsomely or correctly said . Scriptural critics * of the greatest name , have been divided in sentiment

    concerning the writer of the letter ; though they are agreed hi respect of its high antiquity . Nor has the subject any relation to Trinitarianism or Antitrinitarianism , as such * Lardner endeavoured to shew that the Epistle to the Hebrews was written by Paul ; while */ . Z > . Mickaetis ' arrives at the

    contrary deduction ; In Heb . i . 1 Sic ., Dr . Spry beholds proofs of th < e deity of Jesus Christ . He , for example , informs us , ( pp . 25 , 26 , ) that €€ tb the Hebrews such language as ' God in these last days hath spoken unto us by his Son ; whom he hath appointed heir of all things ; by wh 6 ai also he made the worlds / was

    highiy significant . " What evidence , however , can this gentleno an produce in support of his assertion €€ Him " [ the Messiah ] " they believed to be made heir of all things * by virtue of an especial covenant entered into between him and the Father from

    eternity" I If assy phrases are * f significant" of inferiorityt ahd dependence , they are such as we read in the clause , * ' whom he hath anointed heie ! of all things /* The prophetic Psalm * to which Dr . Spry has referred , describes what is future , not what is

    past ; the extension' of the Messiah ' s kingdom , not his personal nature and dignity ; a request and a grant , not a eovfeii&nt : and when it is said , " The Fathier loveth the Sorf and hath given all things into his 1 hand , ' * + all thing's must evidently be understood as meaning ail mankind , both Jews and

    Heathens ; the language being well illustrated by other passages . cc worlds , " now spoken of , are not thfc material worlds , but the ages or dispensation ^ ( res octavacq ^ and emphatically , the Christian dispensation .

    The text has been admirably explained by the late amiable and judicious author of " Essays on the Language of Scripture . " £ It is the Nicelie Creed which supplies Dr . Spry , as it' had supplied

    * Psalm ii . t John v : 20 Mhtt . xi . 27 . 1 Thei Bev . Johh SlmpSon i N (>; VIII .

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    Bishop Bull , ( pp , 27 , M& with a ke $ to th ^ j clauses , " the brightness of his glory , and the express image of Iu 3 per 3 ^> n . 5 > So convinced , indeed , was

    the learned and worthy prelate of the identity of the doctrine of his favourite symbol and of the doctrine of the words now Jcifed , that he pronounces a somewhat harsh censure on those

    who are unable to embrace his interpretation . He and the select preacher , after him , far from admitting that we see the matter with different eyes than theirsj , or through another medium thaft their own , deny that tte see it atf all : they reproach us with having the

    " dim curtain' * of " the blind mple *^* Who then are they that make " aa insinuating appeal to the pride of human intellect , " and , as serves their purpose , speak now of the mental

    obstuseness , and now of t ) xt ingenuity and talents of heretics . -, who are they that , on some occasions , aseribe to u » " the lynx ' s beam /' ' a ; nd , on : others , charge us With ignorance 3 iid imbecility ?

    The image of a person mu&t always ^ be distinct from the original : nor caa > the / itfiagfe of the invisible , &od be himself God . Why , then , is this appellation bestowed on Jesus Christ

    Because he received an iinmeasurable communication of Divine knowledge , wisdond and power ; because his virtues eminently approached the moral perfections of the D £ ity \ because he revealed the will of heaven , not to

    one nation alone , but to the whole race of man ; because he wa $ invested with signal . authority and privileges ; and , finally , inasmuch as he is the former and head of the new creation ; According to Dr . Spry , the Apostle has proclaimed Jesus Christ to be one in substance with the Father . Such

    is the select preacher ' s assertion : idr . proofs of tlie justness of it we search in vain . —P . 29 . This gentleman next puts the supposition that Christ was only a frail

    and mortal being , like ourselves ; and upon his assumed and inaccurate po $ ~ tnlatum he argiies to the supposed pelilousness of the Trinitarian faith * and to the improbability that

    Trinitfo-* ^ * "Jam per a ttaVyct < rfJLa k . r . X . * ? * * * talpa ciBcior est qut n < m vffitefV " See the quotation in Dr . S ^ y ' s note , (^ , ) J > . 28 . ' % . r

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    8 pr& * Tun > Sirm&m he / ore the University af Oaf / ord . 297

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1825, page 297, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2536/page/41/