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xi. 27, Any man

Any man-save the Son. John vi. 46, Any man-save he, &c. Matt. xvii. 8, No man-save Jesus. Mark ix. 8, (The same). John iii. 2, No man, &c. -except God be with him. v. 13, No man hath ascended, &c.-but he, &c. even the Son of man. hath no man, &c. Matt. viii. 27, What manner of man. Luke viii. 25, (The same.) John ii. 50, That one man should die. xviii. 14, (The same). Rom. v. 15, One man Jesus Christ. See also v., 17, 19. Matt. xxvii. 19, That just man. Mark xiv. 21, (The same.) Acts xvii. 31, That man whom he hath ordained. Matt. ix. 3, This man blasphemeth. xiii. 54, Whence hath this man this wisdom. v. 56, Whence hath this man, &c. xxvii. 47, This man calleth, &c. Mark ii. 7, Why doth this man speak blasphemy. vi. 2, Whence hath this man. xiv. 71, I know not this

xv. 33. Greater love

man. xv. 39, Truly this man was the Son of God. Luke vii. 39, This man, if he were a prophet. xv. 2, This man receiveth sinners. xxiii. 4, No fault in this man. v. 14, Have brought this man.— In this man. v. 18, Away with this man.

v. 41, This man hath done nothing amiss. John vi. 52, How can this man.

vii. 15,

How knoweth this man. v. 27, We know this man. v. 31, Which this man hath done. v. 46, Like this man. ix. 16, This man is not of God. v. 24, This man is a sinner. v. 33, If this man were not of God. x. 41, John spake of this man. xi. 37, Could not this man. v. 47. This man doth many miracles. xviii. 17, One of this man's disciples. v. 29, Against v. 40, Not this man. xix. 12.

this man. Let this man go. Acts v. 28, This man's blood. xiii. 38, Through this man. Heb. iii. 3, This man was counted worthy. vii. 24, This man because he continueth ever. viii. 3, That this man have, &c. x. 12, But this man after he had offered, &c.

For the appellation Son of man, which is merely a Hebrew circumlocution for A man, see the following passages.

Matt. viii. 20. ix. 6. x. 23. xi. 19. xii. 8, 32, 40. xiii. 37, 41. xvi. 13, 27, 28. xvii. 9, 12, 22. xviii. 11. xix. 28. xx. 18, 28. xxiv. 27, 30, 37, 39, 44. xxv. 13, 31. Mark ii. 10, 28. viii. 31, 38.

xxvi. 2, 24, 45, 64.

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ix. 9,

12, 31. x. 33, 34. xiii. 24, 26. xiv. 21, 41, 62.

Luke vi. 5, 22. vii. 34. ix. 22, 26, 44, 54, 58. xi. 30. xii. 8, 10, 40. xvii. 22, 24, 26, 30. xviii. 8, 31.

27, 36. xxii. 22, 48, 69.

John i. 51. iii. 13, 14.

xix. 10. xxi. xxiv. 7.

v. 27. vi. 27,

53, 62. viii. 28. xii. 23, 34. xiii. 31. Acts vii. 56. Revel. i. 13. xiv. 14.

In considering these passages, one thing should be constantly kept in mind; That none of them were written till twenty or thirty years after the resurrection of Jesus; yet is there not a single hint, given by any one of the writers, that any alteration whatever took place in the nature of Jesus; not one single hint, that his infirm humanity, was changed into a glorified humanity !!

How little short of demonstration is this? What more can be expected?

Thirty years after the resurrection of Jesus, here are one hundred and fifty pledges given by his apostles, that his nature was simply that of a man ! !

The 3d. Division proposed, was an examination of some of the passages ad

duced by Mr. Clowes, on which your opinions.

you found

As my object is not to recriminate, but to endeavour to explain, I shall make no observations on the title and advertisement prefixed to the pamphlet.

I leave it to your candour, and that of the reverend gentleman, to decide whether the constant connection of the term "Socinian,"* with that of" Unitarian," the implied censure" of the agitation of the public mind by strong language from the pulpit," and "the poison of such assertions," are expressions to be justified or disapproved.

On the same account, I take no notice of the paragraph against reason in the first letter; having already adduced quotations from Swedenborg, Mr. Hindmarsh, and Mr. Clowes, each of them making the appeal to reason.

In referring to Jesus the prophecies in Gen. iii. 15. xlix. 10. Numb. xxiv. 17,

I have not, in the title page to this Supplement, called you Swedenborgians, because I am not sure whether you yourselves adopt the appellation, and I should be sorry to designate you by a title which you disown.

19, we agree; only we object to the spiritual inference, and maintain that the assertions are positive, that he would be the "seed of a woman, arising out of Jacob," "out of Israel." (p. 11.)

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In page 12 we find the following note; "It may be proper to inform the reader, who is unacquainted with the original Hebrew, that the term Jehovah, in the original, is uniformly rendered, in our English version, by the term Lord." Lest this note should be misunderstood, I make the two following remarks.-That the Hebrew word Jehovah is not always translated Lord, but is sometimes retained. See Exod. vi. 3. Psal. lxxxiii. 18. Isa. xii. 2. xxvi. 4. And that the English word Lord, when found in the Old Testament, is not always Jehovah, in the original. See in the Psalms alone, ii. 4. viii. 1, 9. xvi. 2. xxii. 30. lxxi. 5. xcvii. 5. cx. 1. The Lord (Jehovah) said unto my Lord, (Adoni.) CXXXV. 5. cxxxvi. 3. (twice used, neither of which is Jehovah.) cxlvii. 5.*

* See Kennicott, and Walton's Polyglot.

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