(2) THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST,

Our Lord received all his instructions from Almighty God 257, 341, 342, 344,
347, 437, 572.

but as the Messenger

Delivered all his doctrines and precepts, not in his own name,
and Prophet of God, the anointed and inspired of the Father
260, 296, 338, 365-6, 378.

– I say; the language of a divine messenger - 247.

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He taught them as one having authority; authority from God to

deliver his message.

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249.

Luke vi. 24. Woe unto you.
teacher-297.

"Alas for you!" the warning of a prophet or

(3) THE MIRACLES OF CHrist.

The subjects cured by Jesus, and others who witnessed his miracles, attributed
the power displayed, to God as the original author 251, 252, 255, 296, 298,
299, 301, 322, 350, 359, 390.

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Christ performed miracles, and indeed all his works while he was on earth, not as
Almighty God, but as a prophet; namely, by the assistance of the Father, or
by the spirit and power with which he was endowed-61, 261, 265, 299, 319,
332-3, 337, 338, 339, 344, 357-8, 360, 362, 364, 365-6, 368, 378, 379, 390,
392, 394, 402, 514.

Matt. viii. 3. I will, interpreted as indicating the divine mission of Jesus - 250.
Matt. viii. 26, 27. He rebuked the winds and the sea, by supernatural power
power received from God.

252.

(4) OTHER WORKS OF CHRIST.

Christ forgave sins, not as an eternal and omnipotent being, but as the agent, the
Prophet, and Son of God. The forgiveness of sins, in the Jewish sense of
the expression, equivalent to the removal of disorders, not to that of future
punishment 253-5, 298-9, 382-3.

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Christ commissioned the apostles to preach the gospel, and imparted the necessary
power, by the authority which he had received from God—382, 387, 390,
391, 402.

The salvation of men effected, and blessings imparted, by Christ, as the agent and
representative of God. 62, 339, 375, 433, 447, 451-2, 475, 508, 510, 518,
520, 533, 535-6, 551, 578.

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The Father, the primary cause of Christ's resurrection; our Lord raised himself
by the power which he had received. Probably, however, in John ii. 19-21;
x. 17, 18, he meant merely to declare that his life would be resumed-320, 352,
comp. 206.

God the Father the efficient cause of Christ's ascension and glory. Our Lord's
regal and ecclesiastical authority, as the King and Head of his church, not
absolutely supreme. Christ, as conducting his mediatorial kingdom, inferior
to the Sovereign of the universe-61, 173, 271, 276, 390-1, 394, 401, 404,
414, 444, 457, 464, 485, 521, 525-6, 531-2, 579-80.

Christ will raise the dead by the power with which he is invested by the Father-
330, 336, 394, 486,

Christ, as man, furnished by the Father with divine power and authority to
judge the world—333-4, 336, 406, 428, 580.

11. Christ not possessing Two Natures.

The Holy Scripture does not expressly assert that Christ is very God and very
man in one and the same person — 51, 54.

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The hypostatical union not proved by the miraculous conception of Jesus Christ-
232-3, 291.

Gen. iv. 1. — A man Jehovah; a rendering harsh and forced, whimsical and extra-
vagant 104-6.

2 Sam, vii. 19. 1 Chron. xvii. 17. - Applied to David. A man who is Lord
God: beware, O tyro, how you thus interpret - 149, 153.

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Ps. Ixxxvii. 5. This and that man. No reference liere made to a double nature
in the person of Christ - 171.

Mic. v.2. His goings-forth. To interpret this as implying the union of a divine
with a human nature, involves an absurdity

218.

Zech. xiii. 7. The man, my fellow. Judas Maccabeus; or, the teachers of God's
people - 225-6.
John xiv. 28. - Absurd to suppose, that Jesus speaks sometimes as God, and
sometimes as man 370.

12. Christ not Equal to the Father.

Our Lord received his being and perfections from the Father-27, 35, 58–62,

369-71.

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Ps. ii. S.-
Zech. xiii. 7.

· Ask of me, and I shall give. Not "Demand of me," &c. — 161.
My fellow; a mistranslation.

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John v. 18.- Making himself equal with God.

Equality not implied — 225-7.

Not the words of the evangelist,

but the accusation of his enemies, rebutted by Jesus when he declared that the
Son could do nothing of himself — 331-2.

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John v. 19. These also doth the Son likewise, similarly-333.
John v. 23. Honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. The Greek work
rendered "even as " variously interpreted; but not signifying equality —334.
John xvi. 15. - All things that the Father hath are mine. Spoken as Teacher
and Mediator, not as God 373.

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John xvii. 24. I will; meaning, "I would, desire, pray." The argument for
equality, an argument of straw

380-1.

Phil. ii. 6. Thought it not robbery to be equal with God; a false rendering.
The Unitarian interpretation, that of a vast majority of the most learned critics
and commentators 478-81.

13. Christ not Identical with the Father

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Essence as God.

does not possess the same

The consubstantiality of the Son with the Father not clearly set forth in Scripture,
and cannot be determined without the authority of the church — 54.

Zech. xii. 10, comp. John xix. 37.---They shall look on me whom they have pierced ;
a false reading. If genuine, interpreted, "God pierced through the wounds of
bis Son."-223-4, 381-2.

John viii. 24, 28, 58. — I am.

erroneous -345, 346, 349.

To interpret this of Christ's divine essence, very

John x. 30; xvii. 9-11, 22, 23.—I and the Father are one, not in nature, but in
power or consent. A moral, not an essential union-353-6, 379-80.

John xiv. 9, 10, 11. He that hath seen me hath seen the Father. Not a truly
divine identity, but a moral unity or resemblance

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Rom. i. 4. The spirit of holiness; the divine power by which Christ was sanc-
tified; not his divine nature

1 Cor. xv. 45.-
445, 540.

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A quickening spirit, not referring to Christ's divine essence

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2 Cor. iv. 4. Col. i. 15. Heb. i. 3.- The image of the invisible God, &c.; phrases
having a moral signification, not mystical or metaphysical — 450-1, 487-9, 523-5.
Phil. ii. 6. — The form of God, not signifying the nature of the Deity-476-8.
Col. ii. 9. In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. Interpreted of
the fulness of the gifts which Christ received from God, or of his complete know-
ledge of the divine will; or of Christianity itself as opposed to Judaism - 500-2,
comp. 467-8, 496.

1 John v. 7.- The Word one with the Father. By the most learned commentators
interpreted, not of essence, but of consent 559-61.

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14. Christ not an Object of Religious Worship.

The practice of many Trinitarians to worship God, without any reference to a
distinction of persons, to worship the Father alone, or at least but seldom to
address the Son in prayer 40-1, 63-7, 416.

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Christ prayed only to the Father

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63, 273, 274, 297, 376, 538.

No two ideas more opposite in conception than that of a suppliant, and that of a
giver - 273.

Christ instructed his followers to worship only the Father.
Unitarian, and wanting in the essentials of orthodoxy
Jesus desired his followers to have recourse, in their difficulties, not to him, but to
his Father 373-4.

The apostles paid divine or supreme worship to the Father only

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1 416-7.

Josh. v. 14. - Joshua did worship, respect, not religious veneration, to the captain
of the host of Jehovah ; namely, to an angel — 141.

Kiss the Son. Embrace his discipline, do homage to God's vice-
162.

Putting trust in the Son, or in his name. Embracing
his religion. He who confides in Jesus Christ confides also in God - 162, 260,
comp. 207.

The worship of Christ, while on earth. civil respect, not

237-9, 249, 256, 263, 269, 350, comp. 110-11, 141, 153,

Baptizing into the name of Christ, or baptizing into
Christ; a phrase not necessarily implying religious worship, but expressive of
a belief in the religion instituted by the Messiah — 277-9.

John v. 23. All men should honour the Son as they honour the Father. The Son
to be honoured as the ambassador of God the Father, the Being who commis-
sioned him-334-5.

Acts ii. 21; ix. 14, 21; xxii. 16. Rom. x. 12, 13. 1 Cor. i. 2.

To call on the
name of the Lord signifies, either to worship God, or to acknowledge Jesus as
the Messiah, to profess one's-self a Christian - 389, 400, 410, 428, 431.
Acts vii. 59. Calling upon, and saying, Lord Jesus, &c. Not perforce an act
of religious adoration, an acknowledgment of Christ's Deity-397-8.

Rom. i. 7. 2 Cor. xiii. 14, et al. Grace and peace, &c. The general mode of
commencing and concluding St. Paul's Epistles, not religious adoration, but
pious wishes. The blessings wished for directed towards the Father as their
fountain and originator, and towards the Son as the channel through which they
are conveyed-415, 447, 455-6, 508.

Rom. ix. 1.—I say the truth in Christ: as a Christian. Not the formula of an
oath

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2 Cor. xii. 8, 9.

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- I besought the Lord. Interpreted as a prayer to God; but
more properly as an address to Christ, when personally present to the apostle —
455, comp. 415.

1 Thess. iii. 11-13. 2 Thess. ii. 16. — God addressed as the original fountain of
the blessings invoked; and Christ, as he who possessed delegated power to impart
these blessings. Pious wishes do not, however, always imply direct prayer—
504-5, 507; comp. 415, 573.

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1 Tim. i. 12. — I thank Jesus Christ. Expressive of great obligation — 509.

Heb. xiii. 20, 21. 1 Pet. iv. 11.

To whom be glory.

545, 550.

Ambiguous whether

directed to God or to Christ. Interpreted, however, by many Trinitarians, as
ascriptions of praise to the Father

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1 John v. 14, 15.
Rev. v. 9-13, et al.·

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Thou art worthy, &c. Christ addressed, not as God, but
as a being who had been slain - 578-9.

15. No sufficient Argument for the Deity of Christ drawn from those
Texts which seem to assert or imply his Pre-existence.

Gen. xiv. 18. Heb. vii. 1.

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A deficiency of evidence to prove that Christ was the angel
of Jehovah mentioned so frequently in the Old Testament. Many Trinitarians
decidedly opposed to this opinion, either in application to special appearances,
or to the whole of them 108, 122-3, 126-8, 130, 133, 141, 144, 216, 221-2,
396-7, 521.

- Lo, I come. The words of the prophet himself; or a
prophetic anticipation of what the Messiah would say — 164, 542.
Ps. cx. 1. Matt. xxii. 44. Jehovah said unto my Lord; that is, he will

John i. 15, 30. He was before me; superior in dignity.
John iii. 2, 13, 31; vi. 38, 51; vii. 28, 29; viii. 42; xi. 27; xiii. 3; xvi. 27–30;
xvii. 8; xviii. 37. - Proceedeth forth and came from God; came down from
heaven; from above; into the world, &c. interpreted of a divine commission, or
of moral qualities-322, 325, 328, 339, 340, 342-3, 344-5, 347, 359, 362, 374-5,
378, 381.

John vi. 62. Ascend where he was before, in the divine decree. Perhaps an allu-
sion to the impersonal Logos; or an indication of Christ's knowledge of sublime
and heavenly doctrines - 341.

The glory which I had with thee before the world was, in the

divine decree. Christ spake as Mediator, not as God -376-8.

John xvii. 24. -

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For thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. Similar
language applied to Christians as well as to the Saviour - 381.

Rom. viii. 3. Gal. iv. 4. God sending his own Son, expressive of divine com-
mission 417, 458-9.

1 Cor. xv. 47. - The Lord from heaven; that is, heavenly, possessing the qualities
of incorruption and immortality; or, will be from heaven. The Lord probably
an interpolation. Some conceive that Christ is not meant here - 446.
2 Cor. viii. 9. He became poor. Was poor as regards his worldly circumstances,
whilst he was at the same time rich in miraculous gifts — 453-4.

Eph. iv. 9.— He descended into the lower parts of the earth; into the tomb, or into

Phil. ii. 6.

470.

Being in the form of God. The use of the participle being does not
afford an unexceptionable argument for pre-existence — 476.

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Phil. ii. 7, 8.- Took upon him the form of a servant, and other expressions,
resolvable not into Christ's assumption of human nature, but into his appearance
as a slave, and as a common or ordinary man ; whilst, in respect to character and
offices, he was greatly superior - 482-3.

Col. i. 17.

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He is before all things: prior in excellence - 494-5.

Heb. ii. 14. He took part of flesh and blood; participated of human nature, in
the same manner as other human beings — 534.

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Heb. ii. 16. He took not on him the nature of angels, &c.; a great error. The

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correct rendering: "He did not assist angels, but," &c.—534-5.

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Heb. ii. 17. In all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren. It
was necessary that in all respects he should be like his brethren-535.

Heb. xi. 26.

The reproach of Christ; reproaches similar to those which Christ
was to endure. The word "Christ" may signify the Hebrew people - 543.

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1 Pet. i. 11. The spirit of Christ which was in the prophets; the spirit by which
the prophets were inspired, and which afterwards dwelt in Christ; or the spirit
by which they foretold the sufferings of Christ -548.

1 Pet. iii. 19, 20.— By which he preached to the spirits in prison, who sometime
were disobedient, &c. Explained so as not to involve the notion of Christ's
pre-existence-549-50.

1 John iv. 2, 3. - That Jesus Christ is come in the flesh.
who is come in the flesh," who is a real man; said in
opinions of the age-556-7.

Rather, "Jesus Christ
opposition to the false

III. THE HOLY SPIRIT NOT THE THIRD PERSON IN THE

GODHEAD.

The Father alone self-existent and unoriginated-59, 60.

The Deity of the Holy Ghost, and his eternal procession from the Father and the
Son, not laid down in Scripture - 40, 53-55, 372, 373, 395, 449, 459.
Suppposing that the doctrine of the Nicene and Athanasian Creeds, respecting
the procession of the Spirit, and his subordination to the Father and the Son,
were true, it would destroy his proper equality — 35, 59, 60.
The Holy Ghost never in Scripture called God — 51, 53, 395.
That he should be adored, not clearly set forth in Scripture- 54.
He should never be addressed in prayer-63.

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