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357. And our English Unitarians * * have been still refining upon the Socinian scheme, * * and have brought it still nearer to Sabellianism. The Sabellian and the Unitarian seem to differ only in this;--that what the Sabellian calls union with, the Unitarian calls full inspiration by, the Divinity. Ib.p.
359. It is obvious, at first sight, that the true Arian or Semi-Arian scheme (which you would be thought to come up to at least) can never tolerably support itself without taking in the Catholic principle of a human soul to join with the Word. Here comes one of the consequences of the Cartesian Dualism: as if [Greek: sarx], the living body, could be or exist without a soul, or a human living body without a human soul! [Greek: Sarx] is not Greek for carrion, nor [Greek: soma] for carcase. Query XXIV.p.
371. Necessary existence is an essential character, and belongs equally to Father and Son. Subsistent in themselves are Father, Son and Spirit: the Father only has origin in himself. Query XXVI.p.
412. The words [Greek: ouch hos genomenon] he construes thus: "not as eternally generated," as if he had read [Greek: gennomenon], supplying [Greek: aidios] by imagination.
The sense and meaning of the word [Greek: genomenon], signifying made, or created, is so fixed and certain in this author, &c. This is but one of fifty instances in which the true Englishing of [Greek: genomenos, egeneto], &c.
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