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187. And therefore it is infallibly certain, as Mr.Chillingworth well argues with respect to Christianity in general, that we ought firmly to believe it; because wisdom and reason require that we should believe those things which are by many degrees more credible and probable than the contrary. Yes, where there are but two positions, one of which must be true.
When A.is presented to my mind with probability=5, and B.with probability=15, I must think that B.is three times more probable than A.And yet it is very possible that a C.may be found which will supersede both. Chap.VI.p.
230. The Creed of Jerusalem, preserved by Cyril, (the most ancient perhaps of any now extant,) is very express for the divinity of God the Son, in these words: "And in our Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God; true God, begotten of the Father before all ages, by whom all things were made" * *.
[Greek: Kai eis hena Kyrion Iaesoun Christon, ton uhion tou Theou monogenae, ton ek tou patros gennaethenta, Theon alaethinon, pro panton ton aionon, di' ohu ta panta egeneto]. I regard this, both from its antiquity and from the peculiar character of the Church of Jerusalem, so far removed from the influence of the Pythagoreo-Platonic sects of Paganism, as the most important and convincing mere fact of evidence in the Trinitarian controversy. Ib.p.
233. -- true Son of the Father, 'invisible' of invisible, &c. How is this reconcilable with 'John' i.
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