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340. 'Qui nude tantum hominem eum dicunt ex Joseph generatum * * moriuntur.' 'Non nude hominem'-- not a mere man do I hold Jesus to have been and to be; but a perfect man and, by personal union with the Logos, perfect God.
That his having an earthly father might be requisite to his being a perfect man I can readily suppose; but why the having an earthly father should be more incompatible with his perfect divinity, than his having an earthly mother, I cannot comprehend.
All that John and Paul believed, God forbid that I should not! Chap.VII.p.
389. It is a sufficient reason for not receiving either them ('Arian doctrines'), or the interpretations brought to support them, that the ancients, in the best and purest times, either knew nothing of them, or if they did, condemned them. As excellent means of raising a presumption in the mind of the falsehood of Arianism and Socinianism, and thus of preparing the mind for a docile reception of the great idea itself--I admit and value the testimonies from the writings of the early Fathers.
But alas! the increasing dimness, ending in the final want of the idea of this all-truths- including truth of the Tetractys eternally manifested in the Triad; -- this, this is the ground and cause of all the main heresies from Semi-Arianism, recalled by Dr.Samuel Clarke, to the last setting ray of departing faith in the necessitarian Psilanthropism of Dr.Priestley. Ib.p.
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