Teacher, but learn of Christ.' After much strained and unsatisfactory reasoning, Mr. Jones quotes from Rev. XXI. 7-" He that overcometh "shall inherit all things, and I will be HIS GOD,

and he shall be MY SON." And he affirms that these words "Christ says of himself." The

same thing has been asserted by other writers; but Dr. Doddridge has the honesty to make the following admission-" As the Lamb and He that "sat upon the throne have been mentioned as dis"tinct throughout the whole book, I am ready to "understand the Father as the person here spoken "of*" No one who will read the whole book of Revelation with an unprejudiced mind, can understand the passage in any other sense. I will notice but one other of those texts which Mr. Jones brings forward with the view of exposing the heresy of

his opponents.

XXXIX.

(p. 42.)

"But when he saith all things are put under †1 Cor. xv. "him, it is manifest that HE IS EXCEPTED which

27, 28.

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did put all things under him."

"And when all

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things shall be SUBDUED UNTO HIM."

Here again, Mr. Jones quotes just as much of the text as suits his own purpose, and drops it, as

he has done before, in the middle of a sentence, opposing to it the following text. "We look for THE SAVIOUR, the Lord JESUS Phil. iii. 20,

* See DODDRIDGE's Fam. Expos. on Rev. 21. 7.

(p. 43.)

21.

"CHRIST: who is ABLE even to SUBDUE ALL "THINGS to HIMSELF."

I again declare that I know nothing of these Heretics, against whom Mr. Jones writes; but I must say that he injures his own cause by the manifest and gross unfairness of his dealing with them. Surely they would give the whole of the firstquoted text, which is continued thus:-"When all

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things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the "Son also himself be subject unto HIM that put "all things under him, that GOD may be all " in all."

I have read many ingenious comments, written with the view of explaining away the force of this last passage; but if words have any meaning, nothing can be more clear than that St. Paul's doctrine differed widely from that of these writers. I must, however, give the argument which Mr. Jones draws from the two texts. He says"As Christ is man, all things are subdued to him "by another; as Christ is God, he himself is "that other, and able to subdue all things to HIM"SELF!" Surely, a man must be greatly under the influence of prejudice before he can admit such reasoning!

Mr. Jones here closes his controversy with his heretical opponents, and proposes to bring forward further Scriptural proofs of the truth of his doctrine. With this view he quotes the following

text:

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XL.

Denying the ONLY LORD GOD, and OUR "LORD JESUS CHRIST."

He then gives the passage as it stands in the Greek :

Τον μόνον δεσποτην Θεον και Κυριον ημων Ιησεν Χριςον. The argument he draws from this text is precisely of the same description as that which he advanced in Article XIII. He says, "As there

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" is no article before Kugiov, the first and second comma are both meant of the same person;" and he concludes with these words, "There is "one only Supreme Governor, therefore Christ " is he."

I remarked before, that where the name of God and of Christ occur in the same sentence, they are invariably applied to the Father and the Son, throughout the New Testament. This same St. Jude opens his Epistle (only three verses before that which Mr. Jones has quoted) with these words" Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and "brother of James, to them that are sanctified

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by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus "Christ;" thus plainly marking a distinction between God and Christ. If the Apostle had meant to proclaim so important and awful a doctrine as that our Lord was equal with the Almighty Father, or, as Mr. Jones states it, "the

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one only supreme Governor," can it be believed that he would leave it to be discovered by a nice

D

(p. 45.) Jude 4.

(p. 46.)

Jude 24. 25.

Ephes.v. 27.

and disputable point of grammar?

Our Lord

and his Apostles repeatedly deny such doctrine.

XLI.

"UNTO HIM that is able to PRESENT you "faultless before the presence of HIS GLORY—to "the ONLY WISE GOD our SAVIOUR."

"That HE (Christ) might PRESENT it to "HIMSELF a glorious Church."

"It is the only wise God," saith Mr. Jones, "who is able to present us before the presence of "his glory; but Christ is to present us in glory "to Himself, therefore he is the only wise God."

It is distressing to see a most awful subject treated in this manner. An attentive reader of the New Testament will be satisfied that the words only wise God, or God only wise, are in no instance applied to any other being than the Almighty Father. St. Paul concludes his Epistle to the Romans with the following doxology: "To God only wise, be glory through "Jesus Christ." But Mr. Jones says, " Christ is the only wise God."

In the chapter from which the second text is taken, St. Paul treats of Christ and his Church, under the figure of husband and wife; and "Christ will place near to himself" (for this is the meaning of the words)" his true Church, as a "chaste and glorious Bride." This accords with our Lord's affectionate aspiration (John 17. 24),

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given me, be with me where I am, that they "may behold my glory which thou hast given me."

There is nothing in the two texts brought forward here by Mr. Jones, to justify the inference he draws.

The two following texts are now given without comment :

XLII.

(p. 48.)

The dispensation of the Grace of God, which Ephes. iii.

" is given me to you-ward; how that BY REVE"LATION HE (God) made known unto me the

2, 3.

"I neither received it of man, neither was Gal. i. 12. "I taught it, but BY THE REVELATION of

"JESUS CHRIST."

The object of this quotation is to show that the revelation of God, mentioned in the first text, is called the revelation of Christ in the second.

He must be a strange sort of Christian who would deny that the revelation of Christ is the revelation of God. "He whom God hath sent

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speaketh the words of God," saith the Baptist. (John 3. 34.)

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XLIII.

THOU, even THOU ONLY KNOWEST the 1 Kings viii. "HEARTS of all the children of men."

39.

"All the Churches shall know that I AM HE Rev. ii. 23.

"which searcheth the reins and HEARTS."

Mr. Jones remarks, that to know the hearts of