PRINTED FOR JAMES FLETCHER AND WILLIAM. AND SOLD BY MESSRS. RIVINGTON, IN ST. PAUL'S M DCC XCIV. PREFACE. As the aweful fubject of the enfuing pages is so very important and interefting, it is hoped the reader will not interpret them as if written with a view to a trial of fkill, or in order to provoke a literary combat. Their object is far otherwise. It is, if poffible, to reconcile the jarring and difcordant opinions of Chriftians, that they may all unite, and think one and the fame thing, concerning the perfon of Him to whom they must owe their falva tion. In the New Teftament it is a moft certain truth, that the term ɛoç is repeatedly and decidedly applied to JESUS CHRIST; and, therefore, according to the doctrine of the New Teftament, he must be what so fignifies. It is repeatedly and decidedly alfo the doctrine of the New Teftament, that JESUS CHRIST is fubordinate, acting by delegation, according to the will of the Father; and, therefore, how is this to be reconciled with his being what ɛo fignifies? The The difficulty here has appeared to be so very great, that various means have been pursued in order to remove it. On the one part, it has been boldly affirmed by some, that the term ɛoç is never directly applied to JESUS CHRIST; and by others of the fame party, but with lefs confidence, that, when it is fo applied, it is not in that fense in which it is applied to the Father. On the other part, it has been urged, that the term so is certainly and directly applied to JESUS CHRIST, and that he, therefore, is what sos figni fies; |