To get rid of this no-difficulty in a single verse or two in the Epistles, Skelton throws an insurmountable difficulty on the whole Mosaic history.
Ib.p.

265.
Therefore, he saith, 'I' (as a man) 'can of myself do nothing'.
Even of this text I do not see the necessity of Skelton's parenthesis (as a man).

Nay it appears to me (I confess) to turn a sublime and most instructive truth into a truism.

"But if not as the Son of God, therefore 'a fortiori' not as the Son of man, and more especially, as such, in all that refers to the redemption of mankind." Ib.p.

267.
To this glory Christ, as God, was entitled from all eternity; but did not acquire a right to it as man, till he had paid the purchase by his blood.
I too hold this for a most important truth; but yet could wish it to have been somewhat differently expressed; as thus:--"but did not acquire it as man till the means had been provided and perfected by his blood." Ib.p.