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analogous to his own literal translation of that passage on which we have before observed . This same literal translation is also given in a
note on the phrase < he divested himself of it / ' in the Improved Version of the New Testament . To prove what ? Why that as he was rich and not rich at the same time ; so
his being in the form of God ^ and divested of it ^ and not in it , were also simultaneous . Mr . Belsham admits that , " if it could be proved from other premises that Jesus Christ existed before he was born into this world , "
which " he says , it cannot , " ( and for which assertion it seems , we are to-take his mere ipse dixit , ) the passages we have been considering , 4 < might be supposed to contain a remote and figurative allusion to that extraordinary
fact . " We contend , that being jncapable of a rational interpretation upon any other hypothesis ,
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they are in themselves clear and decisive evidence of it . But were that fact proved from other pre - mises , these passages ^ as translated and explained by Mr . Bel
sham , would not bear any sort of allusion to it ; and therefore his rendering and his sense of these
passages is , by his own acknow * legement , not the true one . We might go on to adduce a great variety of passages , containing expressions which cannot
be accounted for , but upon the supposition of the pre-existehce of Jesus Christ ; but to enter into so wide a field would carry us far
beyond what was intended in these remarks . Enough I conceive , has been said to shew that the arguments in support of that doctrine , remain unaffected by any thing Mr . Belsham has advanced in support of the contrary opinion . ~ Your ' s , & c . JOHN MAKSOM ,
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THE CASE OF MR . STOISTE . t
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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
Sheffield , sir , October 12 , 1808 I take it for granted that the major part of your readers , will feel all that anxious solicitude concerning the fate of . Mr . Stone , which you have predicted , ( p . 518 . ) and that their " generous feelings will excite them to the
chearful , prompt performance of every correspondent act of sympathy and benevolence . At the same time however , it must be admitted , that this venerable confessor , by adopting and " boldly avowing ' doctrines so opposite and contradictory to those of the church
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of England , has thereby franklyrenounced his conformity to her , and of course subjected himself to all those unpleasant consequences which have since occurred . The church ' assuredly compels her clergy not only to subscribe to , but to profess their assent and consent , ex animo to
doctrines of a very opposite tendency from those of the Unitarians . Whether these doctrines are true or false ; scriptural or unscriptural , is not the question ? but whether the governors of the church might be expected , or
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The Case of Mr . Stone . 723
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1808, page 723, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1706/page/31/
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