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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
New Brentford ^ sm , March 8 , 1800 . ft is now a long time since I have inter-meddled with religious controversies . Possessing
however a mind ardent in the love of truth , and in endeavours ta find it out , I cannot but exceedingly admire the liberal principles upon which your Repository is founded and conducted , and I contemplate
great good to be done by it to the cause of truth . I may at the same time , take some shame to myself , that 1 have not till very lately been acquainted with your most excellent publication . —Mr .
Marsom , a man I have long known and esteemed , has ( I observe , ) published several letters on the prc-existence of Jesus Christ . — I have many years been made acquainted with the peculiar notions
of my old friend on that subject , and as I think some further light may be thrown upon the passages of scripture adduced in that controversy , I shall take the liberty to trouble you with some remarks oa Mr . Marsom ' s letters , and his
construction of those passages . I have now before rue his 5 th Letter , in which he , with much surprize , animadverts upon Mr . Bclsham ' s position u that the
words of the apostle Paul , 2 Cor . viii . . 9- express two states , not successive but simultaneous y not that Christ was first rich and after
became poor , but that his riches were contemporary with his poverty . " This declaration Mr . M . calls u a natural absurdity , an absolute contradiction , ' * and 1
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* EFEyCEOr MR . BELSHAM S INTERPRETATION" OP 2 C 0 R . viii . £ . IN REPLY TO MR . MARSOM .
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> hope I shall be excused if I ex . press my equal surprise , that Mi [ M . should have made so extrava > gant a declaration ; for after a ] . the wonder he has exnressed ^ ani
however inexplicable or contra , dictory Mr . B . ' s position maj appear to him , it is pretty certain , that the above declaration of Mr . B- is strictly the true construction of the passage . If indeed
the apostle meant that Jesus Christ was rich , in the ordinary sense of the word , then indeed he could not be said to be at the same time poor , in the same sense of the word : i . e . he could not possess
revenue , and at the same time not possess it . As it seems best to answer Mr . M / s purpose * to put the ordinary construction on the words poor and rich , he has reasoned upon them in that way .
I am sure he will excuse me if I observe upon this part of the subject , that he has acted most incautiously in his mode of argumentation . He says a * man cannot be rich and poor at the same ^ ime , cc a rich man ( he says ) may ,
at the same time be a miserable man , but he cannot while he is rich be poor ^ ' and yet in only ten lines further , ho flatly contradicts this his own position , by observing , that 4 C if a man ' s riches consist in the enjoyment of his property , then when he denies himself common necessaries , he is not rich , " or in other words , he is poor and so M | ' . JMSs-argument stands as follows : a rich man , ( i . e » a man possessed of property ) cannot while he is rick
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1809, page 202, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1735/page/26/
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