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    the standard of truth , there is an end of the controversy : Aristns and Unitarians are both driven out of the field s for the hum - ble prophet of Nazareth thinks it no robbery to be equal with God . Here then my worthy friend takes the liberty to correct the common translation , and renders the apostle ' s words , p . 170 , r he did not aspire to be as God > he did not aim at any higher

    glory and power than what he possessed . " But he argues , that *< his being made in the likeness of men is mentioned as a proof of his humility , which it could not be , if he never existed in . any other form /'

    It may be said of this , as of a former text , that if the pre-Existence of Christ had been already established upon clear and independent evidence , this passage might be fairly understood as alluding to that amazing event , but it will by no means of itself prove the Arian doctrine , because it admits of a very easy and satisfactory interpretation upon the supposition of the simple humanity of Jesus Christ . Christ was * ' in the form of God / ' as being the messenger And ambassador of God to man , and invested with miraculous powers superior to any which had ever beeu conferred upon any

    other human being . " He thought it no robbery to be as-God /* which is in fact ^ the literal translation of the words , ( See Schleusner , ) that is , he did not consider himself as acting improperly or unjustly , in exercising these divine powers according to his discretion . Or , if the other interpretation be preferred , he did not affect an os-r tentatious display of his miraculous p # wers , as if they were 4

    prize , or a trophy gained in war . < 6 He divested himself" of thesepowers , not by actually resigning them , but by making no use of them for his own personal advantage . The expression is analogous to that , 2 Cor . viii . 9 , being rich he led a life of poverty . This is the sense in which both Arians and Trinitarians must understand the text , unless thev will maintain that God ^ or the divine Loffos , absolutely

    deprived himself of his essential attributes , when he be * came incarnate , which is absurd , and impossible , " He assumed the appearance of a servant } ' * his outward aspect was mean and servile : being in the likeness of men / ' , asMr . Wakefield very properly supplies the text , ** of otkermen . ** Possessed of godlike powers he appeared like a being of superior order ; but declining all ostentatious display of them , he appear- * ed like a man , so that in his external form , in his habits an (| manners , you would not distinguish him from any other snanj e \* en of the humblest station in life .

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    594 Mr . Jtelsham ' s Strictures on Carpenter ' s Zecticrcs .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1807, page 594, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2386/page/30/