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MR , MAKSOM ' S DEFENCE OF THE PRE-EX 1 STENCE OF CHRIST ; IN UEPLY TO MR . BEtSHAM . LETTER II ,
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an umtakuk husband ' s advice Td Aft VxiIauia * BACIIEtOR .
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To the Editor of the Monthly Ifcep&sitory .
sir , . August 11 , 1808 . The objections of the " -Unitarian Bachelor" to the marriage ceremony are certainly well founde 4 - —To be desired to repeat
after the priest in the name of the Father , Sou . and Holy . Ghost , always appeared to me , to be ¦ highly repugnant to the principles of an Unitarian , and what he could not comply with , without
departing from them , pro tcm ~ j * ore * To avoid which inconsistency , I adopted this method , when I t 4 took to myself a wife ; ** I said . In the name of Almighty God- ) &c . &c . this I pronounced as audibly and distinctly as I did the other parts of that service , which the law has
anpointed to be performed , previous to our entering into the 44 holy state of matrimony . " The priest i took no notice of my deviation , but finished the ceremony , re-Chived his fee , shook me by the hand -and wished me much
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happiness * That he heard fhc t cannot well doubt ; but knowing me to be an Unitarian , he pro * bably respected my scruples , and overlooked my alteration of his form of , words .
I advise iA Unitarian Bachelors " to adopt my plan , and I should hope in general , it will not be objected to by the officiating clergyman . —If the Unitarian Bachelor take to himself a wife ,
without performing the marriage ceremony as set forth in the book of common prayer , the marriage will be void in the eye of the law , tmd the offspring illegitimate . —The marriage act allows no marriages but what are solemnized in the church of England , and among the Quakers and Jews . Hoping
that the Unitarian Bachelor will soon be blest with a wife , without departing from his principles , I am , Six , Your ' s respectfully , An Unitarian Husband .
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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository *
sir , April 26 , 1808 . In staling the evidence for the pre-existence of Jesus Christ , according to my promise in a
former letter , I shall begin with John iii . 13 . ** No man hath astended up to heaven , but he that ¦
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came down from heaven , even the son of man which is in heaven . " Mr . Belsham considers
his sense ot the middle clause ot this passage as so incontrovertible that he .-say ' % 9 i » " dhis I regard as a palmary argument , anc * ^
afford-4 ¦ * * M .. Repos . vol . ii . p . 546 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1808, page 470, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2396/page/14/
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