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lam the bread of life : he that cometk ta nic shall never hunger ;
and he that Believetft ox me shall never thirst - ' * - Coming to him , and believing on him hcre do not mean-beHex ing his doctrine ; bat bis jlfe&sitfhship , that is , that he was the Christ . This was the
prtmary object of faith , and this fanth was not to be produced by his doctrine , but by his miracles , the great evidences of his Messiafaship . 'fr Ye seek me , ' * says Jcsks Cfcrkt > v , 26 . " not because
ye saw the miracles , ' * and were convinced of mv divine mission , * but because ye did eat of the loaves and were filled . " " He
that believe tli that Jesus is the Christy is born of God ; " whereas th ^ doctrine of Christ is a second * ary object of faith , arising out of the former and necessarily ' dependant upon it . I maintain then that , whether
Jesus Christ speaks of himself * in tiiisdiscourse , under the metaphor of bread , or without a metaphor , he speaks not of his doctrine but of his person , ( and this Mr . Belsham has admitted ; . ) and that
when he says the son of man was in heaven before , had come down from heaven , and should ascend up into heaven , he speaks of his person literally , and does therein most plainly and unequivocally teach the doctrine of his
pre-existence . But before I dismiss the passage I will give what I conceive to be the meaning of our Lord ,
adopting the rendering of Mr . Simpson , substituting only " ascend up , " for " rise vp . " " Nevertheless , when ye shall see the son of man ascend up where he
• i Cor . xv . 45 .
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was before , ' * i . e . when they should perceive that he was so ascended by the out-pouring of the holy spirit which was shortly
to take place , by which event alone they could be assured of it ; , for the unbelieving Jews , to whom our Lord was speaking , neither saw him rise from the dead , nor ascend into heaven , and the
descent of the holy spirit is the argument which Peter makes use of to establish that fact , see Acts , ii . 33 . u Whert ye perceive by that astonishing event that the son of
man has ascended up where he was before ,, ye will know , that he is the spirit that giveth life . The flesh profiteth nothing / ' He had before told them that he was
the bread of life and that his flesh which he gave ( or was about to give ) far the life of the world was truly food , and his blood truly drink ; probably referring in these expressions to his sufferings and
death : but this independent 01 his future glorification , would profit nothing with respect to their being raised to immortality at the last day , of which he had been speaking . " He is the spirit that aivetli-life . " - " The last Adam ,
says the apostle * , was made a quickening spirit . " And again , " The Lord is that spirit / ' Therefore he says : again t , " Though we have known Glirist after the flesh ,
yet riaw henceforth , know we him no more . ' * lie was made . a . quickening -spirit , " . not by l ^ s death , but by the power which he afterwards . received to quicken the dead and raise them to eternal
litbv " The words that I speak unto you , they are spirit and they are life , " i . e , they relate to that
t % Cor * v . 16 .
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556 JXr . Marso ? r £ & Defence of the P re-existence of Christ * Let . 7 J / V
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1808, page 556, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2397/page/32/
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