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quickening power which I shall receive , and to that eternal life which I shall have to bestow . And thus Peter seems to have
understood our Lord , for immediately alter he had heard him deliver this discourse , he exclaims , v . 68 , " Thou hast the words of eternal life . " Comp . chap . viii . 28 .
This appears to me to be the most obvious and natural meaning of the words , but it is time to proceed to some further proofs of the doctrine for which I contend .
The next passage I shall produce is that contained in the xvi . John , 28 . " 1 came forth from the father , and am come into the world : again , I leave the world , and go the father * " The clauses of this verse are exact
counterparts to each other ; they cannot therefore be one of them figurative and the other literal , but must both of them * be either literal or figurative . And that they are counterparts to each other the
word , againy which imports a proper return , sufficiently shews . Now it is contended that the latter of these clauses is strictly literal , i . e . that when Jesus Christ left the world he did
locally ascend up into heaven . 41 He was , says Mark * , received up into heaven , and sat on the right hand of God . " Luke says f , that " While he blessed them , he was parted from them , and
carried up into heaven / And in the Acts it is said } , " While they ( the disciples ) looked stedfastly towards heaven , as he went up , behold , two men stood by them in white apparel ; which said also , * Chap . xvi . \ fy f Cbap . gxiv . 5 * .
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ye men of Galilee , why stand ye gazing up into heaven ? This same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven , shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven . " There can be no
doubt then , that when he left the world he really and literally ascended up into heaven . If then cc going to the father , " means that he went up into heaven , the
opposition in the text requires that his coming forth from the father , in the former clause , should be understood of his real descent from heaven . This will .
I conceive inevitably follow , unless we are to sacrifice the analogy of language , and its plainest and most obvious meaning at the shrine of system .
In the ** Improved Version" is the following note on the passage % " I came forth from the father , q . d . I was sent by him as his messenger to mankind . ' * Very true ; but does it from thence follow that he was not sent from
heaven ? He himself repeatedly says that he came down from heave n * On a similar passage , John xiii . 3 . " Jesus knowing that the father had given all things intQ his hands , and that he was come
from God , and went to God , " i& the following note ))• u He came from God as his messenger to the world . See ch . i . 6 . he was going to God to give an account of
hi * charge ; his public mission and ministry being closed . " By what authority is it said , that € i He was going to God to give ari account of lite charge ? " Have the scriptures said any thing of the kind ? Has Jesus any where said ^ $ CJiap . u jo , * i . ( I Improved Vprsioj * .
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Jl / r . Marsorns Defence of the Pre-existence of Christ . Let . III . 557
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1808, page 557, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2397/page/33/
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