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the glory of publishing the gospel , this glory Jesus Christ says Up had given his disciples . Upon what ground then does S " ir . Belsham affirm that lie had not given
it them , but only purposed and intended to do it ? Did Jesus not mean what his words seemed to import ; but something very different from it , if not the very reverse of it ? But that Jesus Christ really meant what he said and not what Mr . Belsham supposes him to mean , is sufficiently clear fiom what is recorded by the evangelists . Mark says * that , in the earlier part of his ministry , " He ( Jesus ) ordained twelve , " i . e . of his disciples , 4 ; that they should
be with him , and that he might send them forth to preach , and to have power to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons . " See also Mat . x . 1 . and Luke vi . 13 . Surely Mr . Belsham will not say lhatwhenhe ordained them , named them apostles , as Luke tells us he did , endued them with
miraculous powers and sent them forth to preach , that he did not
actually bestow on them the glory ot publishing the gospel , but only intended to do it . Or will he say in the face of the passages above referred to , that they were not qualified for the business to which
they were appointed ? But he says , " they were not actually qualified and sent forth till after the effusion of the spirit on the day of pentccost . " That they
received additional qualifications at that time is true , but that they were apostles before , and were actually qualified to instruct mankind though in a less degree , is equally true , and consequently
* Chap . iii . 14 .
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J < sus Christ had actually and not intentionally given them the glory which his father had given him . 4 t In the same sense , " says Mr .
Bclsham , " the Father had mwn it ( this glory ) to him , that is , had fully purposed to bestowed it upon him . " Jesus Christ says that the glory which he prayed for , he had with the Father
before the world was ; Mr . Belsham says he had it in the pu > pose ot God , that is , God had fully purposed to give it him . That God does all things- according- to his purpose , find that men are called
and have blessings bestowed upon them according to the purpose of God is lans ; uaire that is intelligu hie , is the language of scripture ; but that God has done any thing , o r g iven any thing in p urpose ; or that we have or possess any thing
in the purpose ot God is neither the language of scripture , nor oi common sense , and therefore I conclude not the meaning of our Lord in those words , The glory which 1 had with thee before the
world was . " Mr . Belsham says f , cc This way of speaking of a thing as already done , which was certainly determined upon , was familiar to the Jews ; " but he has not cited
one passagefrom the Jewish scriptures to prove it , and those passages which he has cited from the Christian scriptures , are some oi them cited from epistles written
to Gentile churches , and not one of them say any thing like what they are brought to prove . Let us examine the passages . 2 Tim . i . . 9 . u Who hath saved us and called us with an holy calling * f M . Repos . Vol . ii . p . 550 .
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65 fj Mr . Marsom ' s Defence of the Pre-exislence of Christ . Let . IV .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1808, page 656, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2399/page/20/
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