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public services have formed a majority of the committee , and have , therefore , ( no one else appearing
inclined to undertake the work , ) virtually appointed themselves to this important trust . This is so contrary to every constitutional principle that ought to prevail in
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MH . MARSOM ' S ANSWER TO INQUIRIES ON THE PRE-EXISTENCK OF CHRIST .
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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository
March . 13 , 1810 . Sir , , Your correspondent JJolvIqctko ito $ , in your Repository for Feb
last , p . 69 . requests an answer to certain queries which he proposes , respecting the pre-existence of Jesus Christ * As he professes himself to be anxious to come to a
Hxed and settled opinion respecting that point , " it would give me peculiar pleasure should I be so happy as to afford him any satisfaction on the subject .
It may be necessary , first , however ,, to observe , that , whether the queries he proposes can be satisfactorily answered , or not , the
truth of the pre-existeiice ., if the fact is supported by sufficient evidence , wilLnot be affected by any difficulties that may be suggested as to the nature or modus of it .
It is a fact which your correspondent , I presume , will not question , if he be a believer in revelation * that Jesus Christ is ascended into heaven ; but were your
correspondent asked , what he now is , or where he is ? he would probably 6 nd it very difficult to give a satisfactory answer to those queries ; because , whilst the Scrip-
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a free country , or a free society , that we anxiously wish to see it remedied , by the admission of such well-known ^ steady , and consist .
ent friends t © the cause , as might raise our character , promote our usefulness , and bring the institution to its true spirit and bearing .
[ To be concluded in the next Number . ]
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tures assure us , that we shall be like-him , that we shall be con . formed to his image , and have our vile bodies fashioned like to his glorious bodyy they , at the same time , say , that 6 * It doth
not yet appear what % ce shall be . " Consequently , it does not yet appear what he is ; it may therefore , be equally impossible to give a satisfactory explanation of the mode of his existence , and of his nature before he came into the
world , supposing the doctrine of his pre-existence to be incontrovertibly established .
The queries of your correspondent are precisely of the same nature with those , which , * in the days of the apostles , were made use of to invalidate the doctrine of
the resurrection , * by some who said , Ci There is no resurrection of the dead . " By which they subverted the very foundation on which Christianity rests , the
resurrection of Jesus Christ ; for so the apostle reasons . To- which they reply by asking , < 6 How are the dead raised up ? and with what body do they come ? As it would have been premature m me to have entered on an
* x Cwr , zv , 35 .
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SOO Mr . Marsom on the Pre-Existence of Christ .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1810, page 300, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2405/page/28/
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