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ception no higher or better than a man ? " To which I reply , the Scripture has no where said that Jesus Christ assumed human nature ^ or that he took any nature upon him ; but it does expressly call his state of humiliation , " The
days of his flesh" ( Heb . v . 7 . ) and says that 4 C he was made of the seed of JDavid according to the fleshy" that" the word was made flesh ; ' * and that u as the children
were partakers offlesh and blood , he also took part of the same . " "Now the apostle affirms , thjat Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God ; " yet Jesus Christ is ascended into heaven / and of him it is said , that The
son of man came down from heaven , " and Jesus speaking of himself under the metaphor of bread , says , ( John > ft . 51 . ) ' < I am the living bread which came down from
ieaven : if any man eat of this bread he shall live for ever , and the bread that I will give is ' my flesh ;'• not that he was the son of man before he was made of the $ eed of David ; or flesh before he Came down from heaven ; but
that he ^ who was then the son of in an , who was then flesh , came down from heaven . In like manner we may say , with the strictest truth and propriety , that the loaf , the bread , which . we eat , came out of the fleld , although , it was neither a loaf nor bread whilst it was there ; but to the truth of such an assertion , it is necessary that the substance should be the same , whatever changes ^ it may have passed through . Hence , it will follow , that the change which
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took place in the person of Jesus Christ when he came into the world , was not the assumption of a human person into union with a divine person , or of a human body into union with a pure spirit , but such a change as is consistent with
his proper personal identity and humanity , in every stage of his existence . If Jesus Christ assumed a nature which , was not essential to his person ^ and if that nature
only was capable of sufferings and de&th , then it would not be true that he either died for us , or rose from the dead . When the apostle says that , Being rich , for our sakes he became poor ^ that we through his poverty might be rich
will not the Consideration of the riches we shall possess ( see 1 Cor . xv . 43 , 44 , 45 . ) lead us to some idea of what the riches were of which fre , as the apostle says
« - divested himself ? ' / ( PhiL \ u ? . Improved Version . )* Thirdly , your correspondent asks , Do they suppose that at his ascension he resumed his former rank , or was advanced to a higher one ? " I answer , at his
ascension he entered into the glory which he had with the Father before the world was , according to his prayer , John xvii . 5 . but the reward of his obedience and sufferings is a different matter and consisted in having . a < name given above every name , in the possession of power and authority , in having angels , principalities and powers put in subjection to him , and in being appointed to be the judge of the quick and the dead . In answer to the fourth query
. *' On this subject I have treated more at large in two papers , printed some years since in the 3 d toL of the Protestant Dissenters * Magazine , which your correspondent may consult .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1810, page 302, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2405/page/30/
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