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Dates Jehovah fits the Father of ligkes The phrase then , " being in a form of God , " naturally denotes ; the " being in a splendid , immortal form /* The form thus meant , 1 contend , is' the trausfiguration ; " A nd he was changed before them , and his face shone as
the sun , and his garments became white as the light . " I have said that thin representation encouraged in the disciples who witnessed it , the vain hope that Jesus would continue immortal on the earth , as they expected the Messiah to do . " Then Peter said .
Master , it is good for us to bt here , let us make three tabernacles , one for thee , one for Moses , and onefor Elijah . " The purport of which request was , that Moses and Elijah , by continuing with Jesus , might be the means of
recommending him to the Jewish rulers , and thus aupereeding the painfell tragedy of his crucifixion . The transfiguration was certainly intended to be a symbol of the glorious form which Jesus was to assume after his
resurrection ; and the scene , when properly understood , held forth to the disciples the hope that they also would undergo a simitar change in a glorified sft&te . Now it is observable that the
expression " being in a form of God , " or , being in a glorious form , " bears a striking resemblance to the clause " so as to be like in form to his own
glorious body / ' used in chap . iii . ver . g 1 ; and tliis last is unquestionably the antitype cf the transfiguration . The symbolical form which denotes immortality beyond the grave , Jeans , however , did not retain ; but in obedience to the will of God , lie assumed
thefbrai of a slave , having suffered on the cro « s the death of a slave . The apostle having asserted , that Jesus humbled himself to death , and was proved to b * a man , effectually set aside ttoe artifice of the impostors ,
who pretended that he did not actaaHy suffer , as being a man <* n ! y in appear ance . But he did more : by Teferting ' to the transfiguration , he midertn fried the very foumhitiori of their system , which was , that Christ did not t * otrre
front God ^ Acted ! with power -hidependent of him , and even hr opposition to him . What emikl w * forcibly hmt d a ** this tmppkm * atari etrtfol posifton , a « the inferring hfe readers to * vcmnc wAftre it whs i * ecl&fH ! b f
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a voice ^ Dtn-fcesiveli * ^* Wtifa ft twy beloved Son , hear y ^ htotf *? < The sanctions of a future shite claim the simple burtiatiity of Christ , e $ essential to tlttfr validity , sirrce tfofc gospel affords adequate motives to
rejrekitance and moral improvement , only so fyt as it holds forth out * Savi * ottr * s resai rreGtion as a pledge of the resurrection of mankind ; tmt this consideration supposes that he possessed the same frame attd nature with
the rest of the human race , which the deceivers denied , merely because it enabled them speciously to undermine his doctrine . Their argafiierrtj as I have already said , * vas , Climt fc a God ; he did not suffer nor rise from the grave * nor will he come again to
raise the dead : we « tfe , therefore , under no obligation to follow his example , nor to deny ourselves any pleasure * Thfe apostle reftites the premises , nnd enforces on his readers an opposite conclusion : * ' Wherefore , my beloved , as yie hav 6 ftlways obeyed ,
not as in my presence only , but how much more in mine absence , work out your own salration with ( bar and trembling , for it is God that if orketh in you both to will and to do of hh g-ood pleasure . * In pressing upon the converts this inference , Pftul uses an
expression which referred them to the parable of the vineyard , Matt . xx . where Jesus represents the reception of the Gentiles into equal privileges with the Jews . This was , ' no fteubt , a source of discontent to the latter , in all the churches ; ami even the welldisposed among them might be apt to say * ** these last have worked but
one hour * and tliou hast mwde theAl equal uuto us who hare borne the burthen And treat of Hie dajr , The cUme Which Paul adds , «« ftif it is God that worketh in you both to will and to < to tti hi ^ ^ ood picture , must appear rarther titi tm eiteuifalbtt&tice &t
his ftrgitittftitv uttl ^ s vtf ^ di scover that it i » feimdedmi the mister which the htttisehttidtef makes to fh ^ complf * mautf " FJriend ^ I d <» Itree nt > wrorigV didst not thou ftgrefc With me for at j > en « ry ?
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1818, page 392, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2477/page/48/
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