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shall witness thy splendour , and see Moses and Elia $ bearing testimony to thy claims , will all receive thee , and thus the necessity of dying on a cross will be done away . " Thus we see that a Jew and a disciple regarded the splendid scene on this occasion as a
happy means of saving his Master from death . Peter grasps it with avidity ; and this conduct in seizing an object so desirable , seems to have suggested , by association , the language of the apostle . Mr . Belsham , in his Calm Inquiry , pp . 128—144 , h ^ s given a fair and full account of the manner in which this
passage is explained by different interpreters . With the majority of Unitarian divines , he takes the " form of God" to mean the being invested with miraculous power . The ellipsis above pointed out , renders their
interpretation more pertinent and forcible than they are aware of ; "Jesus being invested with miraculous power did not consider this power as a thing to be caught at to avoid death ; but declined the use of it for his own sake , and
voluntarily submitted to death . " The truth and Importance of this meanin g might make it worthy of being asserteu by the apostle ; but two circumstances render it demonstrable , that it was not the idea which he meant to inculcate . There is no analogy between the possession of miraculous power , and the phrase " form of God , " to warrant the
metaphor ; and a writer who paid the smallest regard to distinctness and congruity in his ideas , or propriety in his language , would not have adopted it . If the form of God means miraculous endowment , the form of a slave must denote the absence or disuse of
that endowment ; and in this sense Jesus never assumed the form of a slave ; for from his baptism to his crucifixion , he remained in the full and uninterrupted possession of his miraculous power . Besides , the form of a
slave means the death of a slave , which usually was that of crucifixion . In this sense and in this alone , Christ assumed the form of a slave ; and the context sufficiently manifests that it was the death of a slave which Paul had in his mind . J . JONES .
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GLEANINGS ; OR , SELECTIONS AN » REFLECTIONS MADS IN A COURSE OF GENERAL . READING .
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No . CCCLXXXII . Lipsius and the States of Holland . ( From the " Baltimore Unitarian Miscellany . " ) Lipsius-, who wrote a work on steadfastness , and , notwithstanding , changed his religious creed four times , declared
in his book on Politics , that one religion only ought to be tolerated in a state , and that all persons who would not profess themselves to be of the Established Church , should receive no mercy , but be persecuted with fire and
sword . Johann Cernheert refuted these intolerant principles , and gave rise to various controversial publications . To prohibit these , Lipsius attempted to have a mandate issued , that his own book on Politics should not be
refuted . The states of Holland , however , refused his prayer on the following very wise grounds : Either the asserted principles are true , and then they cannot be refuted ; or , they are false , and then the state has no injury to expect from such a discovery .
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No . CCCLXXXIIL Sign of the True Faith . When Henry the Fourth of France was reconciled to the Church of Rome , it was expected that he should give some remarkable testimonial of his
sincerity m returning to the true faith . He accordingly ordered a cross to be erected at Rome , near the church of Santa Maria Maggiore , with this inscription , In hoc sig-no vinces , on the principal part of it . This passed at first
as very Catholic , till it was observed that the part in which the inscription is put is shaped in the form of a cannon , and that he had really attributed only to his artillery what they had taken to be addressed to Heaven . —( On
the authority of Ficoroni , at Rome , from Spence ' s Anecdotes , ( Malone ' s edition , ) 8 vo . 1820 . )
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1821, page 536, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2504/page/32/
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