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      I here take leave of the controversy , not being in the least degree ambitious of having the last word . And I cannot better

      conclude , than with congratulating the Socinians on the great accession of strength which their cause is likely to derive from the

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      &R . MARSOM S DEFENCE OF THE PRE-EXISTENCE OF CHRIST ; IX REPLY TO MR . BELSHAM . LEtTER I .

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      To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .

      sir , Jlyril 20 , 1808 . The high esteem and veneration I entertain for Mr . Belsham on ticeount of his theological knowledge , his superior talents , his -critical skill and intrepid -boldness in the defence of what he

      conceives to be truth , would incline me , were I not a stranger , which I ever wish to be , to implicit faith , to submit with little hesitation to liis decisions ; but as I ajn taught

      to call no man master upon earth , to follow the convictions of my own mind , and to dissent from every man where I think his arguments weak and inconclusive , y « u

      will not wonder if I attempt to point out what appears to me erroneous in a writer of whom I have a very high opinion and for whom I feel the most sincere

      respect . When I first read Mr . B . ' s observations on the pre-existence of Jesus Christ in his two last letters to Mr . Carpenter , I felt that impression which his , mode of -reasoning is calculated to produce ; this led me to read them with

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      critical prowess of their redoub f - able champion J . M . on the one hand , and the stern integrity of

      that virtuous and consistent ttntiidolater Mr . Stone on the other , I am your obedient humble servant , CLER . DUN ELM ,

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      more close attention in order te examine the solidity of thd arguments with which he combats that doctrine ; the result of that

      examination I now submit to you for insertion in the Repository , if you think it deserving

      attention-Mr . B . first notices a concession of Mr . Carpenter ' s * , " which " fC

      he says , however creditable to his candour , is , I scruple npt to

      say , fatal to his argument . ' * That concession is , I shall readily acknowledge that there is nothing decisive upon this subject in the first three evangelists , " and again , iC

      I do acknowledge that it there was no other part of the New Testament extant , but the three gospels of jVtatthew , Mark and Luke , I could not find sufficient evidence

      for the doctrine which I am now maintaining / ' Now 1 would ask , supposing that doctrine to be true , will it necessarily follow that the silence of three of the evangelists respecting it \ yill be , fatal to the arguments * drawn from the express declarations of the fourth in support of the doctrine ? The thvee

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      Mr . Marsoin ' s Defence of the Pre-existence of Christ . 3 Y 9

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      ? M . Repo ? , vol . U . p . 54 * -

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1808, page 379, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2394/page/27/