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862 Misceilaneous Correspondence.
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F)N Social Communion And Co-Operation.
and oaghe to possess . " If biblical literature deserve the attention of any , it deserves the attention of all . But with it let us ever unite an ardent desire and unquenchable fthirst to ascertain the will of God ^ and a resolution to > be separated from it neithea- by life nor death nor any other thing , tf this be
uncompromisingly doue perhaps G . P . H . nnay find ere long , i ; hat sooie originality is far from impossible { i in ordinary and hackneyed subjects . '" If any ears be fascinated ^ , let them not be the li itching ears , " but those that can admit everlasting" , though occasionally alarming-, truths to the recesses of their hearts by such plain and solemn apueab a 3 " he
that Lath ears to hear , lut him hear . " If inquiry be pursued at all , let it be fearless and boundless , accompanied by steadfast purposes of framing every deed , every word , every thought , amidst evil report and amidst good report , according t < o the truth as it is in Jesus . If we
feast at all , let it be such feasting as to > confirm really Christian social communion and co-operation ; bearing always in mind these simple words , ( I must be " negligent of ear-gate and eye gate , ' Mr . Editor , ) fic By this shall men know that ye are my disciples , if ye love one ANOTHER . "
As facts stand before our eyes at present , I suypeel that Unitarians of honestfc liearts , speaking generally of their party , must , how reluctantly soever ., confess , KC Our religious impressions are too weak to produce any bond of social union amongst ourselves . " Ci E hope , however , to witness the time when a call for I he adoption of the" only < c plan for promoting union and co-operation ,
shall arise simultaneously throughout the Unitarian body . " Notwithstanding my love of antiquated modes , as far as Christianity is concerned , I remain ,, with cordial good wishes to you , to your useful periodical , to all men , particularly to Unitarians , asid , above all odhers , to young and freely-inquiring Unitarians , No Foe to Innovation .
862 Misceilaneous Correspondence.
862 Misceilaneous Correspondence .
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On the IHcssinn-s of the General Resurrection . I ' o the Kd ' ttor . Snt , (>< : t . 15 , 18 ; U ) . No objections having hitherto appeared in your valuable periodical to the view which I have offered of the resurrection of our Saviour , open a . s 1 am Hatched it is to free and candid discussion , 1 shall venture to proceed upon the principle thutpfro ? ji a state of total inanimation , he
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was raised to a spiritual and immortal existence , by advancing some observations , either arising out of that event s or Intimately connected with it , in its application to the human race in general , and as it tends to illustrate the conduct of the apostles in adopting it as the great subject of their preachings and representing it as the foundation of the Christian ' s hope and joy , the animating principle of his faith and obedience * To represent man , constituted aa he is at present , as wholly mortal , has been considered as an error of a most dangerous and fatal tendency ; amd were that mortality also regarded as final , it would undoubtedly operate as a dead weight on all religion and all exalted virtue . But if the evils of mortality and those of moral imperfection and turpitude be mutually conjoined , and both of temporary duration , though both be to be extended to many of our race in a future existence ; while our gracious Creator has
determined to confer immortality on our virtues alooe , such a view of his dispensations must surely be admitted to be infinitely more accordant with his acknowledged attributes , than the representation that an immortal existence may be alike the source either of happiness or misery to his creatures . It will be the object of the following remarks to shew that the former is the doctrine of the Scriptures , and that nothing can be more foreign from their true meaning and purport , or more directly opposite to the glorious promise of tlie gospel , than that a state of immortality should be a state of vice and misery . If it be true that the vital and
conscious being of Jesus was wholly suspended so long as the body continued inanimate , that when that was reanimated , every principle of life , perception ) , and consciousness was restored ; and that when that was translated to a spiritual and immortal state , those powers also underwent the same glorious translation , it -clearly follows that man is an homogeneous being , and that the changes which the body is to undergo will be tine indices of corresponding changes in the powers and faculties of the mind . It cannot , I think , be denied that the testimony is directed most strongly to tlie proof of this position in the : case ot Christ himself , and , if it appears that / its conscious existence was inseparably connected with his bodily organization , it will mot be questioned that the consciousness of every man must be an wholly dependant upon the same principle . Neither his friends nor his euc-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1830, page 862, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121830/page/62/
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