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It is just as reasonablete suppose that the life of the man who die * does not became extinct ,, but exists elsewhere , as it is cto suppose that the soul x : an exist efeewhere , wh ^ n the body to which it belonged is destroyed . Instances of suspended and recovered animation shew , that the soul remains in the body when if
the vital functions ha ^ re ecased and for one hour , why not for any number of hours that may be imagined ? If ? . moreover , when the bod y Qf a , good mandies ^ the , soul tak $ s its flight to a place of happiness ,, it ^^ t ^ of ^ our ^ e ^ be recalled when tlie bo- * dy is restored . / Qn-. this principle then i ^ feat favour was shewu . to Lazarus , and to those other virtuous pe ^ san ^ whom Je ^ us ^ Christ raised ? fram the dead ? And if they vver-e not in the
ordinary state of the . dead , there was no miracle in bringing theni to life again ; far their recovery , so far as we can see , might be ag ^ eeahle to the course of nature . > El ijah ' s prayer | br the-widow ' s son , cc Let this chiljd ' s soul co ^ e int o him agaip V is no objection * Soid signifies very frequently the life : > that it does so here , is evident from the event * :
The scriptures nmke no distinction between the body that dies and the soul whicl * is supposed to survive : they speak of the xvhole man as sleeping at death ; and though to call death ? sleep is ~ po more than a figure or metaphor ^ yet it is a figure \ vhich would Rfurdly have bfeen used if it had been applicable only the rn
to a part of the man , and i ^ f iiadr the nobler and better part * were more wakeful and active at death than before . Nor \ v a ^ it th , e C j lo . ctrine of Christ and bis Apostles that the souj surviv ; es the body , Recording to the modern notion . On the contrary , they describe the rj . ghteou ? and wicked as separated fronx cuich other , nQt at' ^ ealh feut at the day of j ^ d guient , or the time oJFtI ] Le resurrectiQn Qf the dead , and their rewards pr
punishments as only conupejQGiDg at that period : they ground ^ indeed ^ all p rospect of rewards ^ tud punishments solely tipopL th , e resurrection of tjie < lea 4 : the language of Paul upon this last arguiXi . ept in 1 -Cor . XV , is the strongest possible ; and he com-. iprts tho ^ e Christians at Tbessalonica , who were bereaved of
their friei \ ds by death , not with the assurance of an interniediate state of happiness ^ but "with the hope of a resurrection . Ijn the second diseouf se of this series , ( the third of the first voluipe ) Mr . K . exaniiues those few passages in sdjfipture which are supposed to countenance the 4 0 Ctrine that thej $ oul survives the body and Kyes in a separate state . Ecclesiastes xiu ' 7 . < c Then shall the dust return to the e < jirth as it was , and the Spirit to God that gave it . ' TI Kinfis ^ pril M . %% .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1806, page 146, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1722/page/34/
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