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VINDICATION OF MR , CAPPEY DISCOURSES * To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . OJ Rj Feeling a high degree of veneration for the memory of the late Rev . N . Cappe , and deeplv impressed with the conviction
of the value and importance of the Discourses which his excellent widow , with a true regard to the interests of piety and virtue , lately gave to the world , I turned with eagerness to the € c Remarks on Mr . Cappe ' s Discourses / ' announced in the Table of Contents prefixed to the last number of your ] VIonthly Repository . I was apprehensive that some of the peculiar
opinions which Mr . Cappe is known to have held had been detected by some inquisitive eye , even in the midst of directions relating to the conduct of life , an d * had startled some one not much used to inquiries of such a nature , or wedded to some system with which these opinions might be discordant : but , upon reading the short communication to which I was referred
my only feeling was surprise that any one could so rashly advance the charge of being fanciful and mistaken against so respectable a writer , merely upon reading a review of his work , and that a letter of such a character should have found a place inthe Monthly Repository . For some time I felt disposed t& let it pass unnoticed ; but , upon further reflection , I began to
fear that the charge which had been so inconsiderately made by one might be as inconsiderately believed by others , and that the character of my much honoured friend might thus widely and wrongfully suffer . I therefore resolved to employ a few moments in endeavouring to correct the errors of your correspondent W . H .
The passage in the Review ( see M . Rep . vol . i . p . 97 . ) which has afforded this writer the ground of his charge ot * fancifulnes $ is no more than an epitome of the following , as it occurs ir * the original discourse : When from perceiving inthe persons ( i . £ . of the supposed gardener ) to whom she was speaking , some resemblance of her Lord , she was besrinninir to susoect that
* t might be himself , Jesus kindly converted that suspicion into certainty , and spake to her in a manner that left no doubt upon her mind that it was indeed her deliverer , her instructor ,, and her friend . The instant transition , from a state of inind
totally occupied and deeply impressed with the idea that her Lord was irrecoverably dead , to a state of indubitable persuasion that he was certainly alive again , might have been a change too great to have been supported . The abrupt and instantaneous discovery of himself might have overpowered a very tender heart and a very feeble fraaie . ~ In Mary ' s case , the agita-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1806, page 421, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1727/page/29/
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