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tion occasioned by so violent an impression ipight have renewed the derangement of her ideas , ^ and brought back a . total alienation of mind * To Mary , then ^ how striking and
engaging must this tenderness have been ! and when once she had become capable of reflecting upon it , what an improvement of her joy in the conviction that her , Lord was risen from the dead . "—( Cappe ' s Discourses , pp , 235 , 236 , )
Such is the reflection for which W * KL has been pleased to say there is no foundation , Mr- Cappe , however , knew better . He was too well acquainted with the history of the'human mind , and too well informed of the facts which the history of its derangements has recorded , not to be well assured that the danger which he described in the case of Marv Magdalene was real , and not the mere suggestion of his own imagination .
* ' But the miracles of Jesus / ' says your correspondent , " were not like the temporary aids of medical men ^ nor to be represented as upon a level with them . When he healed a disorder , the work was completely done , it never inofe visited the afflicted . " Here is indeed * a fanciful observation . " This truly is ** . a reflection for which there is no foundation / ' Upon what ground will W . H . venture to maintain that the mother of Peter ' s wife never more lay sick bf a fever after Jesus had once stood over her , and rebuked that disorder ? that the limbs of
the man of Capernaum , who was with so much faith letdown from the roof of the hotise in which Jesus was teaching , never more , through the fatal influence of palsy , forgot their accustomed powers ? or that the child of the Galilean -noblenitm gVew up to manhood , or attained to a good old age , a stranger to disease
and pain ? With equal reason might it be asserted , that the five thousand whose hunger was miraculously relieved in the desert felt no more the cravings of appetite ; that the widow ' s son of Nain , once restored to life , died no more : and that
Lazarus of Bethany , once released from the confinement of the tomb , reposed not there again in silence and forgetfulne ' ss . It is readily acknowledged that " if there had been any danger of a relapse , the same power which at first restored Marv IVJa ^ -
dalene to her right mind could and would have restored her once more . " But who perceives not that it was an act ; of greater kindness not to expose her to the danger even of a n&omentary alienation of mind . " *
What W . H . calls an oversight , in the position that Mary Magdalene first saw the Lord in the presence of her associates , was , on the contrary , the result of deep reflection * Mr . Cappe was accustomed not to make the slightest allusion to any thing relating to the'Christian Scriptures upon which he had not . bestowed the fullest investigation . The " oversight ' in thi § case — ——
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422 Vindication of Mr . Cappe r s Discoursed .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1806, page 422, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1727/page/30/
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