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time * attended her , he was surprised to observe as the fever advanced , a develepcment of her mental powers ; during that period of fever when others were delirious , she was entirel y rational . She recognised in the
face of her medical attendant the son of her old master whom she had known so many years before , and she related many circumstances respecting his family and others , which had happened to herself in her early days , but alas 1 it was only the gleam of reason ;
as the fever abated , clouds again enveloped the mind ; she sunk into her former deplorable state and remained in it until her death , which happened a few years afterwards . " Here there is an instance of excitement of the
rational principle , by physical causes after it had to all appearance been for many years completely destroyed . — What would have rendered another
delirious restored her mental faculties ; she continues in the possession of memory , judgment , and all the qualities of mind while that excitement lasts , but when it ceases , she returns to her
former state of idiocy . Does not this case prove that , at least in the present life , the restoration as well as the loss of reason depends upon the peculiar circumstances attending the animal
machhie ? Apsychean body may have . animal life and be incapable of rationalily 5 and Paul calls a dead body by that name . We see in the case before cited that the apparently extinct nous ( mind ) may be restored
and again lost . Would not that mind be again restored if other circumstances were the same ? Now Paul says , that tlie body is raised a pneumatic body , not a psychean body ; not depending , as now , upon mere accidental circumstances for the preservation of the soul ; the essence , the excellence of human nature , which
we see continues to exist even in . an idiot , and which may be restored after many years perfect fatuity . The before- mentioned woman ' s memory , jud gment and understanding-, were as much in a state of death as if she had been dead in reality . And when these essentials of the rational soul
were restored , they were as much wised to life as if the person herself laa been raised out of the grave . Her Re ntal capacity was entirely preservj |« wring the whole time of her idiocy : . er consciousness depended upon an «< atemenf of a peculiar nature . The
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very idea of a spiritual body being raised implies , that it was before in existence , and that i ± was so . far affected by the common circumstances of our nature as to need a restoration of life and consciousness . But when Paul soys , " it is raised / ' &c ., I do not tliink he means to describe the
action , but the effect ; it is restored again to life . I think it is a restoration of consciousness , a return of all that constitutes the essence of the person ; and which , though lost for a time , continues entire and indivisible from the period of death to the moment when God shall raise the
dead according to the working of his mighty power , which he wrought in Christ . It was necessary that our Lord should rise in his natural psychean or animal body to satisfy his disciples of his identity- ; but the pneumatic body is capable of any form and confined to none : and to shew
that the life of Jesus was not supported by his animal frame , he appeared with his wounds ( one of them mortal ) open and uuhealed . There is a remarkable passage , 2 Cor . v . 16 , " Though we have known Christ after the flesh , yet henceforth know we
him no more j" that is , we consider the flesh , the animal organization , a subject not worth our attention . Christ died and rose again ; this is a reason why we should not regard the flesh . He is a spiritual being now : all that was mortal of the Son of God
is past and gone , his body the same in essence , is a glorious body : all things in that eternal state are become new j this is a reason why we should rise to God in newness of life , in likeness of his resurrection , as he was
raised by the glory of the lather . The flesh would only be an incumbrance in that state . "It is the spirit that quickencth : the flesh profiteth nothing . " You shall at the last day be restored to life by the power , to tfVEVUia . of God which now dwelleth in you . B . P . SEVERN-
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An Inquiry concerning the Lord ' s Supper . 571
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An Inquiry , whether the Lord's Supper was instituted for the Purpose of celebrating the Remembrance of the Death of Jesus Christ ? ( In a Letter to a Friend , August the Qth 9 ISlbJ FIOM my earliest theological life I have been seeking ( but .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1815, page 571, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1764/page/39/
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