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r - > , - other of the two characters before mentioned , it will , in the one ca $ ? , be irreconc 3 ! eable with just ideas of the divine equity , or in the other , vith repeated assurances contained in the Christian code ; unless the
Almighty exercise si constant miracle during the whole time intervening t-etween death and the resurrection , which that he will do we have no evidence whatsoever . The consequence , therefore , is , that the time between death and the resurrection will pass without any consciousness in the dead , and that as the tree falls , sp it will lie , and as death leaves , us , so judgment will find us . ¦ w .
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REMARKS ON THE APPELLATION OF " RATIOKAt ' "DXSSENTJERS . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
Sir , I am sorry that 1 was not able sooner to discharge the promise , which I made in my last , of furnishing you with some - further remarks on the Note taken from Dr . Magee ' s treatise on Atonement and Sacrifice ; but I hope that this communication will not yet be deemed too late , or too devoid of interest- to be
inserted , whenever you shall think proper * I refer for the Note , and the remarks on it , to No / xix . p . 358 , of your Repository . My present remarks are confined to the charge brought against the Unitarians in the latter part of the Note : ci From a feeling [[ modesty ] similar to that which has given birth to this denomination [ Unitarian ] they demand also to be distinguished from the other nonconformists by the appellation of Rational
Dissenters . " No false modesty , Mr * Editor ^ shall prevent me from acknowledging , that I ( speaking for myself individually ) do demand to be distinguished by the epithet of Rational not only ; from a large number of nonconformists , but also from the great body of orthodox Christians throughout the world , whether within or without the pale of any favoured establishment , And I am ready to make good my pretensions to this term as a distinguishing characteristic of the generality of Presbyterian
Dissenters , on , as with equal propriety they are sometimes called , Jsiheral Dissenters . But permit me first , Sir , in due form to advertise the readers of the profound doctor , that we arc not so very modest in our demand to be deemed rational , as to pronounce other" men or fTiristians destitute of rational faculties . This observation I kin reluctantly constrained to make fotidvrir verlh ; bccau . se .
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370 Remarks on the Jlppellation of cc Rational Dissenters . "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1807, page 570, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2386/page/6/
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