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    when , after having drawn such a frightfully distorted |> Tcture of Christianity , he could only ro usc ^ to exclaim , * How absurd and inefficient ^ according to this scheme , is the mission of Jfesus J ** A < ccord - in" to what scheme ? Is it not the

    scheme , or rather tjhfe bejlief of « very sect among Christians , that the general tendency and ultimate issue of all things will be good ?—jLet the church theii , jf she adjnires him , cherish , her hero , but let him not > cafl himself the

    champion of Christianity , Perhaps the foregoing observations mav enable % s better to estimate his Sth point of irrcttionqi doctrine , said to he held by the Unitarians ; ** that man , although

    purely material , shall be raised from the dead . " Here again he t > etrays unpardonable prejudice , or unconceivable ignorance , or a concentrated mixture of the two , 5 n taking the opinions of a few for the . doctrines of all . He has

    received his castagation fcrom Mr , Belsham , aad we cannot leave Iiim in better hand * . —The believers in the doctrine of mate ,. rialism , probably bear the thunder of this attack , without display . They have spoken , and , without doubt , will still continue to

    speak for themselves ; and xi pe-Tusal of what they have written would probably do no material injury to the metaphysical intellect of our zealous cjiur-cfimpji . But surely , he cannot expect , a jnitre or a stall for allowing his

    ; zeal to impugn the declaration of the apostle Paul , that " this corruptible must put on incorrupdon ., and this mortal must put on immortality , ** and that , though " sown a natural body , it shall be jfTOsed a spiritual body . ' * : —Your

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    correspondent is probably one of those who maintain the reality of ghosts and apparitions , . and imagine that departed spirits tire flitting about like birds in the aerial

    regions ; that the soul while on earth , has been miserably incarcerated in a filthy lump of heavy disgusting clay ; and that not a particle of such vile stuff will be raised again to life ; or if a few atoms of it should be borrowed ,

    in order to form a vehicle for the immortal spirit , it will not in any respect resemble the * ' glori - ous body of Jesus , ** bu t t will perhaps , become a ; rou : pd ball or a cubical die- —But , lest it should be discovered that He is

    attack-Ing one of the fundamental doctrines of the Christian church , this crafty polemic , after telling us , ** that reason would stand aghast at tke doctrine , that the scattered fragments of a child of

    two months old , and * ' ( mirahile dictu !) cc also of an old man of six ty ^ shall be raised and restored to consciousness /* end ^ eavour > tp sfieatlae all the poison of his SfCrpt $ eis * n by assuring * as , that in reasoning thus ) w ? takes the

    simple materiality of the human body for granted . But before he tri ^ umphs in jthe ingenuity of his shadowy distinction , he must aK \ ow us to ask him , ( whatever may be his notions concerning the

    rair > d ) what he imagines is to be * come of jthe body ? aud whether ^ upon any hypothesis , the reformation of a conscious organ * ized being , while the materials are still in existence , ( although

    doubtless in other forms , and applied for a time toother purposes , ) is a work of greater difficulty than the original creation of man ? and if be wishes to know how thi * c / y |

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    1 Casti < rator y s Answer to the Churchman . «* . 4 lft ° ¦ . .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1808, page 419, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2395/page/19/