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coincides with that of the immaterialists , that if the term be but changed , their definition of mind
will be the same . He defines it , a material atom , u indivisible , unchangeable and immortal ;' they , an immaterial atom , indivisible , unchangeable and immortal .
Beside , this atom must , I conceive , be elementary and consequently , either oxygen , nitro - gen , hydrogen or carbon ; but tinless the Deity remove it after
the death of the body out of our present sj'stem , it -will require an almost perpetual miracle to pre-\ ent its forming new combinations .
Again , Mr . Parkes seems to infer , ( vide supplemental number , p . 715 , ) that it can think and act independently of organs ; but if so , of what use will be those glorified bodies , which we are told we are to have at the resurrection ? From these considerations ,, I
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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
March 9 , 1810 . sin , After several papers , which have appeared in your Repository , to account for the decline of
Presbyterian congregations , the writers of which have ascribed it to various different causes , I observe one in your last „ number signed W . W , which attributes it to the deviation of the Presbyterian ministers from the Calvinistic
doctrines , which have obtained the name of orthodox and evangelical . Whatever degree of influence this may have had in particular places ^ I cannot believe that this is the grand and . general
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, " . On the Decline of Presbyterian Congregations . 123
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cannot but think , that Mr . Parkes ' s material atom , like the immaterial one of the hylorists , is
purely a creature of the imagination , suggested probably to remove the obstacles of identity and the resurrection . lam , Sir , Vour ' s , &c .
JAMES WOODHAM . P . S . I am disposed to think ,, that Mr . Parkes labours under an error respecting the historian of the << < Decline and Fall . ' If Mr .
Parkes will take the trouble to turn again to his immortal work , and peruse what precedes his quotation , he will find , that Mr . Gibbon is expressing the
sentiments of others , not his own , on tfie probability of a future state of rewards and punishments ; and those sentiments drawn , not from the unscriptural doctrine of the resurrection of the body , but from the Platonic notion of the immortality of the soul .
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OX THE DECLINE OF PRESBYTERIAN COJSGREGATIONS *
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cause of the evil , for two reasons . The first is , that in various instances congregations have continued in a very flourishing state ^ and even increased , where nothing
of Calvinism has been preached . No body will suppose , that Dr . Foster was a Calvinist , and yet he was one of the most popular preachers in his day . His lecture at the Old Jewry was crowded to the last . And where was there a
larger audience to be seen than that at the same place , in the time of the late Mr , Fawcett ? Dr . Fordyce had very little of Calvinism about him , and yet he raised the congregation at Monk well Street
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1810, page 123, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2402/page/19/
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