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swooning and the like , I should contend that the living , thinking principle had not departed , for we Know that after a certain time recovery is impossible . This may be applied to the cases of Lazarus
and of other persons who were raised from the dead . Or , as their resurrections were contrary to the usual order of things being a miraculous resurrection of their bodies for
special purposes , I can easily conceive that the Father of Spirits might suspend their consciousness the time their bodies were dead , or if their spirits went into Paradise , they might be called again to reanimate their bodies at the will of
their Creator . No believer in miracles can feel much difficulty on this subject . -At any rate , the resurrection of their organized bodies proves nothing with respect to ihe nature of the future life of
mankind in general . For the resurrection of the bodies of mankind is certainly not a scripture doctrine : even the materialist does not expect it and not believing in a soul , he supposes a transfer of feelings and habits to another system of matter : now this to me is
incomprehensible ; a transfer of the thinking principle with its feelings and habits , altogether , to a superior body , this I could understand ; but if man bp wholly dissipated at death , where are his
feelings and his habits ? Whatever taay be intended by the resurrection of mankind , their bodies seem entirely out of the question , " For flesh and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom of God , neither can Corruption inherit incorruption . " I cannot find that it is ever said in the N . T . that men ' s bodies will be raised . Great stress has been laid by the
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advocates for the interruption of human consciousness on the language of Christ in the 5 th and 6 th chapters of John , which is evidently figurative . The dead and those in their graves , chap , v , 25 , 28 , seem to mean the Jewish people , dead in sins , and in their graves of ignorance , prejudice and darkness : the resurrection seems to mean a new state of mind , which to those who were obedient to the calls of pro \ idence should issue in the preservation of their lives , amidst the calamities which should
overwhelm their country ; but to those who refused to hearken to them , should issue in their being doomed to take their share , in all the bitterness of the calamities that were hastening to involve their country . ( Matt . xxv . 10—13 ; Luke xiii . 25—30 . ) For a justification of this explanation of the passages , see Matt . iv . 16 . Luke i . 78 , 79 . John iii . 18—21 . compare Eph . ii * 1 . Isa , xxvi . lQ . and Deut . xxiit
with Hosea i , 2 . Ezek . xxxvii . is taken in a spiritual sense by the apostle , Rom . xi , 15 . Compare Eph . v . 14 . Dan . xii . 3 . John vk 44 . < c I will raise him
up at the last day / ' it is maintained by judicious critics , that the words should be translated 6 i 1 will exalt him hereafter , " and does not at all relate to death for in the whole chapter there is not the least mention of a resurrection
from the grave , for it is expressly said , that men shall not diey and that they shall live for ever , verses 50 , 51 . ( See Cappe ' s Dis . ) Such passages as They shall be recompensed at the resurrection of the just , " " A crown of righteousness which the Lord will give at that day / ' &c , have been thought by many to be decisive in support
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1811, page 599, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2421/page/23/
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