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    * ¦ J « ff a hair of the head , is not the death of the body , no more can the dissolution of what is no more in proportion to the real man , than

    the hair is to the body , be the death of I he man ? The scriptures fully teach that man , whatever the term man rnay necessarily comprehend as to existence , actually dies , and that man will be raised from ttie dead . Th « advocates for

    the natural immortality of the soul , and its separate existence , ought to shew how man can die and yet not die , be dead and alive at the same ttmej I say many for the body is out of thd question , at lea ^ t in tlit ? present remark . 3 , Mr . Grove and others , while they maintained the above notion , not ; hesitating to say that *' man is mortal ^ that man dies , " only proves that learned and good men ^ misled by their own prejudices , have sometimes uttered contradictions without perceiving iU TJbe fact is , the natural morof

    tality ^ man , and the reality of his death , asman ^ i nte so plainly taugjit ill scripture , that those who have fevered the scriptures , have been * parnpellqd to admit that man is mortal and actually dies , even

    when they have held notions in * compatible . ^ i th these things ; but the assertion of things " which are contradictory diminishes nor the incompatibility © f such things with each other *

    4 . | " | certainly deny the doctrines ; of Jwq natures in man in general , and in Christ , on somewhat s } otflar grounds . ' * The scriptiju ^ teach the homogeneity ° f nia ^] iri general , knd speak of Christ ,,. $$ ^ Qne , individual bei ng ; &nd the homogeneity of man rs

    agreeable to reason and universal ob servation . No natural facts or

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    clear scripture declarations caii be brought to prove the contra ry * My worthy friend P * who has

    written against materialism , ( pp « 407 , 454 598 . ) means not to deny the homogeneity of man , though he differs from me in his opinion of the time when the future existence

    of those who die will commence * 5 . I intentionally omit the terms materialism and immaterialistn , because I am not sure that I knov * precisely what tho . se terms mean ; 1 attempt not a philosophical description of \ man ' s nature : but

    feel a conviction that scripti ^ re and observation prove that what * , ever his nature may be , he is 5 in his real person , mortal , and that as man , whatever the terrn may comprehend , he must die ; and that the gospel doctrine is , that as man he will be raised from thus

    dead . 6 . The Mosaic account teaches that the being formed of the dust became a living soul , by being inspired with the breath of life ; noE that a soul , as a separate being , was infused into v the organized frame . We can know nothing of

    man , as a living soul , without organs of perception . As to man's being soutfessS' while he continues to live here , be Jbas , or is , a

    living soul ; and when raised irom the dead he will have , qr be , a living soul ; consequently , I see no cause , on the ground which I take , to call him " soulless . ' *

    7 . As to man ' s complete nalii * ral , mortality being a cheerless doctrine , it certainly would > h& so , if we were without the hope « tf

    immortality ; l ^ ut , hayjng t that hojte , it is no longer cheerless : the chjristian can rejoice in the view of death and the grave , as a state of rest till the resurrection *

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    Mr . Wright on the Total Mortality of Man . fi £

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1811, page 715, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2423/page/11/