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one single consideration prevailed over all these . That the Creator and Governor of the Universe ^ whom it is my duty to tuoi'ship and adorey being the God of truth , it must be disagreeable to him to profess , subscribe and declare in any matter relating to his worship and se : vice what is not believed to be strictly true .
Thus , my Lord I have presumed to represent to you the state of my mind . And now I fear I must take my leave of your lordship . Suffer me then to do it with assuring you , that I am with all gratitude , esteem , respect and affection , My dear good Lord , Your Lo . dshij ' s most dutiful , and most obedient humble servant ,
W . ROBERTSON . << I am quite at a loss what I shall say ta my g tod Lord Primate . * If your lordship will please to make my most grateful acknowledgments to him you will oblige me much .
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Heligious Division of the World . Sir , In a Sermon by Dr . E . Calamy , entitled * ' Divine Mercy exalted , or Free Grace in its Glory , " published in 1703 , I find the following passage , p . 22 * , . " 4
C Some that pretend to have made an exact calculation , do ob . serve , that if the earth , as far as it is at this day known , were divided into thirty equal parts , nineteen of them are Pagan , six Mahometan , and but five Christian *"
Has there been any later calculation on this very interesting subject ? I fear , on the ground of modern discoveries , a much larger proportion of the woAd must now be given to the Pagans . OTIOSUS .
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Difficulties in the Doctrine of a Resurrection . Sir , It has long appeared to me that the balance of scriptural evidence
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is in favour of that system whicfr holds man to be one and indivisi , ble , and wholly mortal—an Hypothesis with which natural appearances agree . But I have been sometimes ready to lament that I have been constrained to
incline to this opinion , not only as it obliges me to expect that a large * portion of time , which might be filled up by happy coxtm
scious existence , will be lost in the grave , but also as it taRes away from my mind the only visible means of the preservation of my consciousness for another
state of being . If I die wholly , a resurrection appears scarcely within the bounds of possibility * There may be a new creation , but can the regenerated being be myself ? Would not the alfow .
ance of this be an admission that any indefinite dumber of beings might be myself ? If therd be nothing to constitute my individuality but the will and power of the Creator , I seem redubed la
the absurdity of thinking that my consciousness may be conferred upon any number of created forms * The resurrection of Christ is
scarcely the case in point that our good Unitarian divines represent it : his body was never broken up , corrupted , and dissipated * He rose , and must in the nature of things have risen , in the same
body in which he died . Here is no difficulty , A rriiracle is all that is required , and the Creatbr can inspire the body wfth nesvr life ; but if the body bfe gorle , and
irrecoverably gone , ana there be nothing but body , what do w * mean by a resurrection ? Th « anastasisy the standing up again of the * am e visible , conscious be «
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448 Difficulties in the Doctrine of a Resurrection *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1813, page 448, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2430/page/24/
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