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ingi Which was the apostolic doctrine , cannot surely be nothing more than anew creation . Willingly would I believe in Dr . Watts ' s hypothesis ( if indeed it . were any thing more than a play of fancy ) of an indestructible
germ of matter , being the nucleus of the regenerated man , were it not altogether a gratuitous supposition to evade a difficulty . "Since / 1 says the Dr . ( Logic * P . i . c . 6 , § 6 " . Observ . 5 . ) " our own bodies must rise at the last
day for us to receive rewards or punishments in them , there may be perhaps borne originalJibrts of each human body , some stamina vitoe or primeval seeds of life , which may remain unchanged through ail the stages of life ,
death , and the grave ; these may become the springs and principles ofa resurrection , and sufficient to denominate it the same body . But , * ' he adds , * if ' there be any such constant and viral atoms
which distinguish every hum&n body , they are known to God only . * Unsupported as this hypothesis JSj and therefore unphiloso .
phicai a * it is for a ground of argument , Dr . Priestley , if I remember right , and some of his disciples , seem willing to iefer to itforthe principle of individuation .
The immortality of the soul may want support from scripture ^ and the ri'surrectioi ) of the same body may involve a physical contradiction , but how , pn the modern doctrine generally received by Unitariaiis , can we explain or understand or believe in the preservation of individual
consciousness , and the resurrection of tae frame man ? - * CANTABRIGIENSIS .
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Family Bible . Sir , I am pleased that yourcorre * spondent A Bible Christian , ( p . 3 78 ) has turned the attention of
your readers to a Family Bible with notes , and hope that the recommendation will be attended to . With rational notes , a judicious commentary , and practical reflections , such a work would be
of inestimable value in Unitarian families ; nor can it be doubted lhat the undertaker , if competent to the task , would meet with ample encouragement . But it is desirable that the plan of the woik should be well discussed in your
pages before it is entered upon ; this will be a likely way to avoid the errors into which preceding commentators have fallen , and to render the publication generally acceptable . As the commencement of such discussion , I beg to
solicit from your correspondents some account of the following Family Bibles , viz . Goadby $ y in folio ; the Birmingham Bible , in 4 to , said to have been put ouC under the sanction of Dr . Priestley ; and the Quaker Bible , edited , if I remember rightly , by Purvcs ; and an } ' others not on the Trinitarian and Calvinistic scheme , JNIy inquiries extend to the number of volumes and editions , to * the editors , to the text adopted * , and its typographical correctness ^ to the justness of the translation ^ if a new one , to the plan of the commentary or notes * to the
quality of these , and generally to whatever affects the value of sucix a work . I aip , Sir , EPISOOttJS .
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Family Bible . 44 p
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1813, page 449, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2430/page/25/
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