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meaning : and upon this ground , should the Jotters be reprinted , he will alter what he has written upon that subject . His design is not to detract from any man ' s character : nor does his cause require
it . It needs no misrepresentation to shew how the bishop exerts all the energies of his mighty mind , nil his powers of learning , of reasoning and of language , to extricate himself from the fatal
embarrassment into which he is plunged , by placing too great confidence in the reveries of Mosheim : and how all these energies are exerted in vain , and he is obliged in the end to withdraw from the field , baffled , defeated and silenced . Nor is any
thing requisite but a simple detail of factSj to expose the temerity of the worthy prebendary , who knowing little either of the scope or of the state of the controversy ,, runs a muck at all he meets , and in his fiious zeal to protect his venerable
father , sometimes jostles him and knocks him down , and at pther limes heroically encounters windmills for giants , sometimes exciting compassion and sometimes derision : but ; never doing harm to any one but himself .
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Mr * Platts ' s Complaint of Evangelical Magazine . Boston , July 8 , 1813 . Sir , * A few weeks since I published a pamphlet , entiled Reflections on
Materialism y Immatcriahsm , an Intermediate State n the Sleep of thG Souly and the Resurrection of the Body , being an Attempt to Prove that the Resurrection com * mencts at Death . If any light could possibly be thrown upon a
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subject so intricate , and at the same time so important as the doctrine of a future state confessedly is to all mankind , I conceived it might be useful to the pilgrims who are travelling to a " better conn .
try , * of every name and of every denomination ; for , however Chris , tians may differ in other respects , they all agree in the belief of a future life . Under these impressions , 1 sent an advertisement of
my book to be inserted on the % v rapper of the Evangelical Magazine , when , behold , they refused to insert it , and on my application for an explanation they also refused to assign the reason of their conduct . I mean not to
make any harsh remarks on the partial and uncandid conduct of these self-named evangelical Christians , I merely state the facty and
leave every one to draw what inferences he pleases from the case . My book was not intended to give offence to any serious Christjan : it is the result of much re .
flection ; and , whatever may be thought of the opinions it contains , I trust it is written in that spirit of humility and charity which will never be a disgrace to a sincere enquirer after truth . Yours , &c . JOHN PLATTS .
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A Quere * Sir , June 15 th , 1813 . If in some darker day , a sect were to arise ^ which instead of addressing prayer in the only
scriptural mode , shouM , in various parts of their liturgy , however otherwise unexceptionable , worship God , not through Jesus Christ , or in his name , but through or in the name of the Humanity ,
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454 Mr . Platts ^ s Complaint of Evangelical Magazine . — AQuerc ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1813, page 454, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2430/page/30/
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