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ner in his Letters . Thai zealous " partizan of the Catholics apes indeed the length of asserting , * especiihg this biill ^ (|) J 212 ) tfctat ** only one person in their whole number , John Felton , is known to have approved of it . * ' This is marvellous considering the
deference to the personal authority of the Pope then entertained , at least , among the vulgar . It is to be regretted that such a fair enquirer as Dr . Geddes had not examined this question in his Modest Apology .
The influence of this ill-advised measure on the condition of the Catholics , through the remainder of tlizabcth ^ s reign , with a short view of the sufferings endured by Puritans and Unitarians , during the same period must be reserved io anotWr letter . R . G . S .
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Difficulties in the Doctrine of a Resurrection . Maidsibne , Oct . 8 , 1813 . Suy It is necessaril y " by a slow process tliat the human mind
advances in the discovery of the one infinite Cause of the universe . Dlft ^ fs truth t cannot but think , that the extreme difficulty which
is still felt by the student in Christian theology , concerning the possibility of a resurrection , by the sole energy of the Deity , affords a somewhat striking attestation .
** If I die wholly , says your correspondept Cantabrigitfnsis , " a resurrection appears scarcely with , in the bounds of possibility . *" Now if there be , properly speak . ibg , one , and but one , absolute eternal Cause ; if the cfeatiire be the simple entire result of the ^ Vol . Vill . p . 448 , 4 * 9 .
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infinite power W and intelligence O ^> ¥ w ? $ } m wliich b ^ gi ^ tp , exist , exi& ^ Jb ^ t aX tfie'J pure effect of a bartlpuylir mode " of operatipn of to ^ itifiuite Cause ^ as the stream ¥ proceeds wholly from its fountain ; theja surely it must be equally possible
to restore any particular being , or modification of being , after it has been absolutely withdrawn , or suspended for any period , at it was absolutely to prpduce it in the first instance , and to continue its existence unifbrrply . for any
term . An „ absolut e l y dependant being , owes it ^ pVeserv ^| ion to the constant continuance of that particular operatine energy by which it vfSLS prpducfq * if its mode of operation be clian ^ d , the creature , which 1 * . me pure result of that operation , m ^ istsnsthe ? Pf ^ 9 gi ^? SS M $ p suspended , the creature , wnacn i *
the effect , must \ vBoITy cease ; ana if it pe renewed jn f [) re £ i ? elj tlie saixife' minn ^ r / precisely th « same created effect must result from the operation : arid no
reason appeaW w ^ By the same bxact operation cannqt be fe ^ ewed , a » well , as originally ' ^ xcU £ il 9 continued and suspended ^ ty the infinite Operator . is
This general reasoning re . markably confirmed" { hy the ac * tual history of the hitman mind in this state . If by the immortality of the soul be meant the continued , uninterrupted existence of the mind , or of the operations of
thought and itsatfectibns , in . v * W cB sense alohe ah ^ distihet ^ * can be annexed t 6 the £ li rasef nothing can be more ^^^ JL our constant experietfee . Tfc * mind , or fectilty of perdeptlotif w noiformly Bunpco ^ iea , U \ Wf , & *
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734 + Difficulties in the Doctrine of a Resurrection *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1813, page 734, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2434/page/42/
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