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    of bis person eating , drinking , conversing , and ^> ven being handled and examined toy them , and after repeatedly witnessing his transformations from and to a state of invisibility , terminating in his visible ascent into heaven .

    either of , the reality of his resurrection in his own proper person , or of the glorious change which he had undergone * It would operate on their minds as a complete pledge and pattern of their own resurrection and glorious transformation . Nor was it

    necessary to this object that any part of the old body should be retained . The power who could thus preserve the same person under such different forms ,

    rendering him alternately what ,, in modern language , may be denominated matter and spirit , or visibly existent , and again apparently unexistent , though mentally present , could surely have produced

    precisely the same effect , although the old body had been suffered to moulder in its sepulchre . It was most manifest in this case , that hoth body and spirit are but the pure effects of the creative , and

    transforming efficacy of God—And we have substantial grounds for relying on the assurance of Christ , that all that are in their graves , or who have passed through this vale of mortality ,

    shall hear his voice and come forth , each appearing in his own proper person and character , and re . ceive the reward of the deeds done in this life ; they whose conduct

    has been generally upright and virtuous , and who have thus attained to a meetness for heavenly enjoyment , entering immediately on the fruition of immortality ; while those whose conduct has

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    marked the prevalent influence of this world in their minds , will even on their entrance on this renovated being , find the sentence of sin and of death still reigning in their members * T . B .

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    Vindication of the Dialogue on the Scriptures in Rtpjy to Mr . Sturch . . [ Continued from p . 653 . 3 In the course of his ^ aniirradver . sions , Mr . S . objects to thestrength of my expressions , such as ^ eternal misery * " , and so- forth . ] f Mr . S . hail been halfes familiar

    with the scriptures *; a £ 1 &ve him credit for being with , the pages of philosophy ? he would / perhaps , nqt hate raised this v objection . Bearing in , mind Mich passages as the followif ^ -rr ^ ^ Tbese > shall go away iatcv ^ v ^ rl astiag punfeb

    --raent : *>••—J * $ nto } h * ft \ ? 1 into > j the fij ? e that shall n <* v « r he quenctwd , where their woimdieth not ^ iod the fire is nat < jtiieQoteedtff 1 p * + b& » ing in his recollection * 'I > siay > these , and similar passages , Mr . S . would at least have allowed , that I had not gone farther than

    the gospel authorised me jtargo . He will not , I-rjaoiiawAJre ^ caKapive the sacred records as an autfatjpty from which there is no appeal ; this his general language niak « s very-evident- ; but I have yet to learn what degree of importan ce he is disposed to attach to them .

    One of three things * he ntfust allow ; either that they ; are altogether of divine origin ^ that they are paruaily so ; or thut they a ;« . .. . : ¦ - ¦ • • • . - o / - "¦ ' * M ^ tvx * v * 4 $ , ; f Mark ix . 43 . 44 »

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    7 SS Vindication of the Dialogue on the Scriptures

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1813, page 738, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2434/page/46/