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Far fr ^ om it . ' . He , says , v , 52 , that it vvilj be when 6 c The trumpet slball sound and the dead shall bq : raised incorruptible , and we sh&ll be changed ; for this
corruptible" ( he adds ) " must put on incorruption , and this mortal must put on immortality , ' * and when this has taken place , " Then will be brought to pass the saying that is written , Death is swallowed
up in victory . * ' But will the Doctor contend that the righteous dead will not be raised , nor those that are alive changed , till after the general judgment and final restoration of the wicked from the punishment of the second death ?
This will not be contended . It therefore follows , that what is here said can have no relation to the second death , or to the restoration of the wicked from that
punishment . This passage therefore will not warrant the inference that is attempted to be drawn from it . Besides the resurrection to immortality here mentioned ,
caijoot refer to the wicked , because , as the Doctor expressly tells us , after this they will die again , it their punishment will terminate in death /'
A nother passage from which the Doctor infers the doctrine of Universal Restoration , is the 36 th verse of the same chapter . " Thou fool , that which thou sowest is npt quickened except it die . " His
argument , p . 17 J , is as follows u Being assured by revelation of a future state , the whole analogy of ijature ^ the changes ¦ thuJ : insects undergo ; the necessity of
rq % t , or reppse after labour , would lead us to infer , with a high de * gjreeofprobability , that death , wjt * cb is always in scripture represented as a sleep , was a natural
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and necessary process frbra a tmfftal to an immortal , from a cfe
ruptible to an incorruptible sfctte . The scripture more than intimate * this . Besides the expression of 4
St . Paul , Thou fool , that whrch
thou so west is not quickened except it die , ' our Lord assures us , that the righteous , who are admitted into his kingdom , shall die no more ; from which we may conclude , that the wicked will
die again . The whole of this argument rests upon a false and erroneous supposition , i . e . that there is something in the constitution of
man , some natural and inherent principle , like that in the seed
sown in the ground , which when he dies will necessarily tend TO , and produce a revivification : and that death is a natural and rietfesJ sary process from mortality to immortality ; frona which he infers , that by the same natural process , the second death as well as the first , will terminate in a
resurrection . But it is not true that there is any such principle in man ; that his resurrection will be effected by any natural cause ; but on the contrary , that it will be brought about by ifie mighty power of God , according to that energy of his power which he wrought in Christ when he
raised him from the dead . But the Doctor says , Death is represented as a sleep /* So it is , and so the apostle represents
it in this chapter , in a supposed ca $ e , in which , according to his reasoning , it would be aonihilation ; an * feternal sleep . lt If Christ be not raised /* h& says , u then they also which aye fallen asleep in Chri st are perished , *! th « y are lQ £ t , & >* ever- for if there is qo
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* Mr . Marsonfs Srvictures on Dr . E&ttiris Ditt § krs % 8 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1814, page 280, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2440/page/24/
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