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bablg because it is rational , consistent wit ^ i the nature of man , and thetefore CFedibley contents himself by elpsipg a long metaphysical argument , wttii asking wfoy the same God who first created and has now intervened
to suspend existence , cannot alter and reorganize ? But the question ptrf by C . remains unanswered . It ? -was not what Almighty power could do , but as a reason for his after question he asserts the resurrection of the same man to be improbable , and wants it to be so explained that it may be understood and believed .
2 . The next difficulty of G . is , that if the Deity creates him anew from any part of himself , and that part partakes of the conscious identity of bis present state of existence , he might also equally -well create from the large remainder of himself , man y other individual beings , all of whom would 4 iave the same consciousness of
identity ; -and that , after all , such new creation would not be a resurrection . I Jiave too good an opinion of the understanding ipf C , though known to me only by his letter , to suppose Ithat he can be satisfied with the vague and laboured answer of T . P . He had sufficient evidence in nature
to have shewn that the future life must be a resurrection of the one man that died , and if that one man was divided it was no longer a resurection ; instead of which , as in the former difficulty , he cuts the knot by a reference to the creative power of God ; that creative power which increased the widow '? oil and multiplied the bread and fish in the hands of Jesus .
His argument and illustration go to shew tliat because God has'the powjer ' . to multiply individuality with conscious identity to each part , therefore ^ he wil , l not exercise it . 3 . CL next asserts , that the
resuri $ ctiqn of Jesus , his body never having been by corruption broken up and separated , is not a case in point , ours be ^ ng a re-creation , -tut his a resurrectipn . to this T . P . replies by endeavouring to prove that they are in all points alike ; but as his
argu-. ment contradicts the scriptures wh ^ ch JfecfPiJ Qnjy tne resurrection of Jesus * s an evidence of the divine capability and ^ i manifestation of the diviqe intention to raise arid judge mankind . T , P ^ appears to me in this also to Mff lP whxlt od that his scriptural
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¦ VT * ' quotations are foreign to the subject * and some of them demand evidence of his having justly applied them , particularly the spirituality and in
visibility of Jesus prior to his ascension * 4 . Lastly , C . asserts that the hypothesis © f Dr . Watts , * ' That each human being may have some stamina vitce or primaeval seeds of life" is but an hypothesis to get rid of a difficulty : whether it be so or not , I will
endeavour to examine in my next , should this letter meet with your approbation . 1 shall then endeavour to shew that the difficulties Cantabrigiensis has brought forward are not insurmountable , and
that though the resurrection of the same body does involve in it many absurdities as well as contradiction * , yet the resurrection of the man and the preservation of his individual consciousness accords with nature as well
as scripture , and though it cannot be demonstrated it may be so explained as to be undertood and believed . CREDO .
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< _ _ Tenterdetiy Dec . 7 , 1815 . Sir , OPENING the last number of your valuable Repository , accidentally at the 902 d page ; the name of Mr .
Soame Jenyhs met my eye . With your respectable correspondent , Mr * Rutt , I also am old enough to have in perfect recollection the interest ex ^ cited by the above-mentioned gentleman ' s view of the internal evidence of
the Christian religion * The different opinions entertained of the writer are also in my recollection ; not . a few considering it as a covert attack on Christianity itself . I confess myself
to have been strongly tempted , at the time , * to entertain this latter opinion . But that patriotism is not A CShristian virtue , is one of those posi- * tive assertions which appears to md to be totally destitute of proo £
-It is with pleasure admitted , that there is an almost irresistible charm in a spirit of universal benevolence . Actuated by it we resemble our Creator in his most glorious attribute ; id his disinterested , inexhaustible and everlasting goodness : nor do I conceive there to be any thing i neon sis * tent with this , in a pure and
generous love t 6 oiir country . ' If ever there was k . true . patriot , Jesus Christ was that person . * Ji * public inijaistr ^ * rafr principMll ) r & $ *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1816, page 27, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2448/page/27/
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