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city , and mtfkt to be employed in sober discussion , ^ \ i At any rate , we can never think that the difficulty is to be got rid of ,, upon the principle which © r . Clarke assumes , when he contends thatthfi doetrine of
the death of the com , is a dogma * of the most correct philosophy , involving an undoubted physiological iiact , ^ Is it not a physical truth / ' aays theDoctor , ^ that the whole body of tiie grain dies , is con verted into fine earth , which forms the first nourishment of the
embryo plant , and prepares it to receive aflTOfiser support frotn the surrounding soil ; and that nothing lives but the germ which was included in this body , and which must die also , if it did not receive from the death or putrefoction of the body of the grain nourishment , so as to enable it to unfold itself V 9 '
Before the learned Doctor ventured to make such an assertion , would it not have been wise to watch the germination of at least a- single grain of wheat ? It would have shaken the
foundation , of the whole superstructure which he has thus hastily reared . For , in the first place , it is not a physical truth that the whole bod ; of the grain dies in the soil ; because the germ , which is a . part of the grain , does confessedly not die in tide soil ; and yet the . Doctor both affirms and denies this
position in the course of the above single sentence . Which then of the two contradictory assertions is the courteous reader to believe ? La , the second place , it is not , true that the part of the grain which may be said to die is
converted into fine earth ; because it has been ascertained , by repeated observation , that it is converted into a milk y and amylaceous fluidi fit for the nourishment of the tender germ . To moke the comparison complete , therefor a ,: either the whole of the human body should not die > or d ^ c ^ y in the grave ^ -for them should remcau a germ to spring * up into a new ; individual—or , hoth soul ; and body should- b& interred together ,, and ; then the soul will be the
germ required , if we ean , suppose it conftnable in the grave . N <* w * this * shocking * $ it ? wpy appear when ap ^ piled ffei ^ bmt * «[ | fimsto ? he : the very thing that Djc . Giarke supposes . For JUe add $ Kthat ** th ^ ugh th ^ i body of our i # 0 Td < U ^ i there ; wa ^ atilL the ^ mu , the q ^ toimg ^ poj ^ r of the divinily ^ which «^^ tm th ^ ttody , amlcHt « m ^ 6 dth ^^
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atonement ^ viA ^^ m 9 M . / Eioi leads to reflectionsperfaaf ^ fe ^ im to be expressed . Are we to suppose that the second person ^ of the Triaity , according ; to the orthodox ! b ^ ef , was
actually laid ux the grave at the uiter ment of tie body of Christ ; : he who i& said to be very Gcrf of v ^ yr Go ^ . he who is tiioug h * to h ^ re been the maker of the Wojdd ^? —^ K we were even to suppose this ^ fioaptossibuity , still the comparison is nolr eompletev For , to makeit complete , the body of Ghrist
ought to ha \^ e aaeen corruption in Hie grave , which it obviously did not " Thoui shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption /* Where then is the accuracy of the similitude ; or where the physiological fact that Dr .
Clarke &o strenuousl y contends for ? For my own , patt , I must confess that I cannot perceive it . The use that the Apostle Paul has made of the similitude of t&e grain m the fifteenth , chapter of 1 Gomntinans , though neariy the saane with ? the above , is periiapsless ^ objectionable , since the bodies : them alluded to ^ t decay ,
undoubtedly , in the grave ^ ^ as , the seed seemsi to do in the soil . Baaiatill the comparison is not compfe ^ lv b ^ catise thejpe ia no knowm or acknowledged geiin in the dead bodyv to grow up into a new individual ^ like the embryo
into a future plant , unless you suppose , what has been already suggested , that the whole many soul aad » body , ia confined in the prison of the grave , and lies there interred till the resurrectfen . Now this ia a supposition , that savours
too much of Raestley * s doctrine of Materialism , and denial of an intermediate state , to lire palatable to orthodox Christian ^ . Hence there is the same difficulty in both passages , which is to
be solved by the same e ^ hcatvwi > namely , that tiie expressions relative to the grain in the soil , as employed , whethen by Ghrist or by ) S t . ; Fa « l , txe tbj be regarded' aa exhibitirigr am idea suited to thd jaonceptioris ofemen , ra »
tiier than !; as : coBv ^ ingi : a strictly ^ h ^ - siological trnthiH-K this ¦ ejqposi ^ o ^ is objected to ^ , ¦ > If ^ tfeSik j tifiqerei ^ naa ^^ other resoifece butl that of & ^® && tha ^ ehristandi : con ^ qu ^ tlyy St Paul , were f not tlL&mseives ^ niiiiutely acqu ^ ted ^ to % thfe ym <^^ W ^^ tfi ^ n ^ any m ™ -ib& < Mto . 'J& !***!! msy ^ dBMgA ' tlnM 1 fear , is a supposiKon- ' that mlw
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1820, page 140, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2486/page/12/
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