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toy Peter ' s asseveration that Jesus had actually risen ? These three thousand proselytes we irray consider as secondary witnesses to the reality of that fact , who would fell to others tbeir wonderful relation , till men were inclined to examine
the gospel itself , and yield conviction from the excellency aad purity of its precepts . Thus it appears that there was a striking propriety in the stress which the apostles laid upon it is their discourses and their writings , even when speaking to the Oeutiles , ^ vho had oooe of the Jewish prejudices .
' * The resurrection of Christ , " he says , * ' I have long considered as the most forcible proof of his divine mission , it beina ; in the uature of proof that it be exhibited " It is the most forcible proof of his divine mission . C consider the resurrect ! on of our Saviour as the best authenticated event that has come down to us froiii distant times , and it is an
eveut confessedly miraculous . 1 he diviue mission of him who was the subject of it is unequivocally established . But how it is * ' iu . the nature of proof that it should be exhibited ., ' I do not see . ft was usefui ae an additional confirmation , but not a necessary part of the proof . All the other miracles recorded 'Were useful } but will any one say that the divine'mission of Jesus would have fatten to the gro * rod had he exhibited one fewer than he did ? If he had wrought but a
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Robert Greets row , E « q . 1829 . August 29 , at Bryntirion , near IVreocham , North TV ales , after a few days ' illness , at the -age of 72 , Robert Greenhow , Esq ., "formerly of Castle Lodge , Kenefal . Bom and educated near the latter place , * he engaged in the study of the ia < v ; but after « ooie years of application , tiaabk * 45 O reconcile ite intricacies with
hfci high ' stafctterd *> f Christian integrity , he relin < Juidbtd the pr <* tfessifvi ) , and jolii - ed trifa bVWtfhets hi eu e « teu » ivemanufactory in his 'tiatirfe town- A few years previous to his death , he reUaoved into Wales , -where be eoutiitutfd tois < aetive pursuits'till the close of life . Rductated among the strict Calviuistg , he supported the oawseof'the Independeht »« t f £ eiwfal with a-zeai atid » teatfin « 8 s peculiar to Ins chatraow **; but at ati * dv > auced period of
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single one lu dhe whote co « i »« e of hi « ministry , we shoofcj thebotmdAo baliere the , gospel as "ftr mly as » we klajmm , provided it were sufflciciitly auth * trtieatt » The Fesaifreetif ) ii wa » iweftri ; it answered valuable purposes ; but bfew it caw be said to be in the nature > of proof , when a
multitude of other proofs , " each perfedt in its kind , had been affbpdfed rl have ydt to learn ; and still more , how it belonged to the nature of the proof of our mimor talUy , when there U no similarity between outr exaltation to a future state df felicity and the resurrection and visible appearauee of Jesus
But , Mr . Editor , I am weanyit ^ r you and trespassing on your valoable columas I shall only beg , 4 < by way of finis ;** to present to A . E . my warmest thanks for the truly Christian nspirit in which he affects to doubt thesiucerity of iny * C ^ ri » tian belief . He may , for aught I know , be accustomed to consider hif * own views
as the standard of orthodoxy in matters of speculation ; but , for my owu-purt , € am of opinion there is often more true and lively faith in those who inquire ar » d thiuk for themselves , and believe S&rosn couviction , than in those who aditere implicitly to every thing that fcahit of education has instilled into them ;/ and until he cau shew better cause agafodt what has offended him , I must begy with due submission , to remain £ NQUIRER .
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life , after au anxious and careftil VnreirtU gdtion of the Scriptures , he gradually relinquished his former Tiewis ; atid having become ftrnaly convinced of the EWvine Unity , he successively embra «* d the opinions which necessarily spring from the endearing and consolatory views of the Divine character unfolded
in divine revelation . He supported what he believed to be the troth , with a liberality known to few ; and after their separation from the Calvinists , being anxious to promote the preaching of pure Christianity , lie ertcourflgied independence and vigorous exertion among his Unitarian brettifen , and , with a $ heerfalweas Belcfotti seen , -supplied lihefr delicietiries at' the expetiae'o'f t ^ ery cotwlder-3 * le pecuttfarr Bac ^ ttced . He con sidered it unreasonable to be hwrdensotnc to other « ocfeties , tuxfl ' tlionvht ffcat local
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Obituary . —Robert Greenhow ^ Esq . $ &&
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1829, page 885, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2579/page/69/
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