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They would neither have imagined nor invented the tale of an appearance of an angei descending from heaven , rolling away the stone , which it was their office to preserve undisturbed , causing the Jbody to elude their sight , which it was their duty either to keep secured , or at least to give an accurate account of the circumstances and the state in which it
was at its removal ; and inspiring them with such alarm , by his aspect alone , as . not only deprived them of their martial prowess , but reduced them almost to the state of dead men ! It was not incumbent upon them to specify what they did not observe ; but had they observed the
body or person of Jesus , it would have been their first duty , and their first en * deavour , after having failed to retain it in the sepulchre , to have stated all that fell under their notice respecting him ,. Had they witnessed the removal of the body in an inanimate state , this fact would have been almost sufficient to have
outweighed all that the apostles could afterwards have advanced to prove that it was restored to life ; and still less could they in that case have succeeded in the proof that it had undergone a transformation to a spiritual and immortal state . Had the watchmen beheld him coming out alive from his sepulchre , it
would have afterwards been highly reasonable to expect that he should be seen by many others , both friends and enemies , and the circumstance of his not being seen by any of his enemies , would have ill corresponded with that of his leaving thesepulchre in a visible form . The soldiers must have been more disposed to have given some account of the person or body of Jesus , and the circumstances of
his removal or departure , than to have invented a tale about a being in human form , whom no one had seen before or beheld afterwards , overcoming and defeating them in every respect , so that they were not only prevented from keeping the object of their charge in security , but from giving any account whatever how or in what state it had disappeared . This could have been no invention of
theirs ; it may even be safely asserted that so singular an event could , never have suggested itself to any person , as that of the translation of a dead body to an invisible spirit . It had probably never been witnessed or thought of iu any former instance ; and yet , most tucredible and unsatisfactory as such an account as this must have appeared , it seems to have been received and credited by the Jewish Sanhedrim before whom the re-
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port of the watchmen was brought , that an angel from heaven had appeared , and Jesus had disappeared from their view ^ and totally eluded their observation * Now , this statement entirely coincides with the additional statement that from this time forward he was not seen but
on extraordinary occasions , similar to those on which celestial spirits are recorded to have made their appearance , and especially to those which are related in connexion with the disappearance and subsequent appearances of Jesus *
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General Baptist Acndemy Library * To the Editor . Sir , Though the pages of the Monthly Repository , from its commencement ,
have been in the practice of recording an account of the annual meetings of the General Baptists , as furnished by different correspondents , yet there are few , perhaps , besides the body , who see the published proceedings of the Assembly in detail .
For this reason I beg permission to state , that at the end of those for 1828 , there is given for the first time a list of books belonging to the Academy of this denomination , now under the able super intendence of the Rev . B . Mardon , M . A .,
Pentonville . " It has been thought desirable to print this list that persons friendly to the object may know in what books it consists , and may as they please present to it any other books of which it is deficient . "
At that time it was comparatively small , and several of these odd volumes ; it has since received an augmentation by purchases effected from the sale of those of the late Rev . Thomas Belsham , and by the donations of certain individuals for this purpose . It is , however , I perceive , yet wanting in several works connected with scripture criticism and history , &c , so every way desirable to the theological student .
I make this mention , believing that to many of your readers it needs only be known to induce them from their literary stores to enrich the Institution ] , which would be acceptable in any degree , if authors , op the publication of their works , would present copies of the same , they would give a permanence to their productions , and , what is above ail , prove themselves not merely the friends of their own time , but of posterity . Such a wbh was expressed a few years
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Miscellaneous Correspondence . 471
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1830, page 471, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2586/page/39/
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