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ON THE EVIDENCE OF THE RESURRECTION.
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY AND REVIEW . NEW SERIES , No . LI .
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To the Editor . Sir , There may be nothing in the following considerations on the Evidence of the Resurrection , which has not been already and better stated by others ; but they have at least the merit of being a faithful transcript of the firm convictions of a mind that has reflected with much earnestness on the subject , In the humble hope that the language of deep and sincere belief may prove efficacious in some few instances to excite the attention and confirm the faith of the serious inquirer after truth , I submit them to the candid judginenc
or your reaaers . PHLLALETHES MANCUNIENSIS . What constitutes a Christian believer , in the strictest sense ? Simply reverencing the moral character and adopting the moral princi p les of Christ ? Or is the acknowledgment of his supernatural powers and divine authority indispensable to our properly assuming the appellation ? Christianity , in its indirect influences , has so generally improved and elevated the moral sentiments of mankind , that numbers partake of its spirit , and so far , we hope and believe , fulfil its intentions , who have not examined , or who do not admit the evidences of its miraculous origin : and this diffusion of its moral power , even amongst those who are unconscious of the obligation , is a fact in which every friend to the well-being and happiness of man must heartily rejoice . It cannot , however , be denied , that something more than this general sympathy with the moral tendencies of the gospel is distinctly required by the language of the New Testament , as the test of a proper belief in Christ . The apostles propagated by their preaching the religion which their Master had planted ; and their whole testimony bore directly on this one fact , that Christ , in the fulfilment of his divine mission , had risen
from the dead . Whoever admits their testimony in this essential point , is converted by their preaching and becomes a Christian . Whoever disputes or denies the fact , thus strongly and unanimously asserted by them , must
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MARCH , 1831 .
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VOL . V . M
On The Evidence Of The Resurrection.
ON THE EVIDENCE OF THE RESURRECTION .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1831, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2595/page/1/
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