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expect to be exhibited within the usual course of nature , are such analogies as are at once compati- * ble with its necessary uniformity , and adapted to confirm our faith , both in the divine attributes in
to furnish the means of support , preservation , health , and enjoyment to life in general , are so many evidences , that these are the great ends of those dispensations , which at first sight appear most
aener&l , and in the probability of that particular application of them which will be necessary to effect the resurrection of mankind . Now it appears to me , that a variety of events of this kind are
presented to ournotice in . almost every department of nature . The dormancy of several species of animals , during that season of the year in which life must otherwise be wholly extinguished ; the instances which have occasionally occurred of a similar suspension , and subsequent restoration of the vital functions , in some individuals of our own
species ; the transformation of insects from a state of apparent death , to that of their highest degree of beiuity and activity ; the peculiar property of the polypus and some other insects ^ of the rapid production of young ones from the very parts- into which the parent was divided ; the very decay and death of vegetation , furnishing : the seeds of future increase ; , the tendency even of death and of putrefaction itself ,
inconsistent with them . The manifestation of the divine energies which they afford , have so strong a resemblance to those which must be made in effecting a resurrection from death , that it is
scarcel y possible that the ideas should not be frequently connected in the reflecting mind , nor consequently that they should not co-operate in the promotion of its faith in that great event . I do not pretend to assert that the above considerations are of themselves sufficient to impart a general conviction , if they would even suggest the idea , of the
Christian doctrine of a resurrection of the human race at the last day . But they appear to me adapted to shew its admirable consistency with the actjual condition and circumstances of mankind in the present state , and consequently to confirm our faith in that most glorious event , when once it has been satisfactorily revealed , 1 am , Sir , Your ' s , verv respectfully , T . P .
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Vlans submitted to the Southern Unitarian Society * 480
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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository *
Jirl j / 5 , 1810 . Siu . At the last Annual Meeting of the Southern Unitarian Society , at Poole , in Dorsetshire , the two following plans were -offered to the
consideration of the members pre «* sent , and unanimously approved . The first plan was , to have given in to the Secretary , in order to be published and distributed , with tb ' e-Hst ' of members , rules , &c «
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PLANS SUBMITTED TO THE SOUTHERN UNITARIAN SOCIETY .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1810, page 489, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2409/page/17/
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