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      pear extremely mysterious ; and the phrase spiritual body , may seem to express a contradiction . The disquisitions of Dr . Priestley have , however , thrown great light upon this subject ; but as I conceive he has not

      carried his principles in their application to the doctrine of a resurrection to tbeir full extent , I may on a future occasion be induced to trouble you with some additional remarks . Yours very respectfully ,

      T . P . P . S . Tn your copy of my former letter there is a typographical error ( T . B . instead of T . P . ) in the signature , which , however , I perceive , has not . misled your correspondent Credo .

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      shortly ** put off his tabernacle , ' and Paul , that himself and all Christians knew that if their earthly house of this tabernacle was dissolved /* they had a building of God ; hence , on this principle of consciousness , that their mind was inhabiting a tabernacle of clay , Christians were anxiously ' desiring to be clothed upon" with their spiritual covering ; for they well knew that whilst they were at home in the body , they were absent from the Lord . Corresponding with this view of the subject he writes , 1 Cor . xv . 37 , " Thou sowest not that body

      that shall bef' 38 , " But God giveth it a body as pleaseth him , and to every seed its own body . " The scripture therefore does not hold man to be one and indivisible as regards the body and mind ; but holds the mind to be the man , and the body to be his house , his tabernacle , his clothing . If therefore the whole body die , till it can be shewn that the mind also dies , a resurrection cannot be said to be improbable , but to such as knownot the power of God , and have not heard of his promises , nor exercise their minds to discern his wonders in creation , and the reviviscence of all

      nature . 2 . The next objection made by Cantabrigiensis is , that a creation is not a resurrection * , and that if a new creation is made from myself , many such may be made . But if the mind is the man , the new clothing of that mind is only a new creation of the clothing , but a resurrection of the man . And should that mind be divided , then the man would not be raised .

      3 . C . next objects to the resurrection of Jesus , that it is not any evidence to us , because his body was not corrupted or destroyed , as oura will be ; but this , like his former objection , falls to the ground , as it regards the resurrection of the dead taught by the apostles ; for they no where teach the resurrection of the body as it now is , but expressly asseri , " Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God j" that the living body at the coming of Christ shall be changed , that this " corruptible must put on incorruption , and this mortal must put on immortality . ' * We know that Jesus that was raised from the dead was the same Jesus as was crucified , ' not only he waa coir-

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      Sir , HA VING before [ p . 25 , ] stated my reasons for considering the letter of T- P . not to be an answer to the objections of Cantabrigiensis to

      the Christian ' s hope of a resurrection from the dead , according to my promise I now resume the subject with an intention of proving that the ^ doctrine of the Resurrection can be so

      explained , as to be understood and believed . Founded on his objections C , puts this question , " If the immortality of the soul wants support from scripture and the restoration of the same body involves in it a physical contradiction , how is the preservation of individual consciousness and the resurrection of

      the same man to be explained , understood or believed ? " Now the difficulty appears to me , not to be in the doctrine itself , but in the manner in which Cantabrigiensis considers the doctrine to be taught , for he " laments that the scripture evidence is in

      favour of a system which holds man to be one and indivisible and wholly mortal j" and it is on this ground that is put his first objection , " That if man wholly dies a resurrection does not appear to be within the bounds of probability / 1

      But scripture does not represent " Man to be one and indivisible : " for Jesus says , * ' Fear not them who kill the ( soma , the fleshly , organized ) body , but are not able to kill the

      ( psuxan , the desire , sensual ) mind , out rather fear him who is able to destroy both mind and body in the grave . Matt . x . 28 . Peter speaks ( 2 Pet . L 14 , ) of knowibg that he must

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1816, page 141, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2450/page/13/