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    scious of it , but his disciples were also ; but we alsp are assured that his flesh and blood could not inherit the kingdom of heaven . When he was changed , whether in the tomb or at the time of

    the ascension , is of no consequence $ the objection of Cantabrigiensis ceases tb have force ^ unless he can shew # rat the flesh and blood of the body of Jesus inherited the kingdom of God .

    4 . Though the hypothesis of Dr . Watts may be , in part , a supposition to avoid a difficulty , yet to me it does appear that part of that supposition has . a very close analogy to the scriptures and what we know of nature .

    The language of the Doctor would certainly have been more correct had he said " We must ourselves rise at the last day for us to receive rewards and punishments , " instead of saying 4 t our bodies must rise" If the Doctor

    errs in saying " there may be , perhaps , some original fibres of each human body , ' * perhaps he does not err in the continuing sentence * " some stamina vitce or primaeval seeds of life , which may remain through all the

    stages of life * death and the grave . " In the present state of things , as Dr . Watts says , ** If there be any such constant and vital atoms , they are known to God only . " Yet man may conjecture whilst he keeps within the bounds of natural and revealed

    evidence . All nature makes known a distinction between body and life , whether it is in vegetable or animal union : as far as we know , and here man has extensive evidence , all life is a

    twofold production -y without the animating principle the ovum corrupts , with it life is the consequence : that whose origin is from two may be long combined together ; but as it was at first united , it must necessarily have connected with it a possibility of

    separation ; but in all living bodies we have something more , for we have a continual struggle between the energies of the vital principle and the tendency of matter to corruption ; corporeality being preserved alone in existence by ttrf ? energies of vitality . Nature itself dbes therefore demonstrate that man

    is not a one indivisible being aa it regards body and mind ; but that mind is the man , and the body is the organic instrument by which the mind obtains information and power to act *

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    Too many of the followers of Dr # Priestley , in the doctrine of the Mai terialism of the Mind , reason as ftiough organization and mind were the samebut nothing can be more distinct mind from infancy increases in knowledge and maturity to extreme old

    age , always feeling through the whole period accumulating evidence by memory of personal identity ; whereas the whole of corporeal organization is so constantly passing away that though the man recollects the occurrences that have happened to him for more than a century past , it is

    probable that not one particle of the matter that constitutes his organization is of more than ^ ten years' standing , and probably has not been one year a part of him . It is the confounding together the actor and the instrument that has confused this plain subject .

    Be not alarmed , Sir , I am not going to revive the now exploded system of the pfe-existence of the human mind , nor of its necessary immortality : neither to bring forward the spectres nor hobgoblins of past ages to terrify the nervous and alarm the fearful .

    With you , Sir , I believe that the beginning of life is the commencement , and that its earthly termination of existence is a stop to all consciousness till the great Creator has new clothed it with its etherial dress or habitation .

    In the mean . time , I trust sufficient has been said to prove the scripture resurrection is not improbable or incredible j and that it is a resurrection of that which alone can be called the man , and that the resurrection of Jesus is and ought to be sufficient evidence for us to act upon the expectation of our own future resurrection .

    If any of your correspondents wish to carry on this physiological research in connexion with scripture evidence and it meets your approbation to permit its continuance , it will give much p leasure to

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    14 $ Anecdote of a condemned Criminal .

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    Hackney * Fe b * 5 , 1816 . Sir , fTlHE following anecdote of a con * JL demned criminal , extracted from a late publication , entitled , " Letters

    from a Gentleman in the North ox Scotland / ' may not be unaccepta ble to your readers . " Then the ministers ofthetotf *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1816, page 142, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2450/page/14/