The Freethinking Christians' Quarterly Register

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: shall cease from troubling, and where each shall be judged according to his works done in the flesh, whether they have been good, or whether they have been evil. Signed on behalf of the whole by the Elder, London, July 1822. THE RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD OPPOSED TO THE DOCTRINE OF THE IMMORTALITY OF THE...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: shall cease from troubling, and where each shall be judged according to his works done in the flesh, whether they have been good, or whether they have been evil. Signed on behalf of the whole by the Elder, London, July 1822. THE RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD OPPOSED TO THE DOCTRINE OF THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. To establish the positions that the resurrection from the dead is peculiarly the doctrine of the gospel; and an immaterial, self-existent principle in man, called a soul, is the offspring of heathenism and infidelity is the object of the present and succeeding Essays: a design which may be esteemed bold?perhaps irreligious?but certainly second to few in interest to mankind, and in an especial degree important to the believer in revelation. I approach the subject, therefore, anxious to do justice to the truly philosophical and Christian system of the oneness? the materiality of man; in opposition to the ////philosophical and heathen hypothesis of man being composed of two principles, which possess no qualities in common: the one material and incapable of thought, or even of life, the other immaterial and naturally immortal. I propose examining this subject under five divisions: ? First, The history of the doctrine of an immortal soul; from which it will appear that this popular and falsely-called Christian doctrine arose naturally out of the speculations, at once of the savage and the philosopher, when unaided by divine assistance, and that it is entirely unknown to Christianity. Secondly, To prove that the immortal soul of the modern immaterialist is a substance or a shadow of no settled qualities; that these persons support a system not merely differing from their heathen model, but that the immortal soul, as explained and defined by each separate...