individual belonging to this class, who can be said to have given the Scriptures a fair and deliberate examination; and intellectual unbelievers are what they are, for the most part, not because they have resigned themselves to the influence of a sound and comprehensive philosophy, but because they are too slightly acquainted with such a philosophy;-not in consequence of their having thought more accurately or more deeply than others, but in consequence of their not having thought with sufficient accuracy or sufficient depth. Seizing upon a few flimsy objections thrown in their way, at the outset of their enquiries, and not giving themselves the trouble to proceed further, or entertaining no suspicion but that the ideas presented to their minds in the first instance were right, and were the only ideas intended to be embraced; they rashly discard the whole system of revelation as a forgery, and make the sublime articles of our creed the themes of their ridicule and contempt. These remarks, we apprehend, are particularly true as it regards their sentiments repecting the resurrection; and hence it is only requisite for them to be appealed to in such language as that of our text; it is only requisite for them to be pressed with the enquiry, "Why should it be thought a thing incredible that God should raise the dead;"—it is only requisite for them to be called upon, as honest men, to look thoroughly into the answers to that enquiry with which they The following Discourses, delivered at the Monthly Meetings of the present Year, are already published. I. DR. J. PYE SMITH. On the Principles of Interpretation as applied to the Prophecies of Holy Scripture. 8vo. 2s. 6d. II. REV. JOSEPH FLETCHER, A. M. On the Attention due to Unfulfilled Prophecy. 8vo. 1s. 6d. III. REV. W. ORME. On the Character of the Present Dispensation. 8vo. 2s. IV. REV. WILLIAM BENGO' COLLYER, D. D. LL. D. &c. &c. 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It appears, therefore, to be the proper business of a Christian instructor and advocate, in attempting to handle this great subject, to give, In the First Place,-A SCRIPTURAL STATEMENT OF THE DOCTRINE; and, In the Second Place,-TO SHOW THAT THE DOCTRINE THUS UNDERSTOOD, SO FAR FROM BEING INCONSISTENT WITH REASON, DERIVES COUNTENANCE AND SUPPORT FROM SOME OF ITS STRONGEST SUGGESTIONS. Such, then, are the objects at which we shall aim in the following discourse. And, brethren and fathers, inasmuch as the preacher has not engaged in the task assigned him to-day, without a most humbling sense of inadequate qualification, nor yet, on the other hand, without frequent and fervent prayer for divine illumination and assistance, I trust, and I feel encouraged by the confident hope, that he will not be listened to, without an abundant exercise on your part, of the mingled sentiments of candour and devotion. In the First Place,-WE SHALL ENDEAVOUR TO STATE THE DOCTRINE AGREEABLY TO THE DE VELOPMENTS OF SCRIPTURE CONCERNING IT, AND TO EXPLAIN MORE PARTICULARLY WHAT IT IS, AND HOW IT IS TO BE REGARDED AS ONE OF THE PRINCIPLES OF THE CHRISTIAN SYSTEM. 1. Whether it was a doctrine generally received under the Jewish dispensation, and whether the influence which it exerted was extensive and powerful, are questions which we shall not attempt to discuss; but shall be content to remark, that there are passages occurring in the history of Job, and in the writings of Isaiah and Daniel, which appear to furnish unequivocal evidence of its having been recognized and maintained in the earliest, as well as in subsequent periods of the church, and of its having more or less animated the faith of God's people in all generations. "I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth; and though after my skin, worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see for myself; and mine eyes shall behold, and not another, though my reins be consumed within me." Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise; awake and sing ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is as the dew of |