Considerations respecting the recognition of friends in another world : on the affirmed descent of Jesus Christ into hell : on phrenology in connexion with the soul : and on the existence of a soul in brutes / by John Redman Coxe.

  • John Redman Coxe
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1845
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    minds uncontrolled by personal affliction, what it proves? think the reply must be, absolutely nothing of all it professes! All that is advanced is bare supposition, devoid of philoso- phical acumen, or logical precision, as I shall attempt to de- monstrate. In the preface we are told, that the design is to show the consonance of this doctrine with reason and Scripture, &c, so as to enable all to give a reason of the hope that is in them. Unquestionably this is an important desideratum, but one, we fear, the treatise in question will never enable us to perform. It does not pretend to have brought forward all the passages of Scripture which throw light upon this subject. If it has succeeded in making it appear that the belief of this doctrine is reasonable [it ought to be, if true!] in itself, and that the word of God allows us to indulge in it, the end will be attained.—Most assuredly; but should it be unfounded and erroneous, what then ? At p. 14, we are told, that of the precise nature of the happiness of the blessed, &c, we know very little; nor, with our limited faculties, could we probably comprehend them. Admitting this to be the case, why thus venture to place amongst these incomprehensible mysteries of a future state, the insignificant enjoyment of this mutable existence, derived from our personal recognition of friends here, when each day's experience proves that enjoyment to be clouded by family feuds, by interruption of friendship, and even of relationship, from motives of self-interest, of politics, and not unfrequently of religion itself, by which the most bitter enmity is awa- kened? With what happy associations of past feelings must not such friends and relatives meet each other in another world, if those feelings are of mortal mould ! What a blessing must their recognition prove, should they chance to meet in heaven! P. 15.—Subjects which Scripture has carefully concealed
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