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mory and attention : but young and inexperienced preachers cannot omit them with equal safety ; and such persons are ready enough to defer , in this instance , to the supposed authority of their elders—Decipit exemplar * We presumenot to offer them
any advice of our own : we transcribe , however , that of the late celebrated Dr . Paley * : it is addressed to the younger clergy o £ the diocese of Carlisle :
€€ Disdain not the old fashion of dividing your sermons into heads : in the hands of a master this may be dispensed with : in your ' s a sermon which rejects these helps toperspicuity , will turn out a bewildered rhapsody , without aim or effect , order or conclusion . " The second , third s and fourth discourses are upon the state of the dead , " from 1 Cdr / Xv . 3 & « If , after the manner of inen , I have fought with beasts at Ephesus ^ 'what advantageth
tt me , if the dead rise not ? Let us eat and drink , for tomorrow we die . These Mr . K . had been solicited by his hearers to publish : and he promised to comply with their request ; fcut his rapidly increasing engagements soon put a stop to his preparations . ( Pref . v . )
It appears , from a passage in the fifst of this series of discourses , that Mr * K . considers his text as alluding to Paul ' s danger 6 f being torn in pieces / at Ephesus / by an enraged populace , fp . 36 , ) which we think the most probable interpretation of it . Out author , however , enters at once upon his subject , and , in opposition to those who infer man ' s immortality from the
nature of his soul , endeavours to shew that it is impossible for the mind to subsist without the body , and that all our hopes of a future life depend upon a resurrection . This opinion ^ unpopular as it is , has the sanction of many eminently pious and learned men , and particularly that of Luther ; it is agreeable also to present appearances and the light of nature j . but , what is far more important , it has the authority of scripture .
Whether the principle of thought in man be material or im-Jtoaterial , is not now the object of inquiry ; nor is it necessary to be ascertained . Certain it is that the appearances which take place at death , strongly favour the supposition that the mind ceases td live with the body . In the bod y there is them an absence of fc £ nsation and action ; in the mind , of thought ; and this surily is in both cases a proof of de ? uh . / Mr . KJs statement < A this fact may be regarded as an abstract of a wellknown arid doquent passage f in Mr . Joseph H&llet ' s Discourse
on the irnpiMbility of proving a future Hate by the light of natiirq . ^ * cl Three SermoQf , Ac /* pg . 58 » 39-f Dxctazsti ' j 8 u . Vol . I ro / *?*~ 4 tj .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1806, page 145, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1722/page/33/
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