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panel the moment when they return to life ( will appear to them contiguous . ¦ . , : \ yhich of the two schemes is the wiser one , it rpay be difficult to judge , and is scarcely modest to pronounce . Hie opU . pion defended in tjie preceding discourses is at least recommended by its simplicity , and agreement with present appearances ; while that of an intermediate state is plainly inconsistent with
those principles of justice by which the Divine Being professes to be governed in distributing future rewards $ n < l punishments * On this scheme , virtuous men who died in the beginning of the world j will haye acquired a portion of good , which it is impos * sible for the moderns , with superior advantages and the best efforts , to attain ; and among tne wicked the man who dies first suffers most .
Adcl ^ b these considerations that of the different manner in which men will be affected with the prospect of seeing their friends again , on these two different systems \ in the one case , there is suspense ; in the other ^ pleasing expectation IJnder this expectation , the religious parent will be able to say to his children and friends , when he comes to clie , no sooner shall
I have closed my eyes upon you in this world than I shall open them upon you jn the next / Blut if he think that the soul survives the bod y ^ he must say , € < I comfort myself with the hope of seeing you again : but some of you arcyoung and in the prime pf life ; and it gives me no small pain to consider that it may be many years before I see you again , and that all this time must be spent in anxious suspense .
* Were the doctrme ot an intermediate state discarded , the foundation of many pernicious errors would be destroyed j as , for example—* 1 . The vulgar superstition about the ghosts or spirits pf the dead haunting the world .
2 . The popish doctrine of the invocation of saints , and that of purgatory . * 3 . Alienation of mind from Christianity , and unbelief in it . •* *~ € < It must appear to all who have not been led to think differently fcy education , tnat the whole roan dies togeth er . Many feel therefore an invincible objection to the Christian revelation , which , they apprehend , maintains the contrary , and it would go far to conciliate their regard to shew th $ trthe Scriptures , properly interpreted , contain no such aoctrine . ' '" . ' . '
Mr . K . concludes by representing the supreme value which should be see upon the gospel : for the . gospel alone assures us of \\ xe resarrectioti of the dead ; that event on which depend all our Jiopes of a future life . This consideration also proves the high
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Kenrick ' s Sermons . 149
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1806, page 149, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1722/page/37/
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