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, . ** If his fortitirfe cantK > t be subdued by long and hard confinement , a more bitter cup of affliction remains : prepare thyself , 0 wretched man ! for the last effort of human malice : ior death , not in its ordinary forms , but with the most dreadful features which human natutfe can bear V *
We could wish that out limits-would aifaw of our placing before our readers the whole of this interesting representation , from the words , < c The prisoner is led from his cell /* &c » down to the end of the paragraph ( p ^ 265 , 266 . ) , But we have neither time nor room for the extract ; and it only rernaifrS just
to state one of Mr . K . s concluding observations ^ which isi that the ministers of the gospel have- been the principal promoters of persecution . Would to God that we could relate this accusation ! Unbelieving and unprincipled ^ statesmen , however ^ have been persecutors nearly as active and bitter as
priests of any denomination ; and in every denomination , alasj ihere are to be found pi tests . We do not employ ^ this word invidiously : we mean by it those religious teachers who affect to act as mediators between the people and the objects of their worship * + The thirty-sixth sermon was printed in the year 1199 , bu $ it
nei ^ cr before published : asserts " the future existence of iafants , " from John v . 28 ^ 29 . c f Marcel not . at this / ' Sec . and , whether we consider the singularity of the subject , the clearness of the reasoning , or the deep interest which every parent must feel in this conclusion , we cannot but thank the Editofr
infers that persons of every character ., of all generations , and of every age ( of life ) -, will be raised from the grave . We leave it to the reader . to weigh his arguments ^ only remarking that they carry as strong conviction to our own minds as is possible upon a subject about which revelation affoxds us no specific
for having given it a wider calculation than that which it first obtained , and for having caused it to appear in a form more likely to be permanent . * From our Lord ' s declaration in the above passage , Mr . K *
knowledge . In the thirty-seventh seniaon , our author endeavours to
estimate > the value of life , '' and Inquires into * the lawfulness of wishing it terminated , /* taking as his text 2 Cor . v . 4 . For we that are in this tabernacle , " &c . which he first elucidates .
and then proceeds to the consideration of his subject . According to Mr , K . life is valuable from its beijpga seasoji of enjoyment , of improvement , and of usefulness . To w ^ sl > that it were terminated , when God does not require such « jt c ? See Dr . Undsay ' s very afrle and eloquent Sermon on the Death erf Foiejfyce / y . & „
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1806, page 318, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1725/page/38/
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