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eessarily be happy , and that he who was unhappy bare the punishment of his misdeeds , avhich punishment would be converted into a blessi n g as soon as he reformed from his evil doings . Some one of this sort seems to have written Job , for the plan of it is altogether in this spirit .
S . 30 . But daily experience could not confirm this belief , or the people who had such an experience would be inevitably prevented recognising and adopting the yet unfamiliar truth ; fortf the pious man were absolutely happy , and it also appertained to his felicity , that no fearful thoughts of death disturbed his tranquillity ; if he died aged and satiated with life , how £ ould he long for another existence ? And how meditate on
that for winch he did not long ? And if ike were not to meditate on it , who should do it ^ The villain who felt the punishment of his &vi \ deeds , amd cursing this life renounced so willingly all pretensions to another ? S . 31 . It was of much kss ^ moment , fhat here an Israelite
was found , who , because the law did &ot . directly refer to the immortality of the soul and a state of future retribution , therefore positively and expressly denied -it . The denying of a single person- —and were that one a Solomon- —could not
impede the progress of common sense , aud was even in itself a proof that the people had made a great advance towards truth ; for the few « ieny only what the many take into consideration ; and the taking of objects-into consideration * which before excited no interest , is the half way to knowledge . S . 32 . Let us also confess * . that it is an heroic obedience , to observe the laws of God -merely because they are God ' s laws , and not because he has now and then promised to reward the observation of them : to observe them , although they altogether despaired of the future . reward , and were not quite sure of the temporal one . S . 3 3 , Would not a people * educated to this heroic obedience towards God , be destined , and above all others peculiarly fitted , to execute his peculiar divine purposes ? Let the soldier who manifests already a blind obedience towards his commander , be further convinced of the wisdom of this commander ; and say what may not the commander venture to undertake with him ?
S . 34 . The Jewish people honoured its Jehovah still , rather as the mightiest than the wisest of all Gods , and rather feared than loved him as a jealous God ; and this serves too as a proof that the notioris they had conceived of their One Supreme God , were not precisely the just notions which we ought to have of God . But the time was now come when these notions were to be enlarged , ennobled , corrected , in which God made
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The Education of the Human Race . 411
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1806, page 417, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1727/page/25/
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