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SUPPLEMENT TO MR , rCENIlICK ' s SERMONS ON THE STATE OF THE DEAD . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir , If you think the following scriptural argument for the suspension of consciousness between death and the resurrection , worthy of a place in your Repository , you may insert it . It was drawn up as a supplement to the three sermons on the state of thedead , m the first volume of the excellent sermons of the Jate Rev . T \ Kenrick , LANDTERB .
1 . If man enjoy continued consciousness through the intervening time between death and the resurrection , he must grow better , or xoorse ox neither . 2 . That he should remain of exactly the same character , without the smallest alteration in the nature or degree of it , though he had the exercise of his mental faculties and affections during that interval , which his being in a state of consciousness would imply , is contrary to
all our experience and observation in the present state , and inconceivable without supposing , that the Deity will employ a perpetual miracle to prevent any change of character . 3 . That the Deity should naake use of a constant miracle for such purpose , is contrary to all reasoning , from analogy and from the nature of rnan und has no countenance whatsoever from the light of nature or of revelation .
4 , If a man ' s character should undergo a change during his existence in an intermediate state , it will be different in some respect or other at the close of that period from what it was at the
commencement . 5 . If at the end of that period find when the day of judgment is arrived ^ his character be different from what it was at the time of his death , and the sentence he then receives be one that is suited and pro * portioned to the character , with which he quitted the present life , it will be adapted to a character , which in nature , degree , or both , no longer exists , and the righteous Judge of mankind will not treat him stccording ; to what he tfien is .
6 . If on the other hand his sentence be adapted to his then present character , he will not receive the things clone in the body acccording to what he had done ychcther good or « -r « Y , which is contrary to express declarations in the New Testament . See Rom . ii . 6 . 2 Cor . v « IO . Gal . vi . 7 . Eph . vi . 8 , &c . &c . 7 . From the preceding articles it follows ^ that , whether the sen-« ace pa ^ secj on m ai \ at the judgment , be adapted tu the one or th £
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1807, page 569, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2386/page/5/
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