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    hy Unitarians ^ tliey do believe , sis they are ^ supposed tb believe , fn the immateriality of God . ' " That , therefore , those that we think tS fee de-ad , should live again , according to this notion of spiritual * - ity , involves nothing * at which reason revolts , corrtrad'icts nothing which experience establishes as a truth . But that a child , who has lived two months here , should , after its fragments have been

    scattered by the four winds , arid passed into the bodies of hundreds cf animals , after the lapse of fen thousand years , in which its consciousness has been destroyed , be collected together again into one

    mass , its identity entire , to live and act in another world , is £ supposition , taking its simple materiality for granted , at which rea - son stands aghast , and with which

    fancy itself is utterly confounded . Suppose a like event to happen tro a man who has lived here sixty years , the unreasonableness arid improbability of'the thing are not lessened . And the unreias ^ ohaMc ? - ness and improbability increase ^ if we take into th& account trie

    necessity of human , * actions , as held by Unitarians , which establishes , as we have before remark - ed the ciivine dispensation to be simply a dispensation of pleasure and pain . Wfaat then in plain language is the Unitarian doctrine on this head ? God has created

    man a material and necessary agent , to live a few iio . urs , a fe \ v days , or a few years , to Jtnow pic&sure and p&in in this world . } and for the salrhe object , he icyii ' l , afte ! r des ; dr 6 yin& Hjs coiiscibus ' e'k ' - isfeneey feariimaite him arid rrifrk ' e fotfn "iminort ^ In another # 6 * fd O ; tiut'ter s ^ evil ; isHo ^ fe d ^ irtroy ^ rf iti % WotMr ^ v < tiW ll ^ V tttt l

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    § Wer that ih a dispens ' atiDn of simple' pleasure : arid pairi , that evil wjiiidh toulct not be ; prevented in this \ vdrldy cannot in that whicl ^ is tb ' come ; ' The Deity has . cer , - tainly as much power of prevent , ing evil or sufferirig ( for the evil bf the Unitarians is nothing more

    tharf suffering or pam ) in this as inany other world . Or , is he complete master and almighty there , and bTily ail impotent deity here ? No ! if the materiality of man and the necessity of his actions be established , reason tells us that he

    can be designed only for this life His' powers , of which he is now Conscious , are adapter ! to the present scene and system 6 f things But , ' We We told , he , can

    contemplate the Deity ! But is this agree - able , to fact ? He contempiates only what he Khbw& ^ . '\ and is it riot universally " allowedi even by Unitarians , tiiat th ' e Deity , is yet to mkri perfectly incornprehensible ? Hbw theri cilri man con

    template the Deity ? Neither can he ever , according tb' tKe ^ material system ^ comprehend' any thing of God , feVeriin ariothef world . He dan nfever have any ideas but such as ha receives thrbngh the senses , and if this be tru ^ , he never can have any idea even of the nattire

    of God , for who ever received , through the medium of the senses , an idea of spirit ? In fact , According to the Unitarian philosophers , t : he consciousness of mart ; 'is the

    j ^ uVe Effect of organisation ; that , th ^ jre fo hb , destroyed , his conscious existence beri ^ hes , knd the pt * c-^ rVa ! ti 6 ri ^ l hi ^ 'l ( Je « thy dftefr this , iPHf -be n ^ t '' i ^ ' 1 ^^ m % ^ -y'ihG ittdit 1 iFhVeitsbri ^ l ^ 1 $ ' * & ¦* $$$ & *? t fWki * AWa ^ v hV ^ ao ^ to ^ hrefasdria 6 te ^ 'i MbtWrl * " << Fbr"M mtfotiUUe ) ¥ >* i W r ^ se Wb tttivWfc ^ y

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1808, page 190, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2391/page/18/