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was " that mortality" itself u was swallowed up of life . " It was under this impression , viz , that of associating the future state
with the present , that they were led so uniformly to represent " the day of the Lord" as being " nigh at hand ; " and as desiring " to depart and to be with Christ . " The date of the immortal inheritance
upon this hypothesis , commences at the close of the mortal ; so that departed Christians are soinetirpes represented as those who 44 inherit the promises . " Lastly . The doctrine of simple materialism , has been countenanced and supported by the
most eminent Christian philosophers . The great Mr . Locke , who considered matter as possessing some solid properties , did nevertheless admit the possibility of its being rendered perceptible . The solidity of matter has usually been considered by immaterialists as an argument which at once
demonstrates the absurdit } 7 of Mr . Locke ' s concession : they of course , in their attempts to define spirit and to distinguish it-from matter , have divested it of every property in common with it : but how two
such heterogeneous substances can act upon each other , is a circumstance , altogether inexplicable ;
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Whig / ' that belonged to the late Mr . Town * cnd , but in tjie Biog . Brit , it is said generall y in / thtf article u Chandler , " that the doc tor wrote 4 < about fifty papers in that work / ' The whole consists of only pp . 103 . Nos . 33 and 39 , were written by Mr . Jackson
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whilst on the other hand , the difficulties arising from the hypothesis of matter being made the subject of thought , have been wholly removed , by that first of Chris *
tian philosophers , the late Rev * Dr . Priestley . The doctor , in his Disquisitions , has introduced
a laroje field of reasoning blended with just observation upon these subjects . He has proved the immaterial doctrine to be of pagan origin , though like every other doctrine , which is the offspring of the imagination , it has
undergone various changes and refinements , —the French unbelievers have the credit of refining it the most effectually ! Dr . Priestley has demonstrated by argument and experiment , the insolidity and penetrability of matter ; by these means , he has removed a ** stone of stumbling" out of the
way of the immaterialists , and has done much in aid of the scriptural philosophy of man . The suffrage of such a man as the Dr . in favour of simple materialism ,
will certainly have its weight with , the reasoning class of Christians ; and as to those who . decry reason ^ we cannot expect that they will ever make any proper use of it . Leicester , " STEVESUS .
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ANSWERS TO THE INQCTIREJU
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Answers to the Inquirer . 651
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Nov . 3 , 1808 . M . Ropos . vol . iii . p . 559 . The sermon alluded to , on Prov . xiv . 24 . was probably , by the Rev . William Salisbury , lice lor of IVIoreton and Halingbury , in Essex ; published J 773 . P . 559 . I have not the copy of " the Old
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1808, page 651, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2399/page/15/
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