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    perspicuously , on the momentous subject of a future life . " What will be the precise nature and extent of the felicity which is destined for the virtuous , in the world to come ,

    it is not given to us to understand ; nor perhaps , in the present state of our faculties could we be made to apprehend . But thus much appears obvious , that when this mortal shall put on immortality ; when that frame which now naturally tends to dissolution , shall

    become incapable of decay , and the powers of the mind shaU exist in the vigour which must be the necessary concomitant of a Being who shall never die ; our perceptions must be far more strong- and

    vividi than in this state of infirmity and death . —On the subject of the ftiture condition of man , the imagination should not be allowed too free a range , and conjecture should be sparingly indulged , but

    it appears neither impossible nor improbable , that the pleasures of which an immortal being shall be capable may

    be such as man in his present condition : could no more experience than he can comprehend . And it may not improperly be remarked that a change , much less than that of mortal into immortal

    might add most essentially to bur capacities of happiness , and greatly increase both the number and intensity of our enjoyments . We seem to observe that a difference , perhaps in itself inconsiderable , in the . constitution of this frail and

    perishable body , causes one man ' s pleasures to be much more refined and exquisite than those of another ; and even opens sources of delight to some , to which others are altogether strangers . How , then , may our powers of enjoyment be enlarged , when a frame which has in its very essence the seeds of death , shall

    be exchanged for a nature that will never die !—Should any one be apprehensive lest this expansion of the human faculties should be inconsistent with the preservation of personal identity , he need only be reminded , that a Newton was once a child . " Pp . jr—33 .

    Art . IV . The Sin and Folly of Cruelty to Brute Animals ; a Sermon By Thomas Moore . I 2 mo , pp . 28 . pd . Belcher , Birmingham Johnson , London *

    This able defence of the rights of the brute creation , we should wish to see distributed by the society at Liverpool , for the purpose of preventing cruelty , and other similar societies . It would

    also form a very useful , if not acceptable , present to young persons , whose minds cannot be coo early or too deeply imbued with a spirit of humanity .

    Aitr . V . The Conciliatory Address of Abraham to Lot : a Sermon preached at the Baptist Monthly Association , at Mr . Bradley ' s Meeting House , Hackney , March 22 , 1 S 10 . By Thomas Hutchings . 8 vo , pp . 26 ; Gale and Curtis .

    This is evidently the composition of a thinking man ; but we notice it chiefly on account of the liberal sentiments which it contains ; which we are glad to see .

    by the request 6 ( its publication , were acceptable to the preacher ' s own denomination , the Calvinistic Baptists , and which cannot be too much enforced on any denomina-.

    tion . The following extracts will justify our encomium ; «* When controversy can be avoided consistent with holding faith and a good conscience , it is well - If however , we are called to maintain the truth of the

    gospel , against those whose sentiments are of an erroneous stamp , let us not * like the madman described by Solomon , cast about the fiiebrands , arrows and death of ungenerous imputations , irritating invectives and damnatory anathe-

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    Review . —Moore ' s Sermon on Cruelty . 4 u 7

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1810, page 407, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2407/page/31/