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. poison the sfcr * jams of divine truth , and jNTomote an ^ npiversal scepticism in matters of be ^ ef /' To such persoBs as Mr , 'VVilsop * I should use tne words of Dr . Harwood , in his Funeral ' Sermon for Dr . Taylor : Let those wfeose Christian principles could teach them to abuse mm , and
deny him salvation , heap upon his rnejnorv all the execrations that enthu-* iasin can very religiously and piously utter . Let them spurn his ash . es ancl insult over hts grave with the same ridiculous- wild ness , the same frantic
postures , and the same low : revenge , as it is weH known some of them did over Cf r . James Foster ' s after his interment . Such treatment now can no more affect his happiness , than it ever affected Jiis aiguments . He now
en-J oys a calm undisturbed repose , under the protection and guardianship of him , who has the keys of death , and tlteAumsillc world ,: and in the morning of the / resurrection , when those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake , wift rise from the ruins of the grave , thefest in immortal glory , splendour an 4 blessedness , " x am . Sir .
Your's , ^ E ^^ CbJ ^ JV / Vr Mechanism ,-an Allegory . rCooduded from p . 350 / j - Section II . IjS the mfan tiqae the Genius so orderea it , that wbiie the mists » of illusion cpjatinu ^ d to accumulate on
preside t > f tjw horizon , the beams of light beg ? tn to ( break in from the opposite h ^ niifiphcre . Some of the operators 1 K > w began to rouse out of their Jetjiatzy , and to resume the use of their fKcuiti «« . An ^ honest 'spirited fellow , who w ^ s >» o | . ^ l lqgether averse to his
employ mei 3 ^ , ^ # 4 , had luckily discovered m j ooipy of the original instructions ^ l ^ an to profest stoutly Against the gamful traae of the managers ; and by qegreed discovered that the ; « up $ rabun ^ an 4 > blessi ngs which they pretended ^ dispense , pn certain ternis ,
tv ^ d po j £$ f 8 £ ence but in their crafty ic ^ i ^ in ^ Qon !! . The mist , however , CQntmiHpMp be so gr ^ at , that he could br no fn ^ im di ^ ting ^ ah between ' the j femm ^ n 4 i tit * tim ' mnnt Opemtor with mhomJmktd bkkiapo strangely cofi ftwrHtad * im * oOiildfhedUtinotly t ^ to jeaAr *^ 4 > ook of ^ fttructjpns . But
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that the machines , ^ b ^ n ^ vonioat ^ d broken > lost th ^ ij activ ity , thopia L cpuld not « Jives £ hiip ^ ejf pf iKe ^ tea that tneir e ^ senczs renaained T ^ t conclusion did away at once th ^ w tensions of the m ^ age rs j but the Admission that these essences rei ^ ai ^ j indestrcrctih ^ e , though their actipn \ vas suspended , proved the fruitful spurce of numerous errors , . 1 his notion tyum directly opposedto tne purpQrt of the promise , tnat the machioes . having been destroyed would be-reconstructed led to conclusions no * less opposed to it It was supposed that they would V > e
recalled to action and retain their activity , amid the coatinuei faryof the most intense flames , sei-y u ^ g but as the instruments of Jth ^ ir vioience . It was even believed tnat the language in the instructions , which plamly .
expressed the tempoi-ary deslruclion ouhe machines , piirporteq ^ tjbeir conlim ( ed action , in vomi ^ in ' ig ii ^ cessai ^ t Qap ^ es upon their respective operators j and also that all of * hem except ^ iie . v ^ ry first that had been made , were for tjne single offenq $ of that operator , of wbipb rs
all the Ptf ^ er qperatow ere wholly unconscip ^ , constructed for this very purpose . ( i So far did nawiy ^> f tb § m carry this per ^ siJiasipTi , that they thought it . the height of presumption to expect th ^ leqst be nefi c ial effects , by any
exertions ^ , or attention tp the ins , trucUOjns of the <^ eo i v * s > pf yv ^ hipl ^/ they ivere ; capable . Jpoth hik * x $$ / ch \ n £ s and tis lnstructiQns ^ p ^ c #£ i $ f * te t \ ieir Ufcas , tverq the very ifajeapQ < Ot bei ^ g useful : nov did th ^ j think / tti ^ cpald be , better em ployed , than in making 9 } roj ^ g protestations th ^ at trv ^ y . w ^ e , vik mstj ^ ments , fi $ ; for ^ p othing , but niischi ? f » and that it vyas impossible for tkp » ^
do any real go ^ d > rh ^ teyc ? r w ^ WflRj and therefore tljaj . they liqped ^ h ^ ^ W be pleased efttbrqty jo change . pfei structureiiandj xno ^ eoyer , ao tp ovp ( rnf l « and direct all tfreir own oper ^ tUp »» # that th ^ y would in jfiiture stpw ^ r 4 ° ^ nothing biAt perpetiiisj ben ^ fitB ujg > D themselves , whatever might -hptb ^ ip ^ of tl > e gr « at ipajority of their WfflP '
niqns . This kind of thngpaB ? £ W considered as * pres&iye ^ f prpPf ^ **" po $ itipnjB in th ^ ipr ^ nc ^ oC libe ^^^ and ftuph ati h ^ wptjld be very nWj !^ reyra ^ d in j ^ t je »^^ # na ry ^ np ^ j o ^ y motft ep \ xm * & * n % fflapn ^ r ^ fW ^ Wi « Hpte 5 ted . U migbt , fe ^ re Men Wg hm « iwy , wmd ^ pk m ** L Ahcy yW
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1816, page 452, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2455/page/16/
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