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Jwyc KV ** l ^ o W ^ work ^ n their oW » # pommg t > efore therp with similar cotnp laints » 4 p ^ expecting to be rewarded ever ftfter " with the lijce libexality , without any further exertions on tkeir part . They were intent onl y on obtaining deliverance from this 1 inagfoary calamity / and concluded that flie great . business of thjat operator , whom thfey confounded with the Genius himself , was to effect this deliverance ; by making the essence of his
macUi n ^ ' while * t was m tne act ° f being broken to pieces , to discharge its fury so po > verfullyujpon his own person , that the misery which it inflicted upon him , would compensate for that of as many of the sufferers as he thought fit ; while tfi ^ res t , for no other purpose than his own pleasure or g lory , would he left tne ceaseless victims of their mischief working machines . In consequence J of this strange cprnpensation , the essences of the machines of the
chosen few were supposed to sustain the total change desired , and ever after to work iti such a . manner , ^ as would no less inevitabl y shower down immense ttesings ujSpii them ; so that from this time forward , they would have little to < lo , but to hymn praises to the Genius , and to pipe perpetual songs of joy and rejoicing , while their unfortunate
companions were incessantl y uttering the most dreadful groans arid shrieks , from the agonizing sufferings to which they would be ' devoted ! In all this there wai » little to eiicburqge the operators in the sober pursuit of their employment , or to cultivate in their minds a proper sense of their obligations to their great Benefactor . His gracious promise c * f the future re-fabrication of their machines , was little understood or attended
to ; arid the dreadful circumstances , kotK real and iniaginary , attending the Dr ^ jhang to pieces of tne distinguished O ^ rator ' s machine , though an" event common to the whplq system of niechanism , was much more the subject of attention and triumph , on account fif the supposed ' pf l ^ litulwn ^ than those tf iUf gloriousre-construction , thoug h j ^ Was the / onlv pattern which iia $ l b ^ i * presen ted of those improved \ 1 \ 2 \ - c W »? f wbich were hereafter to V > c PW $ } io tjbe Muds T of the operators for *« ru 9 e . , TM daw , Ivow ^ ver , wai Advancing , ! H $ ** of tU ^ insttuotiop 3 written !? n jfev ^ ijfP ^ f ™ f . ] AOw fwhr ^ fc ^ t # circwVa iea < anil thoi # i
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the root of the evil * was npt very sooa detected , yet many or its princirxd branches w ^ ere By decrees looped off ! It was indeed long before the gre&t body of the operators fountl proper opportunities 6 f thinking and acting fojr themselves ^ and th ose wiio w ere employed as their guides , were too apt to throw obstacles in the way of their exertions and discoveries . Some of
them even endeavoured to obstruct the free circulation of the instructions , aad ? The \ yrjter cannot help conceiving" that the doctrine of the immortality jof the soul lies at the foundation of theological error . It appears to deny the reality of man ' s priimtive doom , " dust thou art , and unto dust shalt thou return ;* ' since it maintains
the uninterrupted existence of the perceptive , conscious principle , without which roan is indeed dust , but with which alone be may be said to be pure intelligence . It fabricates a new dooui for him of a very different nature , viz . that he is destined t& live and m / ffer the must exquisite torments amidflames to all eternity . It provides . ft
new deliverance from this new calamity , by representing the mind of the man Jesus , not merely as a ray of divine intelligence , according to the more modest conceptions of the heathens , but as the infinite Intelligence itself ; and then maintaining that this infinite nature underwent , in its sufferings on the cross , all the miseries , which the immortal souls of the elect were
destined to undergo in hell , as a substitute for those miseries . Thus this doctrine is continually amusing the majority of its votaries , with different natures , different destinies , and different deliverances from those about which the Scriptures . are' conversant . Without this persuasion , it is
highly probable , that the idea of a God * man , of endless torments , and of the infinite Deity suffering in lieu of some of the rayp of his immortal uaiure , with the change of nature ^ arising from the infusion of the Holy GJiQSt , a third person in the God-head would never have entered into the human
mind . Admit that the whoiu man " rc- > tu 7 ' 7 t # to his dffsiy * ' and " the glorious gospel of the blessed God / ' reversing thi& sad doom , and proclaiming the blessings of the second estutc of mun , when he shall become a " > f / fickeni / tg ' " or ** viirtfifi * t . g sjririt , " over w ' uich " death hath no doinhiiony * shines forth in its genuine lustre . : *« The Ufagw of # * V' tiuk'od " in death ; ' * tytyti it is therefore the object < jf the reaiu > rcction from tjcuth , aad the jux ^ meut which w \ U follow , to e ^ ect our deUveiivuce from b ^ th thest evils , to destroy him that fiatfc ttiegowerofueaJthy It hat * u ' t / ' * c Dirtily < if sin our deaiUv miveisary , „
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1816, page 453, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2455/page/17/
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