They who refer the operations of mind to a fubftance totally and effentially different from matter, as, moft certainly, thefe operations, though affected by material caufes, hold very little affinity to any properties of matter with which we are acquainted, adopt, perhaps, a jufter reasoning and a better philofophy; and by these the confiderations above fuggefted are not wanted, at least in the fame degree. But to fuch as find, which fome perfons do find, an infuperable difficulty in fhaking off an adherence to those analogies, which the corporeal world is continually fuggefting to their thoughts; to fuch, I fay, every confideration will be a relief, which manifefts the extent of that intelligent power which is acting in nature, the fruitfulness of its resources, the variety, and aptness, and fuccefs of its means; moft efpecially every confideration, which tends to fhew, that, in the tranflation of a conscious exiftence, there is not, even in their own way of regarding it, any thing greatly beyond, or totally unlike, what takes place in fuch parts (probably small parts) of the order of nature, as are acceffible to our obfervation. Again; if there be those who think, that the contractedness and debility of the human faculties 9 faculties in our present ftate, feem ill to accord with the high deftinies which the expectations of religion point out to us, I would only ask them, whether any one, who faw a child two hours after its birth, could fuppofe that it would ever come to understand fluxions*; or who then shall fay, what further amplification of intellectual powers, what acceffion of knowledge, what advance and improvement, the rational faculty, be its conftitution what it will, may not admit of, when placed amidst new objects, and endowed with a fenforium, adapted, as it undoubtedly will be, and as our present senses are, to the perception of those fubftances, and of thofe properties of things, with which our concern may lie. Upon the whole; in every thing which refpects this awful, but, as we truft, glorious change, we have a wife and powerful Being, (the author, in nature, of infinitely various expedients for infinitely various ends,) upon whom to rely for the choice and appointment of means, adequate to the execution of any plan which his goodness or his juftice may have * See Search's Light of Nature, paffim. 2Q formed, formed, for the moral and accountable part of his terreftrial creation. That great office refts with him: be it ours to hope and to prepare; under a firm and fettled perfuafion, that, living and dying, we are his; that life is paffed in his conftant prefence, that death refigns us to his merciful difpofal. FINIS. Wilks and Taylor, Printers, Chancery-lane. BOOKS Printed for R. FAULDER. DR. PALEY's Principles of Moral and Po litical Philofophy, 13th edit. 2 vols. boards, Evidences of Chriftianity, 8th edit. Hora Pauline, or The Truth of the Scripture Hiftory of St. Paul evinced, boards, 1795, 19 Three Sermons on various Occafions, o I Sermon before the University of Cam bridge, 1795, Charge to the Clergy of the Diocese of Carlisle, Reasons for Contentment, Danville's Ancient Geography, with new maps, 2 vols. 8vo. boards, Elegant Extracts in Profe, 8vo. boards, Elegant Extracts in Verse, 8vo. boards, Imitations of Martial's Epigrams, with the original Latin, by Halhed, four parts, Maurice's Hiftory of Hinduftan, 2 vols. 4to. Franklin's Hiftory of Chah Aulum, 4to. Lives of the Poets, 4 vols. 12mo. Shakespeare's Works, 6 vols. royal 8vo. Shakespeare's Works, 8 vols. 12mo. 4 13 6 14 3 2 2 6 2 ΤΟ 6 O 6 Shakespeare's Works, 9 vols. 18mo. Swift's Works, by Sheridan, 19 vols. 8vo. Silii Italici Punica, elegantly printed by Bulmer, 2 vols. Sophocles's Tragedies, by Franklin, 8vo. Spectator, 8 vols. 8vo. Spectator, 8 vols. 12mo. Strutt's Dictionary of Engravers, 2 vols. 4to. 8 Virgilii Opera, per Heyne, 4 vols. fine paper, £. s. d. Tables for facilitating the Calculations of Nautical Afiatic Researches, 6 vols. 8vo. Ayeen Akbary, 2 vols. 4to. Ayeen Akbary, 2 vols. 8vo. Middleton's Life of Cicero, 3 vols. 8vo. Junius's Letters, 2 vols. 18mo. Locke's Works, 10 vols. 8vo. Walker's Gazetteer, 8vo. Lady's Advice to her Children, by the Rev. Dr. Barretti's Spanish Dictionary, 4to. Forfter's Journey from India to England, through Charnock's Hiftory of Marine Architecture, from Howard's Addrefs to the Bishops of England and Bishop Hinchliff's Sermons, Religious Principle the Source of National Proíperity, a Sermon on the ft of June, 1802, by the Rev. Edward Pattefon, I 7 0 |