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    ble ; and that water at some times , and fire in others , may be instruments appointed for these renovations .

    There are , I think , no faint indications of great and general changes having taken place in the two superior planets 5 Jupiter and Saturn .

    I do not believe that it is immutably fixed that the earth and the other planets shall eternally revolve at the same distance from the sun with the same periods as at present , the same inclinations of their axes , and the same

    seasons . One of the same causes may be appointed to change , and beneficially to change , all these circumstances . And when there shall be morally new heavens and

    a new earth , that the physical changes shall correspond with the moral , seems to me agreeable to the most just and beautiful ana logy .

    I can believe that the creation , the final dissolution , the last judgment ^ are exprest in some respects rather popularly than strictly . But I suppose them to have a large mixture of general physical and literal truth .

    Mr . Fellowes , I find , supposes there is no resurrection of the body . Now , to me body means neither more nor less than a * certain manifestation and exercise of mind and the powers of mind , by

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    OHf THE SUBSCRIPTION TO MRS . STANDEVENS ' S CHILDREN

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    To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .

    SIR , I could not help feeling some surprise at the manner in which you and the readers of your valuable Miscellany were , in the last month , called to account by an

    anonymous correspondent trom Chichester . You kindly gave a place to the appeal made to the public , in behalf of the orphan children of the unfortunate Mrs . Standsvens ; and , as Unitarian * f

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    a suitable assemblage of sensible phenomena , and a corresponding series of effects . I do not believe we shall ever ceiaise to have sensations , nor consequently that we shall cease to have our intellectual

    powers associated with sensible ideasj their phenomena and results . I think , too , that it is probable , that these will be higher and more perfect , but analogous to much of those which

    we now experience . Reminiscence , identity conti - nued or renewed , consciousness 3

    seems to me to imply , that our being in a future state shall be similar to our present being , but indefinitely and progressively improved .

    I am not fond of figurative sensesTTill it has been first tried how far the literal sense will enable or permit us rationally and satisfactorily to go with it .

    As to the eternity of punishments , in the first place , I think , properly speaking , it can no where be said to be literally expressed , If I thought it were , f ^ hould quit the letter and resort to figurative

    construction , rather than adopt a sense vVhich I cannot reconcile to the divine attributes , whether I judge of them from reason or revelation . There is nothing so sure as that final evil cannot exist under the divine government .

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    348 * On the Subscription to Mrs . Standevens * $ Children .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1810, page 348, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2406/page/28/