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    the mental faculties and of the animal spirits , of the limbs arid of the senses , in the last stage of this mortal being ^ In the remainder of the description he places before our eyes some bodily infirmities and diseases , to which uge is

    In blossom at the yery t ) eglnniii ^ of the year ; when scarcely any other part of the vegetable kingdom attracts the senses by beauty or by fragrance . Here , then , we have no unfit emblein of a privation suffered by extreme age . Vers , 6 , 7 . Thus far the wise and eloquent moralist paints the decay of

    partwularty ' liable , and which generally precede and hasten on the stroke of death . For an explanation * of these , I refer the curious reader to the work , of which I have availed myself .

    Of this picture of declining life it may be remarked , that , while every partis verified by the experience of multitudes of mankind , and while several of the states and appearances .,

    which it represents , are not a little painful and revolting , still , the whole is as elegant as it is correct . It contains nothing which can raise disgust In the mind of the most fastidious

    observer : so pertinent , so unexceptionable and select , is the group of images , of which we perceive it to be composed ! From portraits of old age , which occur in the works of some

    Heathen writers , I turn away with unspeakable disgust . ^ These authors have taxed their imagination , for the purpose of rendefiftg their sketches more hideous and deformed . Not so

    the Hebrew preacher ; attentive to truth and nature , he is , at the same time , mindful of the claims of taste and delicacy . I Thess . iv . J 4 . " them also

    Jwho sleep in Jesus , " &c . Some of the commentators have supposed that Paul alludes to the case of Christian martyrs in the Church at Thessalonica . Yet the words focc rs Iy )( tb will not justify this opinion : and Benson correctly says , " There is no

    * Mead , pp . 44—50 : and see the case of Atticus , as described by Cor . Nep . Ch . xvL t Juvenal , x . 188—276 , and Select . qirccL ex C . Plinii 2 di Hist . Nat . pp . 31 , 32 . £ Hammond , in loc Tillotson ' s Serin , ( foL ) II . p . 184 .

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    intimation , tjh&t ; fag of the Christians in that city M ( l spriSfei ^ d dead * | b ? Christ ' s sake . * ' I pin ijispoi ^ ed to connect this cli ^ se ji / lth ^ ** God will by J&J 0 y > y jp ^ ana of Ibis agency ] bring [ to th ^ sa ) cnfe state of ilnniottal life aiiid happli ^ ss ] those who sleep ; a < nd this \ together with him [ crvv avTcp % i , e . » t his second manifestation ] . Thus * in vera . 13 , 14 , 15 , we shall have simply the

    expression , " those who sleep" ( t ^ / c ^^ - Gzvra *;) . In ver . 16 , the forin is . difc ferent , \\ the dead in Christ , " or departed Christians [ oi vetcgM tv itgi $ - $ m

    not , ha , Xp ^ a ] . It may justly be doubted , whether any great number of our Lord ^ s dlsi ciples suffered death , for his sake , ia the age of the apostles . The silence of the New Testament * on the subject ^

    would lead me to the opposite conclusion . Indeed , the writer to the Hebrews reminds a considerable body of Christian believers , that they had " not yet resisted unto blood . " * [ xiu 4 . ] Though Herod [ Acts xii . 2 ] h ^ cj 4 t killed James , the brother of John ,

    with the sword , " and though it be riot improbable that tyranny had deprived some other individuals of their liveSjj on the same account , yet evidence ia wanting of its victims being then nu- ] merous . I know not that Acts xxii 1

    4 , xxvi . 10 , furnish a solid objectioa to this statement . Those passages do not necessarily express more than Paul's intention , and the fulfilment of it , in the instance of Stephen , and , it may be , of a few more persons . The respective situation of the Jewish people and of the Romans , at that period , did not allow of persecution raging with the utmost fury and effect . N , *

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    Report of the Committee of the Deputies of the Protestant Dissenters t < the General Hody , Jan . 2 , 1824 . YOUR Committee , in digesting a Report of their Proceedings

    during the last year , have been desirpus so to frame it as fully to answer the wishes of those by whom it was required ; and , conceiving that it may have been desired as much for the

    information of Dissenters in general as of the body of Deputies , to whom the minutes have been regularly com * municated at the annual meetings ;

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    t % Report of the Comtititiee of the Deputies of the Protestant Dissenters *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1824, page 78, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2521/page/14/