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tution what it will, may not admit of, when placed amidst 

 new objects, and endowed with a sensorium, adapted, as it 

 undoubtedly will be, and as our present senses are, to the 

 perception of those substances, and of those properties of 

 things, with which our concern may lie. 



Upon the whole, in every thing which respects this awful, 

 but, as we trust, glorious change, we have a wise and pow- 

 erful Being, (the author, in nature, of infinitely various ex- 

 pedients for infinitely various ends,) upon whom to rely for 

 the choice and appointment of means, adequate to the exe- 

 cution of any plan Vv'hich his goodness or his justice may 

 have formed, for the moral and accountable part of his ter- 

 restrial creation. That great office rests with him : be it 

 ours to hope and to prepare ; under a firm and settled per- 

 suasion, that living and dying, we are his ; that life is pass- 

 ed in his constant presence, that death resigns us to his 

 merciful disposal. 



