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man, are results of our blessed Lord's victory over sin and death ; 

 that the resurrection of the dead must be preliminary to their 

 entrance into either of the future states, and that the nature and 

 even existence of these states and even the mere fact that there 

 is a futurity of consciousness, can be known only through God's 

 revelation of Himself in the Person and the Gospel of His 

 Son." P. 389. 



And now hear Priestley : 



" Man, according to this system (of materialism), is no more 

 than we now see of him. His being commences at the time of 

 his conception, or perhaps at an earlier period. The corporeal 

 and mental faculties, in being in the same substance, grow, 

 ripen, and decay together; and whenever the system is dis- 

 solved it continues in a state of dissolution till it shall please 

 that Almighty Being who called it into existence to restore it to 

 life again." "Matter and Spirit," p. 49. 



And again : 



"The doctrine of the Scripture is, that God made man of 

 the dust of the ground, and by simply animating this organised 

 matter, made man that living percipient and intelligent being 

 that he is. According to Revelation, death is a state of rest and 

 insensibility, and our only though sure hope of a future life is 

 founded on the doctrine of the resurrection of the whole man at 

 some distant period ; this assurance being sufficiently confirmed 

 to us both by the evident tokens of a Divine commission attend- 

 ing the persons who delivered the doctrine, and especially by 

 the actual resurrection of Jesus Christ, which is more authentic- 

 ally attested than any other fact in history." Ibid., p. 247. 



We all know that " a saint in crape is twice a 

 saint in lawn ;" but it is not yet admitted that the 

 views which are consistent with such saintliness in 

 lawn, become diabolical when held by a mere dis- 

 senter. 1 



1 Not only is Priestley at one with Bishop Courtenay in this 



