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“ This corruption, fhall put on incorruption; and this mor- 
<c tal, fhall put on immortality.” 
<c I am the refurre&ion and the life, faith the Lord : he that 
<£ believeth on me, though he were dead, yet fhall he live. And 
i<s whofoever liveth and believeth in me, fhall never die.” 
“ I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he fhall Hand • 
“ at the latter day upon the earth. And though after my fkin, 
<£ worms deflroy this body ; yet in my flefh fhall I fee God : 
“ whom I fhall fee for my felf, and mine eyes fhall behold, and 
“ not another.” 
Or, if they do not choofe the words of facred penmen, fo 
emphatical, fo interefling, fo well adapted ; moralifts, divines, 
or poets of later times, might fupply them. Thus might 
the ruftic who is only taught to read, learn the bell and truefb 
philofophy from a tombffone ; and the gentleman of fortune, 
in the country, might turn this current of nonfenfe, at leaft in 
his own church-yard. Would it not be of ufe to the good 
fenfe and morals of the people, to help them in this inflance ? 
Is it neceffary to indulge, or fupport them, in propagating fuch 
abfurd nonfenfe, becaufe it would be more abfurd to attempt 
making them all learned ? 
But here we have a ffriking proof of the fondnefs which man- 
kind entertain for the children of their own brain : the peafant 
may fay why fhould not I write my own poetry, as well as the 
curate his own fermon ? both of us might be much better fup- 
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