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THE GUARDIAN.

N° 27.

thofe defects, and open their views, by laying be fore them a caſe which, being naturally poſlible , may perhapsreconcile them to the belief of what is fupernaturally revealed. Let us fuppofe a perſon blind and deaf from his birth, who, being grown to man's eſtate, is

by the dead palfy, or ſome other cauſe, deprived of his feelings, taſting, and ſmelling, and at the ſame time has the impediment of his hearing re

moved, and the film taken from his eyes. What the five feuſes are to us, that the touch, tafte, and

ſmell, were to him. And any other ways of

perception of a more refined and extenfive na ture were to him as inconceivable, as to us thoſe are which will one day be adapted to perceive thoſe things which eye hath not ſeen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of

man to conceive. And it would be juſt as rea fonable in him to conclude, that the loſs of thoſe three fenfes could not poſſibly be ſucceeded by

any new inlets of perception ; as in a modern free -thinker to imagine there can be no ſtate of

life and perception without the ſenſes he enjoys

at preſent. Let us further ſuppoſe the fame perſon's eyes, at their firſt opening, to be ſtruck

with a great variety of the moſt gay and pleaſing objects, and his ears with a melodious concert Behold him amazed, raviſhed, tranſported ; and you have of vocal and inſtrumental muſic.

fome diſtant repreſentation, fome faint and glim mering idea of the ecſtatic ſtate of the foul in that article in which ſhe emerges from this fepul chre of fleſh into life and immortality. N. B.

• It has been obſerved by the Chrif