When a good man is forsaken by the world, and is subjected to the miseries of poverty and the loss of friends, he still finds something within which brings him consolation. It is not merely a good conscience, but it is Hope founded on a good conscience. He has an internal assurance, that however melancholy his present position may be, there yet is something good in store for him. This hope enables him to bear up, and carries him in triumph through the storms of the world.
Robert Morehead, A Series of Discourses on the Principles of Religious Belief as Connected with Human Happiness and Improvement, Volume I (1809), Sermon X, "Proofs of Immortality from Reason" (p. 158).
I've briefly discussed Robert Morehead before; he was a Scottish Episcopalian minister and one of the most creative thinkers of early nineteenth-century Britain. He was a poet and translator, a major figure in the development of a new style of pulpit oratory, and a philosopher; but very little work seems to have been done on him.
