A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…

But if you grant there is another world proportionably thus replenished with creatures, you may easily see from thence a Probability, that man shall be translated thither. Why not the soul of man, as well as those spirits that in assumed shapes have made their appearances unto man? As all things ripen to their perfection, why should it seem any more improbable that the soul shall pass hence into the world of spirits, then that the chicken shall come out of the shell, and the infant out of the womb, into so wide and light a world as this, when before they were shut up in a narrow darkness, and never heard nor knew any thing of that world, which they enter into?

But if you grant there is another world proportionaby thus replenished with creatures, you may easily see from thence a Probability, that man shall be translated thither. Why not the soul of man, as well as those spirits that in assumed shapes have made their appearances unto man? As all things ripen to their perfection, why should it seem any more improbable that the soul shall pass hence into the world of spirits, then that the chicken shall come out of the shell, and the infant out of the wombe, into so wide and light a world as this, when before they were shut up in a narrow darkness, and never heard nor knew any thing of that world, which they enter into?

Quer. 9. Do you know why it is that God hath given man that knowledge, and free-will, and capacity to seek another life, which beasts have not, if he be intended for no other life then beasts? If God be no most Wise, he is not God. If he be, then he maketh not so excellent faculties as these in vain, but fitteth all his Creatures to their uses. Every workman will do so by his work. Why is a knife made keen, but to cut with? And what are the wheels of your watch or clock made for, but to show you the hour of the day? Look now into the whole frame of the soul of man, and judge by its aptitude what it is made for.

Quer. 9. Do you know why it is that God hath given man that knowledge, and free-will, and capacity to seek another life, which beasts have not, if he be intended for no other life then beasts? If God be no most Wise, he is not God. If he be, then he maketh not so excellent faculties as these in vain, but fitteth all his Creatures to their uses. Every workman will do so by his work. Why is a knife made keen, but to cut with? And what are the wheels of your watch or clock made for, but to shew you the hour of the day? Look now into the whole frame of the soul of man, and judge by its aptitude what it is made for.