The saints convoy to heaven a discourse occasioned

Secondly, The Soul cannot die, or cease to be, by any Internal Principles; such as contrary Qualities in the Body, which after Conflicts, and one consumed by the other, cause the Death of the Body: as Fire in the Lamp licking up all the Oil, causeth the Lamp to go out: ⟨p. 8⟩or if too much Oil be poured in, and overflows the Fire, it also is extinguished. Neither can the Soul dye with old Age, as the Body will; for time is not the measure of the Duration of the Soul, as it is of the Body; but Eviternity, and Beings measured thereby, tho' they have a Beginning, yet shall have no Ending.

Secondly, The Soul cannot die, or cease to be, by any Internal Principles; such as contrary Qualities in the Body, which after Conflicts, and one consumed by the other, cause the Death of the Body: as Fire in the Lamp licking up all the Oyl, causeth the Lamp to go out: ⟨p. 8⟩or if too much Oyl be poured in, and overflows the Fire, it also is extinguished. Neither can the Soul dye with old Age, as the Body will; for time is not the measure of the Duration of the Soul, as it is of the Body; but Eviternity, and Beings measured thereby, tho' they have a Beginning, yet shall have no Ending.

¹Let this awaken all to provide a Lodging for their Souls, against the Hour they shall be separated from their Bodies. Now our Souls dwell in Houses of Clay, and these have their Foundation in the Dust,² and will shortly fall, and the Soul be dispossessed, and turned out of this House, in which it is a Tenant at Will of the great Landlord of all the World, who might Seal a Lease of Ejectment at his Pleasure; when you cannot remove from one House to another in the same Parish, in the same City, or in the same Nation; no, nor yet in the same World; but will be such a Remove as never yet you made, from one World to another.