And that the Souls of some have done so, we know from Scripture. There was a Child dead: His soul gone clear out of his body. The Prophet Elijah under a Divine Inspiration, Prayed saying, O Lord my God, I Pray thee, let this Child's soul come into him again; and the soul of the Child came into him again, and he revived, 1 King. 17.21, 22. There was the Daughter of Jairus, a Damsel of Twelve Years Old, known to be dead; but at the Command of Christ her spirit came again, Luk. 8.55. Yea, the Scripture speaks of some Living still, notwithstanding as to their bodies, they have been dead for more than a Thousand Years. Abraham, Isaac, & Jacob, they are all Living to GOD, Luk. 20.38. It is said of believing Gentiles, that they shall sit down with Abraham, Isaac & Jacob, in the Kingdom of Heaven, Mat. 8.11. Which words ar• a description of going to Heaven. ⟨p. 61⟩Believers when they leave this world, go to a joyful Feast in heaven. Lazarus Died, and was carried by Angels into Abraham's bosom, Luk. 16.22. He sat down as a Guest with Abraham at the same Feast. But if the Scripture were silent about the Immortality of the Souls of men, it might be known by the Light of Natural Reason. And therefore it has been received as a Truth in all Nations, and in all Ages of the World. Not only the more Polite & Civilized Nations, but the most Barbarous Heathen have not been so Barbarous and Brutish, as to have no sentiments of the Immortality of their own Souls. Our American Indians before the Gospel came among them, did not believe that their Souls died with their Bodies: but that they went to another Country they knew not whither. Because the Souls Immortality has been the general Sentiment of Mankind, some perverting that Truth, have embraced the absurd Error of the Transmigration of Souls. So did Pythagoras teach his Disciples. And •ong before him, the Indian Philosopher Phoe, seduced the East Indians into that ⟨p. 62⟩Opinion, which remains among them still▪ Therefore they do not think that Souls dye ▪ The truth is, Not Only that the Souls o• men shall not, but that they can not Dy• Mat. 10.28. Fear not them which kill th• body, but are not able to kill the soul. I• is beyond the Power of any Creature in th• world to kill the soul. The Martyrs would comfort themselves with that Thought when their Enemies would threaten them with Death;
And that the Souls of some have done so, we know from Scripture. There was a Child dead: His soul gone clear out of his body. The Prophet Elijah under a Divine Inspiration, Prayed saying, O Lord my God, I Pray thee, let this Childs soul come into him again; and the soul of the Child came into him again, and he revived, 1 King. 17.21, 22. There was the Daughter of Jairus, a Damsel of Twelve Years Old, known to be dead; but at the Command of Christ her spirit came again, Luk. 8.55. Yea, the Scripture speaks of some Living still, notwithstanding as to their bodies, they have been dead for more than a Thousand Years. Abraham, Isaac, & Jacob, they are all Living to GOD, Luk. 20.38. It is said of believing Gentiles, that they shall sit down with Abraham, Isaac & Jacob, in the Kingd•m of Heaven, Mat. 8.11. Which words ar• a description of going to Heaven. ⟨p. 61⟩Believers when they leave this world, go to a joyful Feast in heaven. Lazarus Died, and was carried by Angels into Abrahams bosom, Luk. 16.22. He sat down as a Guest with Abraham at the same Feast. But if the Scripture were silent about the Immortality of the Souls of men, it might be known by the Light of Natural Reason. And therefore it has been received as a Truth in all Nations, and in all Ages of the World. Not only the more Polite & Civillized Nations, but the most Barbarous Heathen have not been so Barbarous and Brutish, as to have no sentiments of the Immortality of their own Souls. Our American Indians before the Gospel came among them, did not believe that their Souls died with their Bodies: but that they went to another Countrey they knew not whither. Because the Souls Immortality has been the general Sentiment of Mankind, some perverting that Truth, have embraced the absurd Error of the Transmigration of Souls. So did Pythagoras teach his Disciples. And •ong before him, the Indian Philosopher Phoe, seduced the East Indians into that ⟨p. 62⟩Opinion, which remains among them still▪ Therefore they do not think that Souls dye ▪ The truth is, Not Only that the Souls o men shall not, but that they can not Dy
