DIALOGUE III. The Seats of Happiness fubdivided by Theophilus into thoje of Angels, thofe of feparate Souls, and the Seats of Happiness after the Refurrection. They agree to go in Search of the First; but give up the common Notion, as quite improbable, and yet in Jome Refpect better than the Philofophical. Afhort Digreffion notwithstanding in Praife of the new PhiloSophy: with a Word or two on the Use of the prefent Query. The Scripture Heaven confider'd, and fhewn to mean chiefly the Atmofphere; with fome fhort Remarks on the Vifion of Stephen, the Proto-Martyr, and on that of the Apostle St. Peter; on the Scripture Docrine of miniftring Spirits, and the Scripture Account of a Journey from Heaven by the Angel Gabriel; from which it is argued by Theophilus, that it is highly probable they refide in the Atmosphere, which may have in it many Things to us invifible, as he fhews from fome Scripture Examples. pag. 16 DIALOGUE IV. Some Confiderations on the Nature of Angels, with the Time of their Creation, and Fall. Of the Ufe of Scripture in Points of Philofophy, and the Reasons why we are not bound bound by it in this Cafe, as we are in fuch as relate to Divinity. That Angels are probably Men of a fuperior Kind, and made at first to inhabit the Atmosphere. That they probably fell at the fame Time with us, or that the tempting of Man was the first overt-act they were guilty of: with fome Confiderations on Confiderations on a Paffage of St. Peter refpecting the foregoing Subject. A Propofal for going in Search of the Country of Souls. This objected against by Philander. His Rea- fons for changing his Sentiments. He propofes a Question to CRITO; and takes occafion from thence to deride the Philofopher's Notions con- laft with that of the Son of Sirach. From which be fhews their Idea of Death to be that of a State of infenfible Sleep, which is yielded by CRITO to have been the Old Teftament Notion; but not at all, as Philander obferves to the Credit of Scripture, which he urges fo home on them that cannot they answer him. He then goes on to New Teftament Evidence, and having confider'd the Doctrine of Christ, and St. Paul, on this Head, he next proposes to fhew it's Agreement with that of St. Peter and John; but is told by Crito there was no Occafion for it, till they had better confider'd the Evidence brought already. pag. 51 DIALOGUE VII. It is here agreed to begin their Objections against Philander, and to try the Strength of what they could urge on their Side: And they accordingly object to him, in the firft Place, the Appearance of Samuel after Death at Endor; then that of Mofes and Elias with our Lord, at his Transfiguration; and then that of the Souls reprefented as feen by St. John, and as heard crying from under the Altar: all which on Philander's Reply are given up; as is allo Ecclef. xii, 7. but Matt. x. 28. is infifted on, and being anfwer'd at large by Philander, the Dialogue ends. pag. 65 A 2 DIA In this is confider'd the remarkable Parable of the impurpled rich Man and poor Lazarus ; with Some Remarks on the Nature, End, and Deflgn of Parables, and an Inference drawn from this against the Appearance of Ghosts and Spectres -Our Saviour's Argument against the Sadducees HisPromife to the penitentThief -And his commending his Spirit into the Hands of his Father What is faid by St. Paul in ii. Cor. v, 8. and in Philip. i. 23. together with Heb. xi. ult, and xii., 23.With fome Quotations from Authors believing the oppofite :: St. Pauls Rapture to the third Heaven, and The Abfurdity of applying thefe to St. John's Millennium, and the Ufe of diftinguishing thefe Things fhewn more largely. The peculiar Ad- vantages of this Hypothefis. That the future new Heaven and Earth fhall be very glorious, and contain all the Glories promis'd us in Scrip ture: with an Answer to the principal Ob- jections brought against this, and an Attempt |