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The Evidence

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The Evidence of things not feen, &c.

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And bath brought Life and Immortality to Light through the Gospel.

HE firm unfhaken Belief of a Life to come, of Rewards and Punishments in the other World, fuitable to our Behaviour and Deportment in this, being

the very Cardinal Point of all Religion, the main Foundation of our Hopes and Fears extended beyond the Grave, the greatest Awe upon Mens Minds and Confciences, the principal Motive of Piety and Vertue, the most powerful Reftraint from Vice and Wickednefs, it being alfo a Marier of the highest Concern and Importance to us, whether we shall live for ever in another State of Bleffedness, or after a few Years, Days, or perhaps Moments hence, die like the Beats which perith, and ceafe to be, as if we had never been: It cannot certainly but be a Difquifition very acceptable to Human Nature, as well as to the good Chriftian, to enquire what Evidence we have of a future State, that 'tis really exiftent, and to be expected by us.

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Efpecially is fuch an Enquiry the more neceffary in an Age wherein this chief Principle of natu

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tal, as well as reveal'd Religion is call'd in Que ftion; and wherein Men living like Beasts, to quiet natural Confcience, would fain perfwade themselves and others they fhall die like Beasts alfo, and be no more in another State. When the Socinians teach an Extinction or Lofs of Being in the Wicked, within a fhort time after the Divine Sentence of Condemnation pafs'd on them at the Day of Judgment; thofe falfe Opinionists holding a terminable Punishment by Hell Fire; which preying upon the new-raifed Bodies of the Damned, fhall caufe (fay the Socinians) their Souls to dif lodge from them, and to fall into Annihilation or Non-being in which Senfe they misunderstand thofe Scripture-Expreffions, Second Death, and Everlafting Deftruction from the Prefence of the Lord; the fecond Death fignifying only Eternal Mifery; and Everlasting Deftruction, Everlasting Punishment: And when alfo we have Books published, entitled, Second and farther Thoughts concerning Human Soul, pretendedly demonftrating the Noti on of Human Soul, as commonly believed to be a Spiritual Immortal Subflance united to Human Body, to be a plain Heathenish Invention, and not confonant to the Principles of Philofophy, Reafon, or Religion, &c. When the partial Infidel, on the one hand, averreth the Sleep or Infenfibility of the Human Soul, both in good and bad Perfons; nay, the utter Ceffation of Being in both, from the time of the Deceafe of their Souls from their Bodies, till the Refurrection of them at the last Day: And when your Sadducees or compleat Infidels, on the other fide, deny any future Exiftence of the Soul after Death, and fay there is no Angel, no parate Human Spirit, nor any Refurrection of

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the dead Body: When these fundamental Errors, fubvertive of all Religion, are broach'd and maintain'd in the World, and what is more, in a Chriftian Kingdom and Nation, undoubtedly it importeth us Stewards of the Myfteries of God, and of the Principles of Religion, to obviate what we can the spreading Errors, and to apply Antidotes to hinder our People from being infected with the contagious Spiritual Diftempers. The Subject therefore of my prefent Difcourfe fhall be the laying before you the moft convincing Proofs of our Souls furviving the Diffolution of our Bodies, in a feparate State of Life and Immortality; which that our Saviour hath brought to Light more undoubtedly through the Gospel, than ever it was before, my Text affures us; and I proceed to endeavour the proving it,

Firft, By fhewing what degree of Light manifelting a future State, the Light of Nature, or bare Reafon, unaffifted with Divine Revelation, afforded, and doth itill afford.

Secondly, What further Evidence of an AfterExistence the Law of Mofes yielded the Jews.

Thirdly, What greatest Evidence of all, proving and confirming this Point of a Life to come, the Revelation of the Gofpel affords us Chrifti

ans.

First then I am to fhew, what degree of Light manifefting a future State, the Light of Nature, or bare Reafon, afforded, and doth ftill afford.

And here I take my firit Rife in proving another World, or a Life after this, from the Nature of God, whofe Divine Goodnefs, Holinefs, Wifdom and Juftice, either of them fingly, and therefore certainly all of them together itrongly induce