...near "• the Author's defign ^ but on the other hand,; " I refer him to Wifdom Ch. 3. v. i, 2, 3, 4^, But the Souls of the Righteous are in .the , Hand of God, andt there flja.ll no Tortftent . touch them $ in the fight of the TJnrvife they feemed to die, and...

...Death of a. Sinner t nay, Death is none of his Creature, God made not Death, fays the Wife Man, He created Man to be Immortal, and made him to be an Image of his own Eternity j Neverthelefs thro the envy of the Devil came Death into theWorld, aati they that do hold on his fide...

...more capable of being delivered at all. And as to Virtuous and GWmen; 'tis no lefs certain that the Souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there fhall no Torment touch them. They are in Scripture reprefented as being in Paradife, or in Abraham's...

...a feparate State, before " the Refurredlion. See the book ' of Wifdom, *' Chap. iii. i, 2, 3,4. The Souls of the Righteous " are in the Hand of God, and there Jhall no Tor" ment touch them. In the Sight of the Unwife " they feemed to die, and their Departure...

...in the Nature of the Thing, but an Effed of his unbounded Goodnefs only, and a mere free Gift, that God created Man to be Immortal, and made him to be an Image of his own Eternity. He might jtiftly have created him for what Time he pleafed ; and even in the State of Innocence, might...

...Life is not like other mens, bis ways are ef another FaJhion. And concerning evil Spirits, ver. 24 ; 'Through Envy of the Devil, came Death into the World; and they that bold of his fide, do find it. Neverthelefs; though the Scriptures do indeed thus teach us, that the...

...cannot deftroy it ; Satan, Sin, all the Powers of Darkncls cannot ditloive it. For the everlafting God created Man to be immortal., and made him to be an Image of his Own Eter* nity. a He has alfo further informed us, That tho in sldam all die, yet fuch is his Almighty...

...Sufferings. But indeed, even their own apocryphal Scriptures might have taught them better than this. The Souls of the Righteous are in the Hand of God, and there Jhall no Torment touch them*. Nor is their Plea from Antiquity better than that from Scripture. For...

...be faid that, from the firft moment of our exiftence, Immortality was ftamped upon us, or, that -j- GOD created Man to be immortal^ and made him to be an Image of his own Eternity ; ftill it was GOD's Will and Pleafure thus to dignify and diftinguifh the duft of the Ground 'in one...

...man upon the earth, and breathed into wifd. ii. his noftrils the breath of life, he created23' him, to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity. From From this happy immortality, Man, by1 his tranfgreffion, fell into a ftate of mifeWifd. i. ry,...