The Evidence of Things Not Seen; Or, the Immortality of the Human Soul, Prov'd From Scripture & Reason. 2 Discourses. Or, the Immortality of the Human ... Prov'd From Scripture & Reason. 2 Discourses

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1703. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... they who would deliver us from such tormenting Anticipations of Opinion could never effect this their Purpose, altho' they had the Desires of the Wicked on their fide, viz. that there might be no after-Account, and had the Assistance also of Nat* ral Prophaneness to favour them in the Attempt? A Propensity to which I fear there is in a very great' part of Mankind; and yet nevertheless the number is so small of those who have rescued themselves from the disquieting Presages of Conscience, as shews these Presages to be Natural,and the attempt to get rid of them vain and fruitless; indeed ib vain, that perhaps there never was one Person that became absolutely free from those Anticipations of Mind concerning a future State; no not even Lucretius or Epicurus himself Nay the Universality of this Belief of a Life to come, and of the consequent fearful Reflection on our past evil Actions, tho' never so concealed and unaccountable here, can certainly be ascribed or owing to nothing else than the general Dictate of Nature and Anticipation of a future Reckonings for what is Universal in all the Individuals of any Species, 'tis rational to conclude is Natural to them, not foreignly superinduced; and what is Natural to all Men, is from God, the Author of their Nature; and what is from him must needs le no vain thing * he being neither capable of deceiving or of being deceived. Now if the Soul of Man be not immortal and accountable in another Life for its Actions performed in this, how hath such a Fancy entered our Minds,and been able to become so deeply rooted in them, that there is no Periwafion more readily entertained, more firmly believed, more difficultly culcly relinquished, more universally assented unto than this? Not only the Greeks and Ron:ans, the more re...