CONCLUSION. 515 tremble, condescend in heaven to tame horses ! The departed Mussulman re- ceives his celestial rewards in scenes of revelry and banquets of voluptuousness ! What gratifications for an immaterial, immortal spirit ! The whole scheme of future happiness exhibited in these two systems, is a pre- posterous provision for the perishable part of man, to the entire exclusionof the immortal principle ; both schemes stand in direct opposition to the laws of infinite wisdom, and the express word of Scrip- ture. Both intimate as if the body were the part of our nature which is to exist after death, while the soul is the portion which is to be extinguished. Of a spiri- tual heaven, neither the obsolete mytho- logy, nor the existing Koran, affords the slightest intimation. The Scripture views of heaven are given rather to quicken faith than to gratify curiosity. There the appropriate promises to spiritual beings are purely spiritual. It is enough for believers to
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