e:h the Difference, Who ·knoweth .the 'fpirit of a . man that goeth upward, and the fJ?irit of a beaft · that goeth downward unto the earth? Unlej1 we kmw this~ unlefs we confider the different ftate of the fpirit of Men and Beafls, we cannot ·be_delivered from, this .A.theifm ; bt}t the thoug'hts hereof ,vilt [et Uf ' ~t liberty fro'm it. · They dle in like man... ner, andtheir bodies go equally to the duft for a Jeafon; but the Beaft bath r;o fpirit, no foul~ but what dies with the body andgoes to the duft. . If they had., their bodies alfo muft be raifod again untq a conjunilion with them. .Other-;pife Death mould produce a nc'JV race of creat14res unto Eternity. But man bath an immortal Soul,· !fl#h ~e, an· heavenly Spirit~ which when th·r; Borly goes into the dufo for a feafon, afcends to Heaven ( where the guilt of fin, and the curfe of the Law; interpofe not) from whence it is there to exi{f and to aB (lll .its Native po'Jvers in. a ftate of blej]ednefs, . ~ . . BUT M I [aid, by reafon of this peculiar intimate Union and Relation between the Soul and ·Body,there is in the whole Nature a fixed Averfation from a , Dijfolutio1't. The Soul and Body are naturally and necej]arily umvilling to fall into .a flate of Separation, wherein the one Jha!l ceafe to be what it was, and the other kncws not clearly how it ]hall fubfijf. The Body cla.JPeth about the Soul, and the Soul re... ceiveth Jlrange Imprej]ions from itj embraces; the en• tire nature exijfing in the Union of them both, being unalterably aver(e unto a Diflolution. JYHEREFORE, unlefs ?-JJe can overccme this in- ~lination, zve ctrn ne·ver die comfc rtably or chearfully~ We
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