C A A P.S. Eprfllcts the 7hejalonians. V s &.3 . now the vengeance ofeternalifire. What amulet I tell you of chofe Arguments, which out of Reaíon Naturalifts haue drawne ? (hewing of the foule, at leaf ; it mutt be immortali. Firfl, becaufe, they fay, it bath in it no principle of corruption,or ditfolution;being incorporeall,& as force of them taught, immateriall. At the death of the body they wondred not; for they knew it confifled of con- trary Natures ; and therefore carried in it principles of its owne ditrolurion; but for the foule, they thought the originali thereof was Heauenly ; made not of any ele- mentary matter,but, if of any, of the Quintef fence attic Hcauens> - Socondly,Moreouer,they obferned in the foule a kind of infinitenetTe of defiring I. which, nothing that this world affords; was euer able' o fatiare ; and that delire being Naturali, they thought, could not alwaies bee vaine ;but thould at leafl afrerfeparation from the body, finde force infinite good thing, in fruition whereof it thould finde rea, and full Contentment-. Thirdly, Beides they obferued an the molt defperate maintainers of the foules mortalitic towards death, vn- fpeakablefeares wherewith their confciences were fur - prifed. Whence thould they grow ? from perfwafion of vtter dcftru£tion and abolilhmenr? It could not be. For as Tide laid ; The dead, if they be nor, cannot be mile- table. No queffion therefore, from imprctTán of that principle,fatlened in the hearts of all men: ; It it orpeinted to all men once to dte,and after that comet rnent. ZEN 41 was went to fay, he had rather fee one Indian,, 4willicìgiy, and of his own accord go into the fire ro be'otirnt ("their cuftome fee in Yaleruu Maximus : ) then hears all the Philofophers in the world difpute of the foules immnr- tality. His meaning was,that the cheerefulnes they thew- ed in death, was to him a more binding Argument, that the foule wasimmorcal,than all Philoiuphicalfpcculath- Bb; ons.1 403
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