SECT. IV.] PROOF OF A SEPARATE STATE. 309 well as when he was alive. Numb..vi. 6. " He shall ,come at no dead body, in' the hebrew, no dead soul," that is, no dead man or woman, or perhaps no dead animal. . Since the word soul is taken so often, and so com- monly, to 'signify the person of a man or woman, no wonder that there is so, frequent mention_of souls dying in the scripture, when human persons die. And if ,the. soul signify a man or woman when they are :dead, as well as when living, here is a fair account why the scriptures may speak of the souls going down to the grave, or being delivered from the grave, &c. Ps. lxxxix. 48. " Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave ?" This may either denote his principle; of animal life, or his person, that is, himself. Now this account of things is very consistent with the scriptural doctrine Of the distinction of the intelligent soul of man from his body, and the intelligent soul's survival of the body, nor do any of these scriptural ex- pressions, concerning the soul, forbid this supposition : For though, .in some places, the world soul signifies the person of the man, or his body, or that animal principle which may die, yet, in other places, it signifies that intel- ligent or thinking principle, which cannot die, as we have before proved, where our Saviour tells us, we should not fear them that kill the body, but cannot kill the soul." Wheresoever the scripture speaksof a soul's beingkilled, it only means that the person, who was mortal, is slain; that is, the life of the body is destroyed, and the man, considered as a compound being, made up of soul and body is, in some sense, dissolved, when one part of the composition dies. But where the soul signifies the intel- lectual principle in man, it is never said to die, unless where the word death means a loss of happiness, or living in misery : but this implies natural life still, for this soul cannot naturally be destroyed by any power but that which made it. If any person object that the apostle in Acts ii. 31. says, The soul of Christ was not left in hell, or the grave ;" for so the word in the hebrew may signify F. xvi. 10. whence this is cited ; there is, a sufficient answer to be given to this two or three ways. It may be con- strued, that th principle of the animal life of Christ, was not left to c tinue in death; or that the person of x'3
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