3°6 ESSAY TOWARD' THE {SECT. V. Objection XII. How comes death to be called, so often in scripture, a sleep, if the soul wakes all the while Answer. Why is the repose of the man every night called sleep, since the soul wakes, as appears bya thou- sand dreams ? But as a sleeping man ceases to act in the businesses or affairs of this world, though the soul be not dead, or unthinking ; so death is called sleep, be- cause, du-ring that state, men are cut off from the busies nesses of this world, though the soul may think and act in another. Objection .XIII; The scripture speaks often of the general judgment of mankind at the last great day of the resurrection, but it does not teach us the doctrine of a particular judgment, which the soul is supposed to pas under, whenevery'single man dies: why then should wé invent such a supposition, or believe such a doctrine, of 'a particular judgment in a separate state? Answer. It is evident in many scriptures, as we have shewn before, that the souls of men, after death, are re- presentedas enjoying pleasure or punishment in the se- parate state. The soul of Lazarus in heaven, the soul of Dives in hell, the soul of Paul, as being " present with' theLord, which is far better," than dwelling in this flesh, or being present with this body, &c. Therefore there must be a sort ofjudgment, or sentence of determina- tion,, passed upon every such soul by the great God, whether it shall be happy or miserable: For 'it can never be súpposed, that happiness or misery shouldbe given to such souls without the determination of God, the judge of all : And perhaps, that text, lieb. ix. 27. refers to it, "It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment;" that is, immediately after it. Or suppose that, in the separate state, the pleasures or sorrows, which attend, souls departing from the body, should he only such as are the necessaryconsequents of a life spent in the practice of vice or virtue, of religion or ungodliness, without any formalities of standing be- fore a judgment-seat, or a solemn sentence ofabsolution or condemnation ;:yet the very entrance' upon this state, whether it be of peace or of torment, 'must be supposed to signify, that the state of that soul is adjudged or de- termined by the great governor of the world ; And this
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