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SECT.
IT.1
PROOF
OF
A
SEPARATE STATE.
285
Luke
ix. 30,
31.
"
And behold
there
talked
with him
that
is,
with
Jesus,
two men,
which
"were
Moses
and
Elias,
who
appeared
in glory,
and spade
of
his
decease,
which
he
should accomplish
at
Jerusalem."
I
grant
it
possible,
that
these might
be
but
mere
visions,
which
ap-
peared
to
our
blessed Saviour,
and
his
apostles
:
But
it
is
a
much more
natural
and
obvious
interpretation,
to
suppose,
that
the spirits
of
these
two
great
men,
whereof
one
was
the
institutor, and
the
other
the
reformer
of
the
Jewish
church,
did
really
appear
to Christ,
who was
the
reformer
of
the world,
and the
institutor
of
the christian
church, and
converse with
him
about
the
important event
of
his
death, and
his
return
to
heaven.
Perhaps, the
spirit
of
Elijah
had
his
heavenly
,
body with him
there,
since
he
never died,
but
was
carried
alive to
heaven
:
but
Moses gave
up
his soul,
-at the
call
of
God,
when
no
man
was
near
him,
and
his.body
was
buried
by
God
him=
self. See
2
Kings
-ii.
11.
and
Deut.
xxxiv.
4,
5, 6.
and
his
spirit
was
probably
made
visible,
Only,
by
"an
as-
sumed vehicle, for
that
purpose.
John.
v.
24.
"Whoso
heareth
my
word,
and believ-
eth
on him
that
sent
me,
bath everlasting
life.
-is
passed
from death to
life
;"
Join
vi.
47, 50,
51.
"
This
is
the
bread,
which cometh down from
-
heaven,
that-
a man may
eat
thereof, and
not
die.
If
any man eat
of
this
bread,
he shall live
for ever."
John
xi.
26.
"
Whoso liveth,
and believeth
in me,
shall never die
:"
To
which may be
added
the words
of
Christ
to the
woman
of Samaria:
John
iv:
14.
"
The
water,
that
I
shall give him, shall be
in him
a
well
of
water, springing
up into everlasting
lì-fe;"
1
John
v. 12.
"
Ile
that
bath
the
Son,
bath
life, &c."
The
argument,
I
draw from these
scriptures,
is
this.
It
is
hardly
to be
supposed,
that
our
Saviour, in this gospel,
and.
John,
in his first epistle,
imitating
him,
should
speak
such strong language
concerning eternal
life,
actually
given
to,
and
possessed
by
the believers
of that
day,
if
there
must be an
interruption
of
it
by
total
death, or
sleep,
both
of
soul
and
body,
for almost
two
thousand
years,
that
is,
till
the resurrection.
Acts
vii.
59.
And they
stoned Stephen, calling
upon God, and
saying,
Lord Jesus,
receive
my
spirit."
These
who
deny a
separate
state,
seppese that
Stephen,
here, commits
his
spirit, or
principle
of
human
life,
into