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ESSAY 'FOWAYD
THE
CSSG'T.:ILI.
L
2.krat.
x.
"8.
"
Fear
not.
them,
which
kill
the
body,
but
are
not able to
bill
the
soul
;
but
rattier fear
him,
wk-to
is
able
to
destroy both
body
:awl
soul in hell."
Every
common reader,
as
well
as every man
of learning,
who
reads
this
text
with
a.
sincere
mind,
and without
preju-
dice,
I
think,
will
acknowledge
at
least,
that
the most
obvious
and
easy sense
of
the words
implies,
that there
is a
soul in man,
which
men
cannot
kill,
event
though
they
bilk
the
body.
It
is
to very
little purpose
of
writers to
say,
that
the
Greek
word.
liUxn,
which,
we
translate
soul here,
Both in
other
places, in
scripture, and
even in
the
39_
verse
of
this
:very
chapter,
signify life,
and consequently here
it
3&Ejy,.
also,.
signify
the animal
life,
or
the
person of
the
man
;
for
it
is
manifest,
that,
in this
place,
it
must
sig-
p<>rf
some immortal principle
in,
man
that cannot
die
;
whereas, when
the body
is
killed, the
animal
life dies too,
and
dares
not
exist
till
the body
is
raised
again
:
But
the
soul,
is
a
principle
in
this
place; which
men.
cannot
kill,
even
Ahough
they
destroy the
life
of
the body: And
w..batsoeverother
senses
the
word
uxn
may
obtain
in
other
tufts,;
that
cannot preclude
such
a
sense.
of
it,
in
this.
text,
s is
most
ursual_
in
itself,
and
which the context
makes
.necessary
in
this.
place.
.Nor
will
it
avail the
supporters of
the
mortality
of
the
soul to
say,
that
this
scripture
means: only,
that
men can
-
not
kill
the soul for ever,
so
that it
shall
for
ever perish,
and
have no
future
life
hereafter
by
a.
resurrection.:
for,
in this
sense,
men.
cannot
kill
the
body,
so
that it
shall
never
revive,,
or
rise
again:
But,
here
.is
a
plain
distinc-
tion
in
the text,
that
the
body may be killed,
but
the soul
cannot.
And
I
think this
scripture
proves
also,
that, though
the body
may
be
laid
to sleep in
the
grave,
yet the
soul
cannot,be
laid'
to
sleep.;
for the
substance
of
t
e
bodyy
still exists,
and
is
not
utterly destroyed
by killing
it,
but
only:
laid
to sleep for
a
time, as
the
scripture
often de-
scribes death
:
But
the
soul
cannot
be
thus
laid.
to-sleep
for
a
time, with
its substance
still existing, for
that
would be
to
have
no
pre
-
eminence.
above
the
body,
which
is
contrary to
this
assertion of our
Saviour.
H.
Luke
xvi.:
2.27-28.
"The.
beggar died;
and
was
carried
by
angels into Abraham's
bosom.
The
rich
mari