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SECT.
IV.}
PROOF
OF
A
SEPARATE-
STATE.
3O7
some good
assurance on the
contrary
side.
He must
be
a
shrewd
philosopher, indeed,
who,
upon
any
other
hypothesis, can
give
a
tolerable account
of
all
the
narra-.
fives
in
Glanvill's
"
Sadducismus
triumphatus," or Bax-
ter's
"
World
of
Spirits
and Apparitions,"
&c.
Though
I
will
grant
some
of
these stories
have
but
insufficient
proof,
yet
if
there
be
but
one
real apparition
of
a
de-
parted
spirit,
then
the
point
is
gained,
that
there
is
a
separate
state.
And,
indeed, the
scripture itself
seems
to
mention
such
sort
of
ghosts,
or appearances
of
souls
departed;
Matt.
xiv. 26.
When
the disciples
saw
Jesus
walking
on
the
water, they
"
thought it had
been a
spirit;"
And
Luke
xxiv.
37.
after
his
resurrection they
saw
him;
at
once,
appearing
in
the midst
of
them,
"
and they
supposed they had
seen
a spirit
;
and
our
Saviour
doth not
contradict their
notion,
but
argues
with
them
upon
the
supposition
of
the
truth of
it,
a
spirit
bath
not
flesh
and bones
as ye see me to have."
And,
Acts
xxiii.
8,
9.
the word
"
spirit"
seems to signify the
"
ap-
parition of a
departed
soul," where
it
is
said,
"
The
sadducees
say,
there
is
no
resurrection, neither
angel,
nor
spirit,"
and,
verse
9.
"
If
a
spirit,
or
an angel
bath
spoken
to
this
man,"
&c.
A spirit here
is
plainly dis-
tinct
from
an
angel, and
what can it
mean
but
an
appa
--
sition
of a
human
soul which has
left the
body
?
SECTION
IV.
Objections answered.
HAVING
pointed out
so
many springs
of
argument,
to
support
this
doctrine
from
the
word
of
God,
as well as
from
reason and tradition,
.I
proceed
now
to
answer some
particular
objections,
which
are
raised
against
it.
Objection
I.
The scripture
is so
far
from
supposing,
that
the
soul
of
man
is
immortal,
or
that
there
is
any such
thing
as
the
life
of
the
soul
continuing after the death
of
the
body,
that
it often speaks
of
the
death
of
the
soul,
if
the words were
translated
exactly according to the origi-
nal. Numb. xxxi.
19.
"
Whosoever
bath. killed
any
person," hebrew" any
soul.
1
Sam.
xxii.
22:-
"
I
have
occasioned the
death
of
every soul of thy father's house."
Judges
xvi.
30.
"
And Sampson
said,
let
my
soul die
x
,