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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 speaks

of

a

soul's being

killed,

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

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