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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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