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SECT.
v.]
PROOF OF
A
SEPARATE STATE.
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beheaded heretofore, shall
rise again in
the
world,
and
the
professors
of
it,
in
that
day,
shall
be
in flourishing
circumstances, for
a thousand
years,
or
a
very long
sea-
son
:
So
that,
in
prophetic
language,
these
words do
not
signify
the same
individual martyrs
or
confessors,
but
their
successors in
the
same faith 4nd
practice.
Or,
if
there should
be
any resurrection
of
good
men
to
an
animal
life in
this world,
foretold
by
the prophets,
and intended
by
the
great
and
blessed
God,
I
doubt
not
but
they would
be
here
so
far separated
from the wicked
world, where
sins
and sorrows reign,
that it
would be
a
gradual advance
of
their happiness
beyond
what
they en-
joyed
before
in
the
separate
state.
Objection
XI.
Though
man
is
often said
to be
a
compound
creature
of
soul
and
body,
yet
in
scripture
he
is
represented
as
one being
:
it
is
the
man
that
is
born,
that
lives,
that
dies,
that
sleeps,
or
wakes,
and
that
rises from
the dead. This
is
evident,
in
many places
of
scripture,
where these things are
spoken
of
:
and
it
seems
to
be
the
law
of
our nature or
being,
that
we
should
al-
ways
act
and
live in
such
a
state, as
souls
united
to
bodies, and never in
a
state
of
separation.
Answer.
Though there are
several
scriptures, which
represent
man as one
being, viz. soul
and
body
united,
yet
there are
many
other scriptures,
which
'have
been
cited
in
the former parts
of
this
essay,
wherein the
souls
and
the
bodies
of
men
are represented
as
two
very
dis-
tinct
things: The
one goes to the grave
at
death,
and
the
other, either into Abraham's
bosom,
or
to
a place
of
tor-
ment; either
to
dwell
with God, to
be
present
with
Christ
the
Lord, and
to become one
of
the spirits
of
the
just
made perfect, or
to
go
to
their
own
place, as
Judas
did.
Now, those
texts, where
man
is
represented
as
one
being, may be
explained
with
very
great
ease,
consider-
ing man as
made up
of
two
distinct
substances,
viz.
body
and spirit,
united into
one
personal
agent, as
we
have
shewn before
:
But
the several
texts,
where the
soul
and
body are
so
strongly and plainly distinguished,
as
has
been
before
represented, there
is
no possible
way
of re-
presenting
these
scriptures,
but
by supposing
a separate
state of
existence for souls
after the body
is
dead, which
makes
it
necessary,
that
this
exposition
should
take
place.
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