4552 OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS. hated and blasphemed his name. It is the glory and the interest of the supreme Ruler of the universe, to make aconspicuous and awful distinction in one world or another, between those who have endeavoured to serve him, and to renderhis majesty honour- able among men, and those who have impiously abused all his favours, ridiculed his thunder, and robbed him of his choicest honours. But if philosophy should fail us here, if it were possi- ble fbr creatures of such different characters to have nothing in their own natures which was immortal, yet it is a very reasonable thing, that the great Judge of all should prolong their beings beyond this mortal state, that the sons of vice might not go triumphant off the stage of existence, and that the men of vir- tue might not be alwaysopprest, nor come to a periodof their being, without some testimony of the approbation of the God that made them.
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