Date: 1694
"Reason shines less in Children, than in those that are arrived to maturity, yet no Man must imagine that the Soul is an Infant, and grows up with the Child, for then would it again decay; but it suits it self to the weakness of Nature, and the imbecility of Body, wherein it is placed, that it ma...
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Date: 1694
The soul cannot perish "but must, when it is expelled its Earthly Tabernacle, return to God"
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Date: 1694
"The Soul is made of immortal Essence, incapable of Death," and will live "in a Mansion prepared by the Almighty for its Reception" after it is separated from the body
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Date: 1694
"Nay, so far were the Heathens, by the Light of Nature, from doubting the Immortality of the Soul, that Plato in his 'Phaedro' thus reasons; viz. What consists out of Elements (says he) is Immortal and can never dye. The Soul is not made of Elements, nor of created matter, but came from God, and ...
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Date: 1694
"Then may it be without difficulty granted, that the Body which has been a long Companion of the Souls, will once again enjoy it never more to be separated; for the Body at the Resurrection shall be incorruptible and so as far from a capacity of perishing any more as the Soul, made so by him, tha...
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Date: 1694
The body, like a grasshopper that has grown old, may cast off his skin and "a lively new shrill insect will come forth of it"
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Date: 1694
The body may be resurrected, like "a dying and sluggish Catterpiller" that becomes a lively painted Butterfly.
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Date: 1694
The body may be resurrected, like an ant that becomes a "winged fly."
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Date: 1694
The body may be resurrected, like the Silk-worm, which "after many days, seeming dead and motionless, becomes a Butterfly."
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Date: 1694
"But above all, the Phaenix , that the Learned Lactantius writes of, may put us in mind, if not confirm to us the Resurrection, for after she has lived in the Arabian Fields (as some affirm) about 600 Years, and finding her self wasted with Age and Infirmity, she gathers the ...
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