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will not acknowledge that there is any spirit or substance distinct from the body . I wonder what tbey think doth keep their bodies from stinking .
" T . H . He comes here to that which is a great paradox in school divinity * The grounds of my opinion are the canonical scripture . My doctrine is this , first , that the elect in Christ from the day of
judgment forward by virtue of his passion and victory over death , shall enjoy eternal life , that is , be immortal : secondly , that there is no living soul separated in place
from the body , more than there is a living body separated from the soul : thirdly , that the reprohate shall be revived to judgment , und shall die a second death in
torments , winch death shall be everlasting . Now let us consider what is said to these points in scripture . And first , because the word immortal soul is not found in
scripture , the question is to be decided by evident consequence from scripture . The scripture sakh of God expressly , that he only hath immortality * Hence it folioweth , that the soul of man
is not by its own nature immortal , but by the grace or gift of God . And then the question will be , whether this grace or gift were bestowed on the soul in the
creation and conception of the man , or afterwards by his redemption . Another question will be , in what sense immortality of torments can be called a g ift , when all gifts suppose the thing given to be grateful to the receiver .
< c It is plain , from the words of St . Paul to the Romans , that God gives eternal life only to well-
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doers , and to them that seek ( not to them that have ) immortality .
" Fear not them that can kill the body , but are not able to kill the soul ; but fear Him that is able to kill both soul and body in hell /* Man cannot kill a soul , for the man killed shall revive again but God can destroy the soul and
body in hell , as that it shall netfer return to life , 6 C Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire , prepared for the devil and his angels . ' * These words are to be spoken in the day of judgment , which judgment is to be in the clouds .
"I . D » Mr . Hobbeshath killed the great infernal devil , and all his black angels , and left no devils to be feared but devils incarnate , that is wicked men ; and as for the damned spirits , he declareth himself every where , that their sufferings are not eternal . If
he had said only , that the pains of the damned may be lessened as to the degree of them , or that they etfdure not for ever , but that they are purged by long torments from their dross and corruptions as gold in the fire , and restored
to a better condition , he might have found some ancients ( who are therefore called the merciful doctors ) to have joined with him , though still he would have wanted the suffrage of the Catholic Church .
" T . H , Why does not his lordship cite some place of scripture to prove that reprobates shall live eternally . They shall indeed be casU into hell ; but scripture * ays , plainly enough , that they shall be destroyed there , both soul and body . If I had said that the devils themselves should be restored
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Passage from Hobbe $ 9 on the Destruction of the Wicked . 757
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1814, page 757, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2447/page/29/
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