...necessary to teach the way of expiation and atonement for sin ; necessary to teach the rule of duty, the immortality of the soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments; necessary to teach the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, as renewing and consoling the heart,...

...ancient fathers do not enter into the question, except incidentally, as to the belief of the Jews in the immortality of the soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments ; for it does not appear in the early history of the church to have been much controverted,...

...success. Warburton, shewed (Div. Leg. of Moses,) that one end of the mysteries, was to teach the doctrine of the immortality of the soul and a future state of rewards and punishment. These facts he did prove, though I consider his theory on the subject incorrect. Bryant,...

...necessary to teach the way of expiation and atonement for sin; necessary to teach the rule of duty, the immortality of the soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments; necessary to teach the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, as renewing and consoling the heart,...

...Being, who has created a regular gradation of beings, some superior and some inferior to man; and in the immortality of the soul, and a future state of rewards and punish* ments, which is to consist in a transmigration into different bodies according to the lives...

...perversion when uncontrolled by any higher principle. Cicero, it is true, maintained, that a belief in the immortality of the soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments, was indispensable to the steady sacrifice of private interests and passions to the public...

...countries, and the superstitious ceremonies of their faith bear the same close resemblance. In their belief of the immortality of the soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments, there is nothing peculiar or new. The late occupier of the hut in which we reside died...

...account of that time which was given you to prepare and educate yourself for eternity ! Yet you believe the immortality of the soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments. Ask your own heart what rewards you deserve, or what kind of felicity you are fitted to...

...countries, and the superstitious ceremonies of their faith bear the same close resemblance^ In their belief of the immortality of the soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments, there is nothing peculiar or new. The late occupier of the hut in which we reside died...

...remarked, were of a more refined and rational nature than those of most other Heathen priests ; they taught the immortality of the soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments ; their morality was at once mild and strict, and their denunciation of the sins they specified...