...so diffused to all mankind x. The like may be said of the doctrine of an overruling providence, and of the immortality of the soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments. These general principles, so universally believed and taught in all ages and countries,...

...infinitely to overbalance the pleasure and profit accruing from his crimes. Hence the belief of a God, the immortality of the soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments have been esteemed useful engines of government. And to the end that these notional airy...

...infinitely to overbalance the pleasure and profit accruing from his crimes. Hence the belief of a God, the immortality of the soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments have been esteemed useful engines of government. And to the end that these notional airy...

...sacred things ; a practical recognition of the superintending providence of God ; a Jinn belief in the immortality of the soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments ; are fundamental principles of true religion. To the existence in the public mind of these...

...infinitely to overbalance the pleasure and profit accruing from his crimes. Hence the belief of a God, the immortality of the soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments have been esteemed useful engines of government And to the end that these notional airy...

...a resurrection morn. If, indeed, reason, instructed by nature and aided by tradition, has conceived of the immortality of the soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments, the conception has been formed so dimly, and held with so little certainty, as rather...

...ptobarit ; nullam oppugnavit, quam non everterit. ence and character of God, the divine government, the immortality of the soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments ? These are the fundamental truths of religion, and it is on these, more than on all things...

...and ruler of all. CHAPTER XXXVI. Future state — Rewards and punishments. 1. THE Greeks believed in the immortality of the soul and a future state of rewards and punishments. They imagined, that, after death, the souls of men descended to the shores of a dismal...

...and other sublime and beautiful objects in nature : they acknowledged a superintending providence, the immortality of the soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments ; but with these purer doctrines was connected the Pythagorian tenet of transmigration,...

...reason, — but that when believed by mankind, its operation is salutary. Blount strenuously maintains the immortality of the soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments ; and a writer of the same school remarks, that, " to say, man's soul dies with the body, is a desperate...