A

DISCOURSE

Concerning the

Happiness of Good Men,

AND THE

Punishment of the Wicked,

IN THE

NEXT WORLD, &c.
Under the following HEADS: Viz.

I. Concerning the true Rea-IV.
fon and Foundation of our
Faith and Hope of Immor- V.
tal Life.

II. Concerning the Natural

and Moral Arguments of a
Future State.

III. What farther Evidence
the Law of Mofes gives us
of the Immortality of the
Soul, and a Future State.

Concerning the Gospel
Evidence of Immortal Life.
That Salvation, which is
wrought for us by Chrift,
gives us the most fure and
certain Hopes of a bleffed
Immortality.

VI. The Conclufion. A Com-

parison between the Gain of
the World, and the Lofs
of the Soul.

By WILLIAM SHERLOCK, D. D.
late Dean of St. PAUL'S.

The FIFTH EDITION.

LONDON:

Printed for J.WALTHOE, J. J. and P. KNAPTON, A.BETTESWORTH
and C. HITCH, R. ROBINSON, J. PEMBERTON, B. MOTTE,
J. WALTHOE, jun. T. LONGMAN, J. CLARKE, and D. BROWN.

MDCCXXXV.

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5 26 25

THE

CONTENTS.

THE Introduction,

СНАР.

I.

Page 1.

Concerning the True Reafon and Foundation of our
Faith and Hope of Immortal Life,
P. 3.
Sect. 1. That we must refolve the Certainty of our
Faith as to another Life wholly into a Divine Re-
velation,

Sect. 2. Of what Use Natural and Moral Arguments

are for the Proof of the Immortality of the Soul, and

a Future State,

CHA P. II.

Ibid.

P. 26.

P. 15.

Concerning the Natural and Moral Arguments of a

Future State,

Sect. 1. That there is no Appearance of Reafon against

the Belief of another Life,

Sect. 2. The first Natural Argument for Immortality,

from the Nature of the Soul,

Sect. 3. The Immortality of the Soul proved from the

Univerfal Confent of Mankind in this Belief,

P. 27.

P. 46.

P. 70.

A Digreffion concerning Connate Ideas, or Inbred

Knowledge,
P. 77.

Sect. 4. The Immortality of the Soul prov'd, from the

Natural Defires of Immortality, and the Justice of

the Divine Providence,

CHA P. III.

P. 101.

What farther Evidence the Law of Mofes gives us

of the Immortality of the Soul and a Future State,

Sect. 1. The Mofaical Evidence, for the Immateriality

of the Soul,

P. 116.

Ibid.

Sect. 2.

Sect. 2. Concerning the Universal Confent in the Be-

lief of a Future State, and the Natural Defires of

Immortality.

P. 128.

Sect. 3. The Mofaical Evidence of a Future State,

from the Divine Providence,

P. 141.

Sect. 4. The Immortality of the Soul prov'd from God's

Covenant with Abraham,

p. 150.

Sect. 5. The Proofs of the Immortality of the Soul, from

the Law of Mofes,

CHA P. IV.

'p. 189.

Concerning the Gospel-Evidence of Immortal Life,

P. 203.

Se&t. 1. The Gospel-Notion of Life and Immortality,
Ibid.

Sect. 2. The Gospel-Promifes of Life and Immorta-

lity,
P. 209.

Sect. 3. The Promifes of Immortal Life confirm'd by

the Refurrection of Chrift from the Dead, p. 228.

CHA P. V.

That Salvation which is wrought for us by Chrift, gives

us the most fure and certain Hopes of a blessed Im-

mortality,

p. 242.

Sect. 1. That we must be faved by a Saviour; and

what kind of Saviour Sinners want,
Ibid.

Sect. 2. The Eternal Godhead of our Saviour is the

only certain Foundation of all our Hopes of Salvati-

on, and Immortal Life.
P. 257.

Sect. 3. The Visible Reconciliation of human Nature

in the Incarnation of the Son of God, p. 278.

Sect. 4. The Death of Chrift a true Expiatory Sacri-

fice to redeem Mankind from Death,
P. 286.

Sect. 5. The Conquest of Death by the Death and Re-

furrection of Christ,

P. 318.

Sect. 6. The Covenant of Pardon and Immortal Life,

fealed with the Blood of Christ,

P. 354.

The Conclufion. A Comparison between the Gain

of the World, and the Lofs of the Soul,

2

P. 377.

A DIS

A

DISCOURSE

OF THE

Immortality of the SOUL,

AND A

FUTURE STATE.

The INTRODUCTION.

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HE Serious Confideration of Death and Judgment is abfolutely neceffary to the Wife and Religious Government of our Lives. That we muft die, difparages all prefent Enjoyments; and if we fuffer fuch Thoughts to fink into our Souls, they naturally moderate our Affections, and fet bounds to our ufe of them. That we fhall be judged, and rewarded and punished,

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