erne  pafTage  in  favour  of  fuch  a  doctrine.
However,  the  fcriptures  they  produce  will  be
particularly  confidered  hereafter ;  by  which',  it
is  hoped,  the  juftice  of  this  remark  will  be  fuf*
ficiently  fupported.  *

I  4.  It

*  To  evade  the  force  of  the  numerous  declarations  and
threatnings  of  the  future  punifhment  of  the  wicked,  which
have  been  recited  in  th«  foregoing  pages,  they  who  deny
that  any  man  will  be  punUhed  in  the  future  ftate,  have  fu&~
gtftcd  the  following  things.
It  has  been  faid,  Thefe  th'reatnings  are  all  leveled  againfl  the
flns  of  men  ;  and  that  thefe  fins  or  evil  principles  m  mtny  when
ftparated  from  tkem,  fhall  be  punijhed.
But  to  talk  of  the  exigence  and  punifhment,  pain  and
fufferings  of  fins  or  evil  principles  in  men,  when  fcparated
from  thofe  Who  finned,  and  they  arc  made  perfectly  happy9
is  too  abfurd  and  ridiculous  to  need  a  ferious  and  formal
anfwer.  And  \i  is  difficult  to  conceive  how  any  man  can  be
fatisfied  with  fuch  a  folution;  or  even  believe  what  he  advances.
