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The  late  Dr.  Cheyne  held  this  World  to  be  a  State
of  Punifhment,  and  in  his  Difcourfes,  P.  27,  fays,  r—

*  Some  Individuals  may  be  delivered  fooner,  fome  later,

*  according  as  their  Expiation  and  Purification  is  per-

*  fefted  ;  and  at  laft,  the  whole  Syftem  and  all  its  In-
^  habitants,  muft  naturally  and  neceflarily,  but  harmo-
'  nioufly  or  analogically,  and  according  to  general
'  Laws,  undergo  fome  great  and  violent  Crife,  and  an
'  univerfal  Gaol  Delivery  will  be  brought  about,  but
'  when  and  how  this  will  be  accomplifhedj  is  beyond
^  Conjedlure.'

Dr  Thomas  Burnet,  Mafterof  the  Charter -Houfcy
and  Author  of  a  Book  entitled,  The  'Theory  of  the  Earthy
left  a  Treatife  in  Latin,  that  was  not  printed  in  Eng-
lifti  before  his  Death,  entitled,  7he  State  of  departed  Souh-y
Page  343,  he  fays, — '  The  Soul  flies  from  the  Thought
'  and  abhors  the  Remembrance  of  everlafting  Mifery  :

*  and  feveral  things  have  occurred  to  me,  while  I  have
'  been  thinking  on  this  Subjedl,  by  which  I  am  fenli-

*  ble  that  others  have  been  perfuaded,  as  well  as  my-
'  felf.     That  God  neither  will   or    can    endure   the

*  perpetual  Affliction  and  Torment  of  his  own  Crea-r '
'  tures.' —  P.  344.    <  That  God  (hould  condemn  his
'  own  Creatures  to  a  State  of  Eternal  Mifery,    and
'  fhould  retain  them  in  that  State,  feemsto  be  repug-

*  nant  both  to  Divine  Wifdom  and  Goodnefs,   and  I

*  may  add  likewife,  to  Jufl;ice.'

The  2-d  Volume  of  The  World  Unma/k'd,  or  The  Phi-
lofopher  the  greatejl  Cheat ^  tranflated  from  t\iQ  French,  is  a
Series  of  Letters,  proving  from  Scripture  and  Reafon
the  Reftoration  of  all  Men,

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