...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...

...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...

...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...

...reason. Since in other parts of his work he seems to intimate not only a diffidence but a disbelief of the Immortality of the Soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments, and especially in his letters, where he is supposed to declare his mind with the greatest frankness. But...

...reason. Since in other parts of his works he seems to intimate, not only a diffidence, but a disbelief of the immortality of the soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments, and especially in his letters, where he is supposed to declare his mind with the greatest frankness. But...

...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...

...principles of it, which pass for the discoveries of modem ages, 305 ; he believed a God, a providence, the immortality of the soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments, 305, 306 ; his opinion of the religion of Rome considered, 307 ; an observation of Polyhius...

...but local oracles had not attained any great celebrity. It is important to add, that the doctrines of the immortality of the soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments, were taught in those days; but the ridiculous absurdities with which these were accompanied,...