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involved in a shipwreck, or any commoncalamity with profligate and wicked men ;what becomes of our conclusion, if it is onlysuggested, that such a person, if innocents ismade sooner happy, or is not innocent , is pu-nished more lightly , that is, is made less mise-rable , than otherwise he would have been f Inshort, there is no determining here on theside of Atheism, without supposing the pointin dispute, viz. That there is no after state.But this only by the by, from the instanceof shooting the bow, and the particular ofuniting souls to bodies. We shall have oc-casion afterwards to consider the train of ob-jections which the Atheist musters up.

XXXVI. It will, no doubt, be objected,‘That this proof of the immateriality of thefold , sews at the fame titne the immaterialityof the fouls of brutes , and of every livingthing , as well as of the rationalfoul ; so thatthis either proves nothing, or more thanshould be proved. In answer to which it lSfreely owned, that the necessity of an imma-terial substance, in brutes as well as men, lSequally certain from what is said here. If

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