hiaSUvity of Matter, &c. 213

should arise, who could (hew that the soulsof brutes are preserved after death, for somewise purpose of the great Author of nature ;how could this prejudice the cause of theimmortality of the human soul? If this couldhe done, it would as certainly infer that thehuman foul is immortal, as the proving thebrute foul immaterial would certainly provethe human foul immaterial also. It is as farfrom being true that all things floould be dif-ferent in these two species of immaterial sub-stance, as that all things should be the fame-.The Atheist takes it for granted, that thelast of these cases is true; and many goodmen are alarmed lest the first of them shouldnot be true: but both without just grounds.It might be possible to conceive such states°f the immaterialsubfance in brutes, afterthe dissolution of their bodies, as should con-tradict no truth, nor infer any absurdity; andthen such states must at least be not impossible .And in what worse state would the humansoul be for that ? Again, if it should pleasetheir Creator to annihilate them, (for other-wise it will appear by and by, that all imma-terial substance must still subsist) the humansoul is in never the more danger of being re-P 3 duced