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haps to be looked upon as a very great beauty of thecreation, and that which shews the fifing scale of imma-terial beings maintained. It would be a wide gap, if therewere nothing between dead matter and the human foul ;when we fee such a gradation of workmanship and per-fection maintained from rude, unformed earth, throughall the species of plants and animals, up to the human bo-dy. And since the scale of immaterial Beings is thus carri-ed up to the human foul, it cannot certainly end there.Another late Author, I think, speaks more rationally

(Dr. Thomas Burnet’s Demonflration, &c. p. 92.)---■

“ Hence, fays he, it will follow, by necessary confe-" quence, that every rational, sensible, and living crea-" ture must be endued with some immaterial principle," which is the cause of all their rational, sensible, or" animal operations, feV.” And below,Thus much" we may fay with safety, that it is not inconsistent<c with reason, that there may be several degrees and* £ orders of immaterial beings, with different powers and" faculties, according to their different ends; and that“ such of these as are made to actuate bodies, may be“ put into different bodies, according to their different“ capacities; and when the immaterial beings are sep a "" rated from these bodies, so that the bodies are dead," it is not inconsistent to imagine, that they may trans'‘ ‘ migrate into other bodies, and when they have finished‘‘ that course they were made for, they may either atlast be annihilated, or if they are capable of any re-