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The Fourth, That there (hall be a FutureState, wherein Men shall be puniihed or re-warded, accordingly as they have done ill orwell in this Life, and that State Eternal: th6the first part may be demonstrated from theJustice and Goodness of God, because therebeing an unequal distribution of Good andEvil in this Life, there must be a time to setthings streight in another World; yet it beingso difficult to Human Reason, to reconcile theEternity of Punishments, with the Justice andGoodness of God, this second part of the Tra-dition had need be well back’dby Divine Au-thority to make it credible and current amongMen.,

As for the Last, tlio’ I meddle not with itin this Treatise, yet I will take leave to sayso much concerning it, That I think thosewho held Sacrificing to have been a positiveCommand of God, and to have had its Ori-ginal from Divine Institution, have the betterreason on their fide, ' For that it is no eternaland indispensable Law of Nature, is clear, inthat our Saviour abolished it. And many ofthe Ancient Fathers look upon Sacrificing asso unreasonable a Service, that therefore theythought God commanded it not to the Primi-tive Patriarchs - and though he did commandit to the sews, yet he did it only in conde-scension to their weakness, because they had

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