of the World.

Tame Verse, when applied to opposites,should be taken in a different fense. But bythe consent of ail Christians it is granted,that the Life of the Blessed shall be eternal,therefore so must the Punishment of theDamned be too.

This acception of the word cdcivio; foreternal or endlefi , when it refers to the stateof those miserable Persons, receives a furtherand strong confirmation from the

Second Particular we proposed, that is,Qniversal Tradition It being a received O-pinion among the Heathen, which must needsdescend down to them by Tradition fromthe Ancients, that Eternal Punishments a-Waited the Wicked after Death.

What more common Notion among theGrecians and Romans , than of an Elysium ,and Tartarus ? the former to reward goodMen, the latter to punish wicked. Andthose too esteemed to be Eternal States. Ofthis the Epicurean Poet Lucretius is a suffi-cient and unexceptionable Witness : Forhe makes the fear of these Punishments tobe the cause of all the Miseries of HumaneLite, and the Foundation of all Religion,

Ætemas quoniam peenas in morse timen-dum.

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