A System of Religion: Singular and Surprising (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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The other principle of the Soul's sleeping, might have. Been supported by the same arguments; as also a philosophical turn might have been given to his excluding all immaterial beings out of his system of religion: For some Philosophers teach, by many strong arguments, that man can have no notion of an immaterial sub stance: And some go so far as to say, it is nonsense, since all our ideas are of what our external senses see, or compounded of what they have seen, which can be nothing but matter.

Now, who could have expected that these principles could be con sistent with Christianity, or with any religion at all? Yet, you see here, he hath a complete system of Christianity, agreeable to the Soul's sleeping, and that there is no Immaterial Being; and has proved, that the Soul of man lives not, but during the life of the body till the resurrection.

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