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Show 560' Tbe Chridian-Qu;~ker, and biJ Vol\ l. ~ Firjl, he faid, Tbr~r rbe S~ul i.r Immor~a!. . - . . " Next, {a) Tbnt the Soul u lncorrupnhk, 11 1ftvcr dyetb ~[or when rt goes •ut of rbe Body ir goes into the ot!JCJ: World, the Pure to God, the Impure bound by Furies in indi!foluble Cbaws. Chap. XI. plut.PI.at. :;oh: Phyf. Plat. Phed. Clem. Alex. Strom. 1.3. Pliit, Phed .. Idem, .nc '-'V Here Immortality and Rewards are afi"erted. . . (b) But r.cl:ren a J11mr, who btJih li.ved .1~t.flly, dutb, bu Soul afc~ndeth to the pure 1E1 her (or Heav,en) 4 •11f1 hve.r m the Happy lEvum (or Evcrllljlillg /lge) with tbe BlcjJ<d. , . ll. Heraclitur. If my &dy h< ovcr-prifrt!, tt mujld~fcend to .the dtfli!t'd Pli1u: 1\'tvcrtbelifr, my Soul (h:lll not defcend, but bemg a Thmg lmrnor~ tal, fha!l fly up on high to Heaven. III. &npid~~. a <;irav'e Traga·dtan, whofe Work was to undo what Wnron Comlt!dimu had done to_ undo the People, fpeaks thus, (t). Wbo knowezb, fJ'Jbetber to Dye b~ not to Lrve, an,d _ro Ltve to Pye. . . . Surely be faid fo not of any Diltrufl of Immortality, but m Belief of it, and that Reward that woul(,i attend Good ~e~. . IV; So<rntn. (d) Thr Body being Compound til, "Dijfolvrd hy Death; The Soul being Simple, patrerh imo another Life, incapabl~ of Corruption. • (e) The Soul of th< Good afur Dwb •te in an happy Ejlate, unittd to God in a Bleffed inaceel]ible Place : The Bad m Convement Pi(lce.r Suffer Cond1gn Po~nifo.ment. · Tliis puts the Cafe of the S11ffi(ienc1 of the Light" to difcover lmmorr~ tity to the-very Heathen, Out of all Doubt, and not only fo, but Rewardz" too. fince we have them here believing, The Righteous !hall be Saved, and ~he Wicked Damned. T,his made Sorratu fo chearf~:I.l at his Death, 'fomething of which I think fit here to intert. (f) Truly, fays he, did I not be/iroe I jh~u!d to to the J•ft God, andto .i11en beuer tlr1111 any Living, I were inexc~{tthic jor contem11ing Dea1b: But" I am fure to go to God, a very good Mailer, and hope to meet with VR~ .illen, and mn of go~d Courage, hoping tb~t fometbing of Ma-:r _/itb/ifls ;j;q peath. antltbat it zs tben 11111Cb better wub the Good thoR With the Ba'll. Wh;n he had made an End of fpeaking, Crito (one of his Foflowers) asKed him, wha~ Diretlions be would leave c;onct:rning Jtis Sons, ,_~1,1d o· th~r . /dfairs; and if they could do any thing that mig,hr. be acceiH~M;. co him? ' I rlefire (IO more (faith he) t/Jan what I ~at)e ojrcnto!d .,yor/, ,1/ Yfll ide Care of y9u.r feluf-r, whatfoever;·ou dot mil he acceptable ro m~ /rit(l , 111inc tbough you promife notbtng; 1 you neglell yo11r felvf.t ~nd- Vmu~ }"tJU ~an do noibi"g acceptable. to rn, though you promif.e neve[ fq 401uch. Th:Jt anfwer•d· Crit~, we lhall obferve ; But how wift thou he buried~ .tl-r-,;11 rhink good_ (faid he? If you ~an c~tch me, and that I give YD* nor rbe Stir. Then wah a Smite ,applymg htmfelf unto us, I catm~r pufwade Criro (fJith he) thnt I am tdtjthmg nJDrt tban the Carca.fr you wr/1 anon be~ Jqld, and therefore he t~ker thit. Care for .my Ente-rmenr : lt feems, tb~ 1<1h.d c.ven ndtb I told b1m, t~at a; foon ar I have rak<n 1~' Po;;: a~, I fh,n g9 to t.hc Joys ol . the Ble,lf~d, botb D!<n .t•lml< ;r~reP.(( .• '1ie '"" 1/11 /J411, botmd ro tbe judges for my .Appearonu, you mufl now Je .S.ureries to him, Obfer\"e tlMt I nm Departed: Let him not .fay, That SOCRATES Is carried ro S/Jcr.uu his <he Gtave, or ,laid unde~ Gi~ound y.f~r. lr.Row~ lear Criro, £d1,'t1 ]f!i.Jftr.' ~~i~i~~ing wer.e a. Wrong ~o my Souli /Je npt Je1e8eJ, Tell rhe Wor..td, 'I Body oqly De-ad and js. ~urie~, and 1luzr a/ter1J1hat Ma,ner flJf~~t pleif!.ft. 1~1\~ faah Spcrat~l) Departed. I maj pray ID_; 1 God, and w;~. riMt my Pafffz&" lttJI~ ma)' ht.{1Jftf!.£, (g) -fiJbUb I befeech bi111to graqt. A'!'l:iP~hl'! fame,jnJlant ,JJra~k it ,fJ.(f eajilj, w)lh· cJut any Difturbance. -1 " 1 1!. J ~i ·~ it fb~ ~2'~r~~a-:• 1J,I~• ~~~ t\o 7• ~ , • -.1 ..,19 u 1 ,.~T (t) (t) 2 Cor. ~· 8. Phihp. •· 21. 11 (d) E.ccler. 12, 7• 1 I ( ) (') The Sheep on the .Ri&ht Hpnd, and the 9~~ ~n the Left, JY.(f., a~. l'·~ fWilo:) (j") 1 cor. ''i· 28-, 29, 3o, 3'· Tbit .. VoL. I. Teftim.ony Stated and Vindicated. This (faith Plato) .'"'11th< End of tbe Brjl, tbt Wifejl, ond mofl J•fl of J67,_ 1Uen. A Story, Whlch Ctcero. profefr!!th he never read without Tears ~ This ends Socrattr upon th~ _Rreft;nt Subjea ~ and Happy Man w~s he Chap. XI. to make fo happy an End, as to Dye for the only nu~ God, He had gre:J.t Reafon to ~lieve. (mau_gre .the Em•iou~ Uncharitablencfs of fomc) that h~ ~ould reward h1m, when J,t ihall be fatd to rnan_y bawling pretend· ed Chnfh~ns, Drpart [rom me; I lcnow you not ; For aJ ftlen fow, Jo (haU they reap t11 t1Je Day of God. I need not to tell the World, that Plato and other Heatbthr have wri .. ten ,accurately u~on t~at Subje8-, when it j$ (o notorious: Wherefore . tq d?f~ ~p my ~ethmomes upon this Head, and whole Difoourfe of GentlkDwr, tuty, I will prefent the Reader with two lhort Parf:Jges, the one from Virgtl; the other of the Pyrbagorean.r, thus rranflat('d ro my Hand only a little varied by an ingenious Author. ' V. Donee 1011£tt Die.r J!erfedo temporir Orbe C011cretam exemit La6em, pur11mg_ue reliquit .lEtbereum Sen fum, ottpte a11rai jimplicir ignt.m. In Englijh thus: 'Till that long Day at Jail be come abom That wafted hlS all Filth and foul Defire, And le~\'es the Soul <:rcleflial throughout, Bathmg her Senfcs In Pure Liquid File. r J I I " To which agrees that Golden Diflich of the Pythagorean; as it hath been called ; ' .VI. "Hv Jo' ilffMI,.f.r x;,_,.. ;, •~~ UtuJ-•ro~ b.~111• "hrliiJ «~J.,c,T@-, e.~~·.t~@-, ;1(. ht&fl!Ta(. . To this Purpofe; Who afte! Death once reach the Heavenly Plain, Become like God, and never Dye again. Th.e Greek hJs it, as I1nmortal GoJ.r. lVhich Hieroc!u interprets thu's: Herem flllll Good Men Rcfrmh!t t~e Deity, that they fhall be Immoml lrke GOd hrmfel£ 1 Thus, Reader. have l given thee a very true Account of the Gentile· Divinity, what was the Faith, what the Prallice, and what the Prophuy ~~~~~~ 1oUo~~rs~entiles through this Light within, each of which had Virg. Jt.n~id .. Lib.6. '"· 745· Pythag. Aur • Carm. "' Obferve, They begary Where Jews and Cbriflianr began, thJr is, with GoJ-, and ~hey_ end ~tth what they confefs to be theirs,.namely, n Stau of lmmortaluy, m which every one is rewarded according to their \Vorks. Only they are thus far to be commended before either of them if we confid~r ma~y of our Times, That they _were. more Certain, PI'ain and True m their Acknowledgment of a Dtvme L1gbr, Law or Principlt itt .Mon, which heing obey'd, fupply'd them with d•ily Wifdom and Strength, lnd_finally led them to God: An~ alfo were me1re Jufl to their Flith, by ~ Ltfe excellmg the rnoft of them m Virtue and Self-Denial, And cerrain1y JD that Great ~nd Terribl_e Day, when God will judge the Secrets of Men I 1- by J~fus Chnft, a~ordmg to Pa11l"s Go_[ptl, fuch pious Gentilu, wba knowmg God, glortfied him as God, ancf · confciemioufly did tbc Things comainld in his Law, wi11 be finally acquicted :tnd rewarded. s: c c c. CftAP. .. ' |