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14 II. That while, however, the beasts never live again, men do.

III. That those who have passed away from earth are still living.

IV. That the wicked are promised everlasting punishment, and the righteous life eternal.

V. That the death of the wicked man’s soul means an existence of vice and consequent misery.

VI. That eternal life means existence in a state of virtue and consequent happiness.

Of course, in a pamphlet of the present size, it has not been possible to enter minutely into all the bearings of the subject pro and con; we have preferred to let Scripture speak for itself in words far more convincing than any that we could utter. We commend the thoughts here expressed to the candid attention of believers in Holy Writ, in the full confidence that it will manifestly appear that the teaching of is in favour of the doctrine of the immortality of all men, a doctrine whose practical tendency is to induce a love and practice of virtue for its own sake, and for the sake of its results in time and in eternity, and a loathing and abandonment of evil on account of its nature and its results in time and in eternity. We regard the doctrine of annihilation as a doctrine tending to make wicked men more reckless in their sinning by removing the wholesome restraint of fear—the only restraint that can possibly affect those who love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil.