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A52779	A letter to a gentleman touching the treatise entituled, Two hundred queries concerning the doctrine of the revolution of humane souls and its conformity to the truths of Christianity / by a pacifick Christian, a member of the Catholick Church, tho not of the Roman synagogue falsely so called.	Pacifick Christian.	1690 (1690)	Wing N42; ESTC R24019	20,535	64

their Infancy others live and die in Frenzy and others natural Idiots never being in any capacity 〈◊〉 either doing good or evil while they are in the Body Except this Doctrine be received which supposes them to have lived before when they had a Capacity or that they shall 〈◊〉 after and shall have a Capacity of doing good and evil in the Body ●●d of receiving a Reward accordingly Besides How is the common Doctrine of all Christians both Papists and Protestants with respect to these Creatures reconcileable to the Justice Wisdom and Mercy of God and to the Scriptures alledged with many more that might be produced For Whither shall these Infants Franticks and Fools go What shall become of them Shall they all go to Heaven and partake of that eternal Weight of Glory prepared only for those that have overcome For what I pray What good have they done that they s●ould reap so great a Reward Shall they all go to Hell For what I wonder What evill have they done that they should be condemned to so great Damnation How doth the Wisdom of God appear in the former or his Justice in the latter Shall they go to the Popish Limbus where they shall be free from Pain or Pleasure but for ever secluded the Presence of God But where do the Scriptures speak of any such middle Place or State Not to speak of the inconceivableness of such a State as in which Intellectual Beings if these can be said to be such deprived of all outward Objects to divert their Thoughts upon should while to all Eternity deprived of the Enjoyment of the Presence of God be void of Torment Or shall they as the Socinians say of the Wicked be annihilated But what Glory can accrue to that Supream Intellectual Being who created all things for his own Glory by annihilating any of his Intellectual Creatures To say no more What more reasonable Solution then of this Difficulty hath hitherto ●●n found than this Hypothesis which ●●ars both the Wisdom Justice and ●ercy of God in rewarding or con●●mning them because he hath afford●d or will afford them other Oppor●●nities of living upon the Earth in ●hich they received or will receive a ●apacity of doing Good or Evil of ●●●ving in Christ or persisting in 〈◊〉 belief What Doctrine doth the Scripture ●specially the New Testament seem 〈◊〉 teach more expresly more plainly 〈◊〉 with more earnestness than the ●●●cessity of Faith in the Man Christ 〈◊〉 order to Salvation Saying That there is no other Name under ●●●en by which any Man tan be saved Acts 4.12 〈◊〉 that of Jesus Mat. 26.8 Luke 24.47 Acts 2.38.10.43 Rom. 2.25 Heb. 9.22.10.18 That Remission of Sins is only attain●● through Faith in his Name and ●●●d That he that believes not shall 〈◊〉 damned yea is condemned already ●hat God shall judge all the World in Righteousness by the Man Christ Jesus Rom. 2.16 and that according to that very Gospel which Paul preach'd How is all this by any other Principle but this Hypothesis reconcileable to the Infinite Justice and Mercy of God's Nature not only with respect to that numberless number of Infants Franticks and Ideots already mentioned but also with respect to the many Millions of Souls of Men and Women even whole Nations for many Ages together who have lived in the Body and died without ever having heard of the Man Christ Jesus or of that Law of the Gospel or of any Necessity of believing in his Name for the Remission of their Sins or that they should for want of it be condemned to so terrible Damnation Shall we to avoid the manifest Injustice that there seems to be in condemning Men for not believing in him of whom they never heard and for not conforming to a Law never promulgated in their Nation Shall we I say to avoid this gross Absurdity fall into another almost is bad viz. give the Lie to this ●ain Doctrine of the Gospel Or by Fetches of Wit no where to be ●ound in Scripture seek to evade or elude it and so as some think and call it introduce a certain kind 〈◊〉 Paganism or Salvation without ●y explicit knowledge of Christ cru●●hed Or is it not better and more ●●●e to embrace this middle Way in which the Justice of God is sufficiently cleared on the one hand and the Doctrine of the Gospel on the other hand preserved asserting That every Man shall at one time or other live in one place or other where Christ and Remission of Sins through Faith in his Name shall be preach'd to them outwardly as well as inwardly The Scripture saith That Christ by his Death Heb. 9.15 became a Ransom for the Sins that were under the First Testament and that in that time of Ignorance God winked Acts 17.30 But how is this Scripture Doctrine consistent with the vulgar Opinion which equally condemns the Sinners under the First Testament to the same everlasting and endless Damnation with the Sinners under the Second Covenant The Scriptures which Christ says cannot be broken say most expresly That with what measure men do mete Mat. 7.2.26.52 Rev. 13.10 Luke 6.38 it shall be measured to them again That he that kills with the Sword shall with the Sword be killed and he that leads captive shall be led captive But do we not see saith he Men daily die without receiving in this Life the same Measure they have meted to others and that divers die on their Beds at liberty that have killed and enslaved others How is then the common Doctrine true That no Man lives more ●an once upon the Earth or how 〈◊〉 it consistent with these Scriptures 〈◊〉 this Doctrine is For that tho they ●eet not with the same Measure in ●is Life they may hereafter upon ●is Earth and have the Reward of 〈◊〉 their other Sins at last to boot The Scripture saith in so many Words That when we were Enemies Rom. 5.10 〈◊〉 were reconciled to God by the death 〈◊〉 his Son on the Cross But how could we at that time 〈◊〉 Enemies if we had not then any ●●ing at all but did first begin to ●●ist above Sixteen hundred and ●●ghty Years after The Scripture saith Rom. 9.22 That God en●●●th with much long-suffering the ●essels of Wrath fitted for destruction But is it probable that ten twelve 〈◊〉 twenty Years at which Age we 〈◊〉 many die in their Sins is a time 〈◊〉 much long-suffering with God with whom at thousand Years is as one Day The Scripture saith That after Christ was put to death in the Flesh 1 Pet. 9.20 1 Pet. 3.18 19 20. and quickned by the Spirit that is was raised from the dead he went by the Spirit and preached to the Spirits in Prison which once were disobedient in the days of Noah But how could this be if those very Souls that lived and were Captives of the Devil in the Days of Noah were not then again living upon