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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

overcome to be cleansed and to be made free from all Sin Matth. 20.30 Luke 1.17.23.56 that so they may be fitted and prepared for that future and eternal Weight of Glory laid up for those that shall have overcome of which those that are not so cleansed are utterly incapable Or that being as it were on the other hand perfected in Unrighteousness and Unbelief they may by the just Judgment of God be cast into that terrible Torment and long Damnation that is appointed as the Lot and Portion of all those that shall have out finned so long a day of Visitation the and Tender of the Mercy of God in Jesus Christ That no Man did ever live all this time of a thousand Years upon this Earth at once But that God ordinarily giveth to every Soul of Man since his Life was shortned to less thin a hundred Years Qu. 8 61 62 63 70 114. twelve Revolutions or Times of Living upon this Earth and that continually in the same Body for Substance Except some holy Men to whom God shewed that singular Grace as to reveal unto them that Jesus Christ should come in the Flesh to be a Sacrifice and Propitiation for the Sins of the whole World Qu. 44. who being through this Faith in his Name and Blood perfectly purified cleansed and sanctified from all Sin stood not generally speaking in need of returning to live upon the Earth until that time that all the Saints shall so return to wit in the first Resurrection to live here together a thousand Years That the Souls do not return immediately to their Bodies again as the Heathen Philosophers have taught who all along did corrupt the Divine Truths which they learned of the Church of God by mixing in with them their own Imaginations But Qu. 194. that every Soul is so long out of the Body as together with the time of the precedent Life makes up one Hour that is according to this Hypothesis 333⅓ Years except Infants that return sooner That all the time from Adam to the Resurrection of Jesus Christ which he saith is almost Four thousand Years P. 8. and which sometimes he calls the Great Circle sometimes the Whole Great Revolution is in Scripture called the Night This be divides into Twelve equal Parts as the Twelve Hours of the Night One of which Hours being 333⅓ of Years and Three Hours being a Watch of the Night makes the Psalmist call a thousand Years a Watch of the Night Qu. 5 11 12 61.63 72 74 194. in one sense viz. as it is Three of these Hours of this Night or Time from Adam to Christ and in another sense as one Day viz. as it is the Day of Visitation which God gives every Man to live upon the Earth Psal 90. ●4 And from this Text he admirably derives all his Scripture-Chronology That during the absence of the Soul out of the Body it remains in the same State till its return again into the Body Qu. 32. God having appointed no other Place nor State out of the Body for Men and Women to be converted in but this Earth That the Souls of the Righteous whether they have had the outward law or only the inward Law while they were in the Body are during this absence out of the Body Qu. 43. at rest but that those of the Impenitent and Wicked are not so That Faith in the Man Christ Jesus crucified and offered up as a Propitiation for the Sins of the World Qu. 39 40 41 42. is so necessary to Salvation that no Man ever was or ever shall be saved or receive Remission of his Sins but through Faith in his Name and Blood That Jesus Christ was by his Death a Ransom for the Sins that were under the First Testament Heb. 9.15 so that even the Sins of Cain Esau and all that died in their Sins Qu. 19 22 52 65 70. before the Resurrection of Christ and the preaching of the Gospel should be pardonable to them at what time soever they should again live in the World if when they should hear the Gospel preached unto them they should truly believe in his Name And consequently that none had at that time committed the unpardonable Sin against the Holy Ghost That no Man shall be condemned to that terrible and long Damnation in the End of this World and afters its Conflagration but for having neglected so long a Day of Mercy Qu 36 39 29. and particularly for having rejected the Tenders of the Mercy of God in Jesus Christ preached unto them in the Gospel as well outwardly as inwardly for which all their Sins of a thousand Years past shall be charged upon them that so God may be just in sentencing them to that terrible and long Damnation for Ages of ●●ges of which no Man knows the ●nd Heb. 2.3 John 8.24.16.9 That though God hath in all Ages ●●en to Mankind a Dispensation of Grace even of Gospel-Grace through Christ Jesus Qu. 26 c. yet where it pleased him 〈◊〉 to superadd that singular Grace of the Revelation of Christ to come in the Flesh to be offered up as a Propitiation for the Sins of the whole World that Grace was not sufficient to the final and eternal Salvation of my Man it not being indeed given 〈◊〉 that end Luk. 1.17 but only to prepare their ●●arts for the Reception of that Do●●rive when God in his Providence ●●ould cause the same to be preached 〈◊〉 them both outwardly and inwardly That therefore all Men of all Ages and in all Places of the World that have lived and died without ever hearing of THAT VERY GOSPEL of the Kingdom preached to them Qu. 37 51 52. WHERE MENTION SHALL BE MADE OF WHAT THAT WOMAN DID TO CHRIST IN MEMORIAL OF HER Matth. 24.14.26.13 shall live again in the World in some Age and Place where they shall hear it before the End of the World that so they may be in a capacity through Faith in his Name and Blood of receiving the Remission on of their Sins or be condemned to that just Damnation which the Contempt and Rejection of so great Mercy and Salvation shall demerit That therefore no one Man had finished all his Twelve Revolutions before Christ was offered up upon the Cross risen again from the Dead and that Remission of Sins was preached in his Name Qu. 95 96. because then such a Soul could not have been saved And for this Cause it was that the Apostle said that even now in the ●●d of the World after Christ was appeared to put a way Sin by the Sacrifice of himself it was yet appointed for all Men at least once to die before the Judgment of God should ●●●●lly come upon them Heb 9.26 That that time when Christ arose from the Dead and the Apostles were sent forth into the World to preach Remission of Sins through Faith in his Name and Blood was the

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 Let your moderation be known to all men for the Lord is at hand Philip. 4.5 LICENSED Octob. 3.1689 LONDON Printed for Awnsham Churchill at the Black Swan in Ave-Mary Lane MDCXC SIR HErewith I send you according to my Promise an Abstract of the Doctrines which I find contained in that wonderful Book styled Two hundred Queies concerning the Doctrine of the Revol●tion of Humane Souls so far as I an guess at the Author's Sentiments ●●m his Queries I had much rather he had himself plainly asserted his Judgment that 〈◊〉 I might have been tree from all ●ame in asserting these Doctrines to be so tho I am in no great pain about it For it happens oft enough That ●m do by Questions as forcibly di●over their Sentiments as by any ●●her way of Writing whatsoever and so I consider this Author to have done Yet because it is not impossible but in Matters so strange and new I may in some things have mistaken him I will not be equally positive as to every part of it and only say this That I judge the Author at least so far accountable for these Principles as he has given occasion to a Man so impartial as I am to think them his For sure I am I find not the least inclination in the world to stretch any of his Words to any other Sense than they plainly seem to bear and much less to ascribe any Opinion to him out of ill-will which I do 〈◊〉 think to be his Nor needs what the Author says in his First Question to deter 〈◊〉 from looking on them as the Persuasion of his present Judgment where he saith That 〈◊〉 doth not pretend to the utmost Assuranc●● that every thing therein proposed is th● infallible Inspiration of the Holy Ghost Nay this rather confirms me that he did look upon some of these Doctrines at least as such altho he will not impose them upon any of his Christian Brethren as necessary Articles of Faith that must be believed upon pain of Damnation of which there is no need tho they were all so It being most certain that all the Inspirations of the holy Men of God in whatsoever Ages of the World were never so to all Men tho they were so to those that received them in that Evidence which brings Condemnation if rejected But that which farther induces me to believe those Queries not put forth meerly nay nor yet chiefly for the Proposers information as Matters of which he doubted but to inform others of his Judgment and to stir them up to a Consideration of his whole Hypothesis First Whether it be not consistent with the Scriptures Secondly If so Whether it be not the most probable System that hitherto hath been proposed to reconcile the Doctrines of Scriptures to themselves from the seeming Contradictions which the various Professions of Men do fix upon them and make the most difficult and perplexing Points of Faith intelligible to the meanest Understanding In this I am yet farther confirmed by the manifold Argumentations Anticipations of Objections with their Answers and Explications of Scripture so often occurring to the advertent Readers in the Queries To which add what he says in his Preface of another Treatise that he hath ready if these Queries prove acceptable in which the most important things in them are more at large treated of and illustrated than in the Queries and that after another way Which must then needs be by way of Position and Argumentation to say nothing of that other Treatise translated out of Hebrew into Latin under this Title De Revolutionibus Animarum Tractatus Primus c. Or The First Treatise of the Revolutions of Souls c. Written several hundred years ago by a Rabbin styled the Eagle of the Cabalists Yet to do the Author all the Right I can I do confess that his propounding them rather by way of Query at first may have been in hopes that some Learned and Moderate Pen might by discussing the Matters contained in them in whole or in part give him occasion to correct his first Thoughts in some Points and so amend some parts of his Hypothesis that are perhaps but weakly guarded before he came to write any thing by way of Position And who can blame this Modesty while he treads in a Path so seemingly new and hidden Yet this neither need nor ought so deter any moderate Pen from shewing either the self-inconsistency of the Hypothesis its Contrariety to the Scripture or any the ill Consequences it 's accompanied with with respect either to the Christian Faith or Life lest they should lose their time in writing against a Book that asserts nothing and only asks Questions To prevent which Scruple I have made this Collection of Fifty Positions and Negations evident in the Queries which to be sure if the Author shall hear of and not purge himself timely of them he will be the more accountable for them and for any ill Consequences if any there be that can justly be fixt upon them As I have then adventured upon the first Step with all the Care and Caution imaginable so some more able Pen I hope will undertake the latter lest all Men being silent it be look'd upon as a Conviction if not of the Truth of the Hypothesis at leas of the inoffensiveness of it and us non-repugnancy to or good consistency with the Doctrines of Christianity as the Title-page insinuates In my Judgment seeing the Author was about to treat of the Soul and that his Opinion concerning the first Existence of it varies from the most common received Opinion of Christians his first Query ought to have been concerning her first State but of this we find nothing directly till pag. 129. where he intimates That the Souls of Men did prae-exist in another World Qu. 157 c. before this was made out of which they do come into this World when they are first born for which cause that Term is made use of in Scripture of ●●ns coming into the world Joh. 1.9 This I say I judge had been more proper for the Author to have begun with before he had gone to treat of the Souls descent out of that her pure Virgin and Spiritual State into the dark Dungeons of these our gross Bodies of which his other Queries by That after the Descent of the Soul into these our Bodies Qu. 4.64 God of his wonderful Long-suffering Mercy and Forbearance does give unto every Man a long day of Visitation even of a thousand Years to live upon this Earth that so he may be converted and through Faith in the Blood of Christ grow up to such a State of Stability in Righteousness as to