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is the glory and the intent of the supreme ruler of 

 the universe, to make a conspicuous and awful dis- 

 tinction in one world or another, between those who 

 have endeavoured to serve him and to render his 

 majesty honourable among men, and those who 

 have impiously abused all his favours, ridiculed his 

 thunder, and robbed him of his choicest honours* 

 But if philos phy should fad us here, if it were pos- 

 sible for creatures of such different charac'ers to 

 have nothing in their own natures which was immor- 

 tal, yet it is a very reasonable thing, that the great 

 judge of all should prolong their beings beyond this 

 mortal state, that the sons of vice mi^ht not go 

 triumphant off the stage of existence, and that the 

 men of virtue might not be always oppressed, nor 

 come to a period of their being without some tes- 

 timony of the approbation of the God that made them. 



