DEATH. 
real compafiion and goodnefs on the part of God. A 
fcheme of recovery was immediate] naa upon their 
tranfgreffion, and they had evident intimations of mercy as 
foon as their fentence of punihment was announced. 
Several other learned writers inevhe nd by the aa 
of death denounced againft the tranfgreffion of our 
rents, not merely the feparation of the foul from the Ton, 
remov 
purpofe Dr. Taylor obferves, eae ae Divinity, p- 102.) 
that every tranfgreffor, the moment he is fuch, is dead in 
Jaw: and, for any thing in ie. the mutt continue fo as oe 
as it is true, that he has violated the law, that is, for ever 
re. ‘Che language of the law to every one that tranfgreffes 
it and for every breach and tranfgreffion, is this, “* Thou 
fhalt die.’ And this, he fays, is the xpref- 
flor, TO AWM, “in g tho It die,” in the I: 
Tt does not {peak of the certainty of the 
event, as if he fhould certainly die the day he tranfg-effed ; 
for the event fhews the contrary ; ; hor that he fhould > be- 
random con re, without any foundation in the natur 
f his conttitution, which was created mortal, or in the 
force of t For the phrafe- 45 MYON, 
Ar 
Hebiaifm, importing that a thing is, or is done, i 
oe in the moft perfe&t manner, or the moft intenfe de- 
ree, and,is to be interpreted ae to the nature of 
the fubjedt} (See sine ii. 16. Xxxvii. 33. ‘ 
Thus the force -ef th rds, “in “ay ng thou fhalt die,” 
pe thou fal oct. nee totally die, or die for 
without coming to life Thou hatt juftly for- 
felted thy life and being, and ee foffer a total and eternal 
extin@ion of it. Athanafius (De Incarn. Verbi) thinks, 
that the doubling of the expreflion in the above cited fen- 
rae denotes, that “he fhould not only die, but remain 
I 
the corruption of death ;”? as we all have done, 
if the fecond Adam had not obtained ig us a happy refur 
reG&tion. This furely, fays bi ee Law (Confiderations on 
the Theory of Religion, p. 348, ed. 7.), and iden lefs, 
muft be implied in that moft folemn fentence: nor c 
well conceive the ushappy mp pe of it to have bees at 
ngenious as to explain it away, by dif- 
feveral component parts of hee con- 
oncluding, that by death no more was in- 
feparation of thefe parts, while the 
principal of them was ftill living in fome different manner: 
or that it was a continuation of their confcioufnefs, and 
real exiftence, though in fome other place. 
the learned “prelite (ubi fi ra), be a return to duft, then 
bine but a oe ae or a refufcitation from that duft, 
can be the reverfing of it, or a proper recovery from it ; 
am 
death, by man came alfo the reforre@tion fond ead ; 
and as in Adam all die, even fo in Chritt fhall all be a 
alive;’’ which words dire€tly affirm, fays Taylor (Do@r. of 
ng. Sia, p- 24.), “that a ee or body ven 
alive again, is granted, affured, and executed by an 
bei alone,’”? and evidently fuppofe, that the dead are 
t made alive till the refurre€tion ; an if'a refurrec- 
had not been provided, we fhould never after death 
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So 
have been made alive. Bifhop Sherlock purfues the fame 
kind of reafoning in reel language. (Dif. ii. p. 76. 300s 
Dife. vi. p. 209. Uf 
ingenious eda and an excellent Biblical critic, 
however, is of a ery dint opinion; and he dedu 
of dead men, an explica- 
tion of the term death in the threatening denounce 
Adam, fimilar to that with which we have 
fubje@, conformable to his idea of the foul, as a fubftance 
or principle from matter and the body, _ confilt 
nt =) = belie of a feparate ftate.” For an 
ae reafo on one interefting fubj: a oa Suet of the 
Soul. See alfo Sout and Resurrect 
Death, in its sacl id moft pr ope: ae natural fenfe, 
fignifies, as we have fhewn, the lofs of life, and together 
with it, of all its bleffings and comforts. This is the com- 
mon, if not the univerfal, fenfe of the word in the writings 
in the fanction of a law, it is reafonable to 
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fuppofe the word is in its moft natural and proper 
fen Death, in Scripture, is ufed ines for the lofs 
of privileges, benefits omforts, even when life remaing. 
In this fenfe it fignifies the foul’s lofs of the image 
of holinefs, and pe 
Thus the rd erage are faid to be ‘ dead in trefpaffes and 
fins.” (Ephef. ii. 1.) Sometimes death fignifies the lofs of 
bleflings in the world to come, toget er with pofitive fuf- 
ferings both in foul and body. us, in Rom. viii. 13. “€ if 
live ae the fieth, ye fhall die.”? (See John vi. 50.) Ia 
ev 
have toppled: that it denotes the final detiruGtion of the 
m, and render capable of the =a 
iety and virtu 
Sleep. Mors, or Death, was the moft powerful evant of 
oe ete deities, and brings all mortals down to 
ve t is faid that her mother Nox, or Night, 
beftowed paths ar care on her education, and that fhe had a 
great affeCtion for her brother Somnus, or Slee oe the 
Elzans there was a temple, with the flatue of a woman hold. 
ing in either hand a fleeping boy, with their legs diftorted ; 
that in her right was white, to fignify Sleep; that in her 
left was black, to reprefent Death ; whilft the female that 
foftered them was Night. 
remonies, no priefts, were ap 
Death, are, as M e 
thofe of the evil and hurtful beings in Saal ; te were 
excluded from all medals; on feale and rings they were pro- 
bably vagaries as al omens, and were perhaps never ufed. 
i. al real me 
gt he Fi 
riter, that i Orloren 
of God, 
ace; this is called « fpiritual death.?” 
i. 18. this is called ** the fecond death :”? and fome - 
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