. A treatise concerning the state of departed souls, before, and at, and after the Resurrection. THE PRE SHALL not at prefenttrouble the Reader with a De-tail of the feveral Reafons,which a long Time refrainedme from making the followingTreatife Englifh, though I wasvery much prefsd to it. But I am obligedto acquaint him, that when I found it hadbeen done by another Hand, with Notesjin which the Afoes of the venerable Authorwere poorly and meanly infulted by lowand vile Bujfoonryj becoming neither theGravity of a Clergyman^ nor the Faith ofa Chriftianj nor the J-ujlnefs and Sprit ofa po


. A treatise concerning the state of departed souls, before, and at, and after the Resurrection. THE PRE SHALL not at prefenttrouble the Reader with a De-tail of the feveral Reafons,which a long Time refrainedme from making the followingTreatife Englifh, though I wasvery much prefsd to it. But I am obligedto acquaint him, that when I found it hadbeen done by another Hand, with Notesjin which the Afoes of the venerable Authorwere poorly and meanly infulted by lowand vile Bujfoonryj becoming neither theGravity of a Clergyman^ nor the Faith ofa Chriftianj nor the J-ujlnefs and Sprit ofa polite Writer, nor the Honour and Hu-manity of a Gentleman, I wasprovokd totranflate the forefaid Treatife anew,, thatI might have an Opportunity by thisTranflation to do Jujiice to the Merit ofthe excellent Author, with Regard to thofewho are not yet acquainted with his Works y an The PREFACE. an Author famous through the LearnedWorld for his fublime ana noble Writings ;efteem d by all the Learned World, one ofits fining Ornaments, an Honour to Great-Britain, and to human Nature ; an Authorin his Kind fo ad


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