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SURVEY

OF THЕ

Search after Souls,

BY

Dr. COWARD, Dr. S. CLARKE, Mr.
BAXTER, Dr. SYKES, Dr. LAW,
Mr. PECKARD, and others.

WHEREIN

The principal Arguments for and against the
Materiality are collected: And the Distinc.
tion between the mechanical and moral Syf-
tem stated.

WITH

An ESSAY to afcertain the Condition of the Christian,
during the Mediatorial Kingdom of JESUS: which
neither admits of a fleeping, nor supposes a separate
State of the SOUL after Death.

By CALEB FLEMING.
Παλὰ δοκιμαζετε· το καλον καζεκετε.

LONDON:

Printed for C. HENDERSON, under the Royal-Ex-
change; and fold by JOHN NOON in the Poultry;
and P. BRINDLEY, in New-bond-street. 1758.

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TO

NICOLAS MUNCKLEY, M. D. Fellow of the College of Physicians, and Fellow of the Royal-Society.

SIR,

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HE ease and health, owing, under God, to that generous attendance which you have many years given my family; would be fufficient to justify this dedication. But when the performance has so much to do with the system of man, and with the metaphyfical writings of medical professors, the propriety is very confpicuous.

It is the business of the following sheets, to combat the material or mechanical hypothefis of the human Soul. Whatever inaccuracies, or greater defects, may meet your diftinguishing

eye,

eye, in this survey, they will the less offend; fince your patronage is not fo properly fought, as an opportunity seized of publickly acknowledging your

FRIENDSHIP.

Whether the theological opinions, herein advanced, shall agree with, or differ from your own; the candour and ingenuity of your spirit will affuredly shew, that Dr. Munckley is an advocate of religious liberty.

With great efteem and obligation,

I am yours, &c.

Hoxton-Square,
July 28, 1758.

C. Fleming.

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INTRODUCTION.

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HE universal opinion of T the state of the pious dead,

has been, that of an immediate felicity. Many christians have taught, that fouls of believers, are, at their death made perfect in holiness, and do immediately pass into glory :-fo far, I should conclude, they have not mistaken the doctrine of divine revelation. But when they added, to this article of faith, their bodies being still united to Christ, do rest in their graves until the refurrection: they appear, to me, to have mistaken very much in their interpretation. Abfurdity feems to hang heavily on this opinion: and numbers difcern

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