CHAP. I. Of the Happy and Miserable Worlds. The First Argument was, _Whether there might not be such Worlds in Nature, as were in no kind or sort like this World we are of?_ They all agreed, That it was probable there was. The Second Argument was, _Whether it was probable that the Happy and Miserable Worlds were, in any kind, like this we are of._ They all agreed, It was probable that this World was somewhat like both one, and the other; and so, both those were somewhat like this: for, as the _Happy World_ was no ways Irregular; and the _Miserable World_ no ways Regular: so this World we are of, was partly Irregular, and partly Regular; and so it was a _Purgatory World_. CHAP. II. Whether there be such kinds and sorts of Creatures in the Happy and Blessed World, as in this World. The Third Argument was, _Whether it was probable, the Happy and Miserable Worlds, had Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, and Elemental Kinds?_ They agreed, It was probable there were such Kinds: but yet, those Kinds, and particular sorts of those Kinds, might be different from those of this World. The Fourth Argument was, _Whether there was Human sorts of Creatures in those Worlds._ They all agreed, There was. CHAP. III. Of the Births and Deaths of the Heavenly World. The Fifth Argument was, _Whether there could be Births and Deaths in the Happy World?_ Some Parts of my Mind were of opinion, That if there was so Regular a World, as that there were no Irregularities in it, there could not be _Deaths_: for, Death was a Dissolution; and if there was no Death, there could be no Birth, or Production: for, if any particular sort of Creatures should Encrease, and never dissolve, they would become Infinite; which every particular kind or sort of Creatures, may be, for time, and be Eternal; as also, be Infinite for Number; because, as some dissolve, others are produced. And so, if particular sorts or kinds of Creatures, be Eternal; the particular Production and Dissolution, is Infinite: but, if any Sort, or Kind, should encrease, without decrease, not any particular World could contain them: As for example, If all the Human Creatures that have been produced from our Father _Adam_, (which hath not been above Six thousand years) should be alive, this World could not contain them; much less, if this World, and the Human sorts of Creatures, had been of a longer date. And besides, if there should be a greater Encrease, by the Number of Human Creatures: in truth, the numerous Encrease, would have caused Mankind, in the space of Six thousand years, to be almost Infinite. But, the Minor Parts of my Mind was of opinion, That then the _Happy World_ could not be so perfectly Regular, if there was Death.