_I have tried, if I could reach that great Resolution of his (that is of _Seneca_) to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell._] _Seneca_[6] brags he could do this, in these words: _Si scirem deos peccata ignoscituros, et homines ignoraturos, adhuc propter vilitatem peccati peccare erubescerem. Credat Judæus Appela: non ego_.---- [6] _Tho. Aquin. in com. in Boet. de Consolat. prope finem._ _And Atheists have been the onely Philosopher._] That is, if nothing remain after this life. St. _Aug._ was of this opinion. _Disputabam---- Epicurum accepturum fuisse palmam in animo meo, nisi ego credidissem post mortem restare animæ vitam_, etc. Aug. _l. 6. conf. cap. 16_. _Sect. 48. Pag. 68._ _God by a powerful voice shall command them back into their proper shapes._] So _Minutius_. _Cæterum quis tam stultus est aut brutus, ut audeat repugnare hominem à Deo ut primum potuit fingi, ita posse denuo reformari, nihil esse post obitum, et ante ortum nihil fuisse; sicut de nihilo nasci licuit, ita de nihilo licere reparari. Porro difficilius est id quod sit incipere, quod quam id quod fuerit iterare. Tu perire Deo credis, si quid nostris oculis hebetibus subtrahitur. Corpus omne sive arescit in pulverem sive in humorem solvitur, vel in cinerem comprimitur vel in nidorem tenuatur, subducitur nobis, sed Deo elementorum custodi inseruntur. In Octav._ _Vide_ Grot. _de veritate Relig. Christian. ubi (lib. 2.) solvit objectionem, quod dissoluta corpora resititui nequeunt._ _Sect. 50. Pag. 71._ _Or conceive a flame that can either prey upon, or purifie the substance of a soul._] Upon this ground _Psellus lib 1. de Energia Dæmonum_, c. 7 holds, That Angels have bodies, (though he grants them to be as pure, or more pure than Air is) otherwise he could not apprehend how they should be tormented in Hell; and it may be upon this ground it was, that the Author fell into the error of the _Arabians_, mentioned by him, _Sect. 7_. _Sect. 51. Pag. 73._ _There are as many Hells as _Anaxagoras_ conceited worlds._] I assure my self that this is false printed, and that instead of _Anaxagoras_ it should be _Anaxarchus_; for _Anaxagoras_ is reckon'd amongst those Philosophers that maintain'd a Unity of the world, but _Anaxarchus_ (according to the opinion of _Epicurus_) held there were infinite Worlds. That is he that caus'd _Alexander_ to weep by telling him that there were infinite worlds, whereby _Alexander_ it seems was brought out of opinion of his Geography, who before that time thought there remained nothing, or not much beyond his Conquests. _Sect. 54. Pag. 75._