_First_, I shall clearly evince, that there is not in all the New Testament, one single text, which either in the letter, or the spirit proves, or has the least tendency, or design to prove, that the _immortality_ of the soul, or its perpetual duration after the death of the body, was not an _universal_, _commonly_ received opinion in, and thro’ every age of the world from _Adam_ to Christ. _Secondly_, That this doctrine or belief of a future state, was not _designedly secreted_, or _industriously hidden_ from the eyes of the people of God by _Moses_, neither by the types and figures of the law, nor by any other part of his writings. From whence I shall occasionally shew, that the true _ground_ and _method_ of Christian redemption to eternal life, preached by the apostles, began with _Adam_, was the religion of _Adam_, and all his descendants. And also, that the writings of _Moses_, and the patriarchal faith, give the very same full proof of the immortality of the soul, or a future state, as the gospel doth. Need I not observe, that the whole merits of the debate, betwixt Bishop _Warburton_ on the one side, and the whole Christian church of all ages, on the other side, lie wholly in these particulars, which, if they can be made good, the whole costly fabric of the Doctor’s _projected defence of Christianity_, (as he calls it) built at the expence of such immense treasures of learning, fetched from all quarters of the antient and modern world, must have the fate which always happens to castles built in the air. This learned writer, to shew, that the immortality of the soul, or its perpetual duration in a future state, was entirely unknown in all the former dispensations of God, until the coming of Christ, begins with this passage of St. _Paul_. “God hath saved us according to his own purpose, and his grace which was given us in Christ Jesus, before the world began. But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light, thro’ the gospel.”