In the first revelation, it is equally proved, because a _redemption to come_, that was to be obtained by an implicit faith, without any knowledge of the time when it was to appear, whether before or after many generations of men were dead and gone, necessarily implies a full belief of a state belonging to man, that is beyond time, and the death of the body. This proof of the natural immortality of the soul, thus inseparable from the first revelation of God, is so strong, that nothing need, or hardly can be added to it. For how could God more fully assert the immortality of our nature, than by requiring our faith in such a redemption? Or how could man more strongly declare his full belief of, such immortality, than by his faith in a redemption that had nothing to do with time, or the life, or death of the body in this present world? _Again_, The murder, or martyrdom of _Abel_, and the translation of _Enoch_ into heaven, both recorded for the instruction of the people in this very point, are two examples, and first fruits of the redemption promised to _Adam_, and all mankind; two invincible proofs, that this first covenant was a covenant of life and immortality, confirmed to mankind by facts strong and convincing, like those of Christ’s resurrection and ascension. For immediately after a covenant of redemption was made, the first good man after it, in the very beginning of the world, and the beginning of his own life, after his first act of divine worship, and as soon as God had declared his good pleasure in it, was slaughtered like a beast. Now can there be a fuller demonstration, that the covenant of redemption was for life and immortality in a future state? Otherwise the first good man in the world lost all the benefit of God’s covenant, merely because he was good; merely thro’ the devotion that he shewed towards God, and the favour which God shewed towards him. Therefore either _Abel_’s blood cries aloud the absolute certainty of a future state, or _Abel_ must be said to have been undone, ruined, and deprived of all good, purely because of a friendship discovered between God and him. This fact therefore, recorded by the Spirit of God assures all the Mosaic generations, that another life belonged to _Abel_ and to them, besides that which _Abel_ lost by his death. Does it not as directly, declare this, as when Christ said, his _kingdom was not of this world_? Does it not say the same thing, as when Christ said to his disciples, _fear not them that can only kill the body_? The same thing, as the voice from heaven, which cried, _blessed are the dead which die in the Lord_? _Again_, Another proof of the same force, is the translation of _Enoch_. God saith by _Moses_, _Enoch walked with God, and was not, for God took him_. Now, could any the most expressive form of words, have told the ancient world with more certainty than this fact does, that God’s covenant with man, was for a kingdom of heaven?