they ought to do, there could never arise any dangerous rebellion in the land. But if the people see once any ambition in their teachers, they will sooner learn that, than any other doctrine; and from ambition proceeds rebellion. _J. D._ It may be some of T. H. his disciples desire to know what hopes of heavenly joys they have upon their master’s principles. They may hear them without any great contentment: _There is no mention in Scripture, nor ground in reason, of the cœlum empyræum_, that is, the heaven of the blessed, where the saints shall live eternally with God. And again, _I have not found any text that can probably be drawn to prove any ascension of the saints into heaven, that is to say, into any cœlum empyræum_. But he concludeth positively, that _Salvation shall be upon earth, when God shall reign at the coming of Christ in Jerusalem_. And again, _In short, the kingdom of God is a civil kingdom_, &c. called also _the kingdom of heaven, and the kingdom of glory_. All the Hobbians can hope for, is, to be restored to the same condition which Adam was in before his fall. So saith T. H. himself: _From whence may be inferred, that the elect, after the resurrection, shall be restored to the estate wherein Adam was before he had sinned_. As for the beatifical vision, he defineth it to be a word unintelligible. _T. H._ This _cœlum empyræum_ for which he pretendeth so much zeal, where is it in the Scripture, where in the book of Common Prayer, where in the canons, where in the homilies of the church of England, or in any part of our religion? What has a Christian to do with such language? Nor do I remember it in Aristotle. Perhaps it may be in some Schoolman or commentator on Aristotle, and his Lordship makes it in English the _heaven of the blessed_, as if _empyræum_ signified _that which belongs to the blessed_. St. Austin says better; that after the day of judgment all that is not heaven shall be hell. Then for _beatifical vision_, how can any man understand it, that knows from the Scripture that no man ever saw or can see God. Perhaps his Lordship thinks that the happiness of the life to come is not real, but a vision. As for that which I say (_Leviathan_, p. 625), I have answered to it already.