Now let us compare this with the New Testament; where we find these words (1 Cor. xv. 21): _since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead_. Therefore all the immortality of the soul, that shall be after the resurrection, is by Christ, and not by the nature of the soul. Verse 22: _As by Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive_. Therefore since we died by Adam’s sin, so we shall live by Christ’s redemption of us, that is, after the resurrection. Again (verse 23): _But every man in his own order; Christ the first-fruits, afterwards they that are Christ’s, at his coming_. Therefore none shall be made alive till the coming of Christ. Lastly, as when God had said, _that day that thou eatest of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt die_, though he condemned him then, yet he suffered him to live a long time after; so when Christ had said to the thief on the cross, _this day thou shalt be with me in Paradise_, yet he suffered him to lie dead till the general resurrection, for no man rose again from the dead before our Saviour’s coming, and conquering death. If God bestowed immortality on every man then when he made him, and he made many to whom he never purposed to give his saving grace, what did his Lordship think that God gave any man immortality with purpose only to make him capable of immortal torments? It is a hard saying, and I think cannot piously be believed. I am sure it can never be proved by the canonical Scripture. But though I have made it clear that it cannot be drawn by lawful consequence from Scripture, that man was created with a soul immortal, and that the elect only, by the grace of God in Christ, shall both bodies and souls from the resurrection forward be immortal; yet there may be a consequence well drawn from some words in the rites of burial, that prove the contrary, as these: _Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy, to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed_, &c. And these: _Almighty God, with whom do live the spirits of them that depart hence in the Lord_: which are words authorised by the church. I wonder his Lordship, that had so often pronounced them, took no notice of them here. But it often happens that men think of those things least, which they have most perfectly learnt by rote. I am sorry I could not, without deserting the sense of Scripture and mine own conscience, say the same. But I see no just cause yet, why the church should be offended at it. For the church of England pretendeth not, as doth the church of Rome, to be above the Scripture; nor forbiddeth any man to read the Scripture; nor was I forbidden, when I wrote my _Leviathan_, to publish anything which the Scriptures suggested. For when I wrote it, I may safely say there was no lawful church in England, that could have maintained me in, or prohibited me from writing anything. There was no bishop; and