_T. H._ Why does not his Lordship cite some place of Scripture here to prove, that all the reprobates which are dead, live eternally in torment? We read indeed, that everlasting torments were prepared for the Devil and his angels, whose natures also are everlasting; and that the _Beast_ and the _false prophet_ shall be tormented everlastingly; but not that every reprobate shall be so. They shall indeed be cast into the same fire; but the Scripture says plainly enough, that they shall be both body and soul destroyed there. If I had said that the devils themselves should be restored to a better condition, his Lordship would have been so kind as to have put me into the number of the _merciful doctors_. Truly, if I had had any warrant for the possibility of their being less enemies to the church of God than they have been, I would have been as merciful to them as any doctor of them all. As it is, I am more merciful than the Bishop. _J. D._ But his shooting is not at rovers, but altogether at random, without either precedent or partner. All that _eternal fire_, all those torments which he acknowledgeth, is but this, that _after the resurrection, the reprobate shall be in the estate that Adam and his posterity were in, after the sin committed, saving that God promised a redeemer to Adam and not to them_: adding, _that they shall live as they did formerly, marry and give in marriage; and consequently engender children perpetually after the resurrection, as they did before_: which he calleth _an immortality of the kind, but not of the persons of men_. It is to be presumed, that in those their second lives, knowing certainly from T. H. that there is no hope of redemption for them from corporal death upon their well-doing, nor fear of any torments after death for their ill-doing, they will pass their times here as pleasantly as they can. This is all the damnation which T. H. fancieth. _T. H._ This he has urged once before, and I answered to it, that the whole paragraph was to prove, that for any text of Scripture to the contrary, men might, after the resurrection, live as Adam did on earth; and that, notwithstanding the text of St. Luke, (chap. xx. 34-36), _Marry and propagate_. But that they shall do so, is no assertion of mine. His Lordship knew I held, that after the resurrection there shall be at all no wicked men; but the elect (all that are, have been, and hereafter shall be) shall live on earth. But St. Peter (2 Epist. iii. 13) says, there shall then be _a new heaven and a new earth_. _J. D._ In sum I leave it to the free judgment of the understanding reader, by these few instances which follow, to judge what the Hobbian principles are in point of religion. _Ex ungue leonem._ First, that no man needs to put himself to any hazard for his faith, but may safely comply with the times. _And for their faith it is internal and invisible. They have the licence that Naaman had, and need not put themselves into danger for it._