A SURVEY OF THЕ Search after Souls, BY Dr. COWARD, Dr. S. CLARKE, Mr. WHEREIN The principal Arguments for and against the WITH An ESSAY to afcertain the Condition of the Christian, By CALEB FLEMING. LONDON: Printed for C. HENDERSON, under the Royal-Ex- TO NICOLAS MUNCKLEY, M. D. Fellow of the College of Physicians, and Fellow of the Royal-Society. SIR, T HE ease and health, owing, under God, to that generous attendance which you have many years given my family; would be fufficient to justify this dedication. But when the performance has so much to do with the system of man, and with the metaphyfical writings of medical professors, the propriety is very confpicuous. It is the business of the following sheets, to combat the material or mechanical hypothefis of the human Soul. Whatever inaccuracies, or greater defects, may meet your diftinguishing eye, eye, in this survey, they will the less offend; fince your patronage is not fo properly fought, as an opportunity seized of publickly acknowledging your FRIENDSHIP. Whether the theological opinions, herein advanced, shall agree with, or differ from your own; the candour and ingenuity of your spirit will affuredly shew, that Dr. Munckley is an advocate of religious liberty. With great efteem and obligation, I am yours, &c. Hoxton-Square, C. Fleming. ? INTRODUCTION. HE universal opinion of T the state of the pious dead, has been, that of an immediate felicity. Many christians have taught, that fouls of believers, are, at their death made perfect in holiness, and do immediately pass into glory :-fo far, I should conclude, they have not mistaken the doctrine of divine revelation. But when they added, to this article of faith, their bodies being still united to Christ, do rest in their graves until the refurrection: they appear, to me, to have mistaken very much in their interpretation. Abfurdity feems to hang heavily on this opinion: and numbers difcern A |