I. * Gen. iii. 1 9. In the sweat of

thy face shalt thou eat bread, till tliou return unto the ground ; for out of it wast thou taken; for dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return. Acts xiii. 3G. For David, after he had served his own generation by the \vill of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption.
b Luke xxiii. 43. And Jesus said rnato him, Verily i say unto thee,
To-day shalt thou be with me ii paradise. Ecd. xii. 7. Then shall tlv dust return to the earth as it was and the spirit shall return unto Got who gave it.
'^ Heb. xii. 23. To the genera assembly and church of the first born, which are written in heaven and to God the judge of all, and t the spirits of just men made perfect 2 Cor. V. 1 . For we know, that i our earthly house of this tabernach were dissolved, we have a buildinj; of God, an house not made witl hands, eternal in the heavens. Ver. G I'herefore we are always confident knowing that whilst we are at hom( in the body, we are absent from th« Lord: Ver. 8. We are confident, 1 say, and willing rather to be abseni from the body, and to be preseni with the Lord. Phil. i. 23. For I an: in a strait betwixt two, having a de sire to depart, and to be with Christ which is far bt:tter. With Acts iii. 21 Whom the heaven must receive, unti the times of restitution of all things] which God hath spoken by thi mouth of all his holy prophets sinc the world began. And l'^v\\. iv. 10
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4he souls of the wicked are cast into liell, where they re-[ main in torments and utter daricness, reserved to the judg- ment of the great day '^. Besides the.se two places for souls separated from their bodies, the scnpture acknowledgetfa none.