...principles of the religion of the Hindus consisted in the belief in the existence of One Being only, of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments. Their precepts of morality inculcate the practice of virtue as necessary for procuring...

...of the OKI Testament except the Pentateuch, and of giving only a seeming acceptance of the doctrines of the immortality of the soul and of a future state of bliss and misery, in order not to be put under the ban of all other religious parties. The sect soon...

...the gods with sacrifices, and the dead with offerings." The Egyptian priests inculcated the doctrines of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments. On the death of a Pharaoh, his soul was judged by a court composed of forty-two deities,...

...the present world is the highest good it holds out to its votaries. Their notions of a Supreme Being, of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of existence, are very obscure. They believe in a devil or satanic agencies, as also in certain inferior...

...many of them ridiculed the pretense that the institution was divine."9 Again he says: "The doctrine of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments, was but little understood, and of course, only very partially acknowledged. Hence, at...

...Providence and a moral government of the world, the general principles of morality, the natural proofs of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments. Leaving out of view therefore all that is positive and technical in Christianity, these...

...Providence ana a moral government of the world, the general principles of morality, the natural proofs oí the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments. Leaving; out of view therefore all that is positive and technical in Christianity, these...

...poetic of ancient superstitions. It embraced the doctrines of a Supreme Being arid of inferior deities, of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments, and the observance of imposing ceremonies, in which the bodies of human beings, and of...

...The feeling of injustice created by such a state of things might have been silenced if the doctrine of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments, had been firmly held. But with the Semites " man after death descended to Sheol, a subterranean...

...were a variety of doctrines revealed by heaven, and believed by religious men ; amongst others that of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments: Noe and his sons believed those doctrines, so did Abraham, so did Isaac, Jacob, Joseph,...