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O THE R

WORLD.

By Way of

Conference between THREE FRIENDS.

On the Angelical HEAVEN.

The Nature and Fall of ANGELS.

The Scripture Account of the State of theDEAD.
The feveral Benefits of the RESURRECTION.
The Millennium of St. JOHN.

And the future Renovation of ALL THINGS.
Tending to

Illuftrate the Writings of the PROPHETS:
And to fhew the Harmony of the Sacred SYSTEM.
To which is added by Way of

APPENDIX,

Certain LETTERS refpecting the aforefaid SUBJECTS.
By J. FAWCETT.

So fhall the World go on —

till the Return

Of him fo lately promis'd to diffolve
Satan with his perverted World, then raise
From the couflagrant Mafs, purg'd and refin'd,
New Heav'ns, new Earth, Ages of endless Date,
Founded in Righteoufnefs and Peace and Love,
To bring forth Fruits, Joy and eternal Bliss.
MILTON.

LONDON:

Printed for the AUTHOR ; and fold by J. Noon, at the
White Hart in Cheapfide; E. OWEN, at the Golden Griffin,
in Holborn; and Mrs. OVERALL, facing the Church in the
Little Minories. MDCCLIX.

141. j. 90.

AS

'S it is the Defign of thefe DIALOGUES to inform the Mind in Points commonly reckon'd both useful, and entertaining, and at the fame Time of univerfal Concernment; if they are fo framed as to answer their End, it is a fufficient Apology for their Publication. They might indeed bave been thrown into the Form of Ejays, or Differtations on fuch and fuch Subjects; but as the prefent Form was defignedly pitch'd on to please the Publick, and for no other Reafon than as judging it more entertaining, the Author hopes his Defign to pleafe will at least be pardon'd, even by fuch as may think he has taken an improper Way for it. He bas endeavour'd at least at Truth in the Points be treats of, and if he happens in fome Things to differ from fome of his Readers, as he knows it impoffible to agree with every one, he has only to fay be impofes his Tenets on no one, and will as foon as convinced as readily change his Sentiments, as Philander does in Dialogue the Vth, where as the Reader will easily fee the Plan is alter'd, and for the very fame Reason that is there related. It is a Debate he knows which has been lately agitated, but which he has therefore purpofely refrain'd from Reading, that he might not be biafs'd by any meer human Authority, but by that more perfect Rule of Faith the facred Writings. And to conclude, tho' he does not pretend to new Difcoveries, the Reader may yet meet with Jome Things fet here in a different Light than perhaps he has feen them before: and be thereby led both to study the Scripture with more Application, and to do it with more Understanding.

THE

CONTENTS.

DIALOGUE I.

Brief Account of the Perfons concern'd

A

in the following Dialogues, and of the

Occafion of their falling into thefe Difcourfes.

A Question Started by Crito, where is Heaven?

which is purfued for fomeTime between him and

Philander, and in which the common Opinion

is fhewn to be very improbable.

DIALOGUE II.

pag. I

The Debate continued between Philander

and Crito, till broke off by the Interpofition of

Theophilus; who directs them in this Cafe to

confult the Scriptures. The Infufficiency of

Philofophy to determine this Point. Some Re-

marks on the Nature of Motion, and that it

cannot be perform'd but in a proper Medium:

And on the great Unreasonableness of our ex-

pecting to become in a Manner unconfin'd, and

omnipotent, as foon as ever fet free from the

Body.

pag, 8.

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