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  • A treatise concerning the state of departed souls before, and at, and after the resurrection. Written originally in Latin by the late Rev. Dr. Thomas Burnet, Master of the Charter-House, Author of the Theory of the Earth. Translated into English by Mr. Dennis.

    • Burnet, Thomas, 1635?-1715.
    Date
    MDCXXXIII [i.e. 1733]
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  • A discourse concerning the certainty of a future and immortal state. In some moral, physiological and religious considerations.

    • Coward, William, 1657?-1725.
    Date
    MDCCXLI. [1741]
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  • A treatise concerning Heaven and Hell, containing a relation of many wonderful things therein, as heard and seen by the author, the Honourable Emanuel Swedenborg, Of the Senatorial Order of Nobles in the Kingdom of Sweden. Now first translated from the original Latin.

    • Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772.
    Date
    MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]
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  • A letter to the Reverend Mr. William Warburton, A.M. Occasioned by Some Passages in his Book Intituled, The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated. By a Gentleman of Lincolns-Inn.

    • Webb, Philip Carteret, 1700?-1770.
    Date
    M.DCC.XLII. [1742]
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  • A view of this and the other world; with the state of saints and sinners in both, contrasted. Particularly Describing The solemn Entrance which the Soul makes into the other World at Death. In several practical discourses. By the late Reverend and Learned Mr Thomas Boston, Author of the Fourfold State, &c. &c. Never before printed. Entered in Stationer's Hall.

    • Boston, Thomas, 1677-1732.
    Date
    MDCCLXXV. [1775]
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  • The world unmask'd: or, the Philosopher the greatest Cheat; in twenty-four dialogues Between Crito a Philosopher, Philo a Lawyer, and Erastus a Merchant. In which True Virtue is distinguished from what usually bears the Name or Resemblance of it: The many Prejudices and Mistakes in Judgment and Practice, in regard to conscience and religion, are examined and rectified: And the Value of truth is shewn; with the Reasons why it is not more generally known. To which is added, The state of Souls separated from their Bodies: Being an Epistolary Treatise, wherein is proved, by a Variety of Arguments, deduced from Holy Scripture, that the Punishments of the Wicked will not be Eternal; and all Objections against it solved. In Answer to a Treatise, entitled, An Enquiry into Origenism. Together with A Large Introduction, evincing the same Truth from the Principles of Natural Religion. Translated from the French.

    • Huber, Marie, 1695-1753.
    Date
    MDCCXXXVI. [1736]
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  • Conjectures concerning the nature of future happiness. Translated from the French of Mons. Bonnet of Geneva.

    • Bonnet, Charles, 1720-1793.
    Date
    [1790]
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  • Essai sur la felicité de la vie a-venir. En dialogues. Par C. L. de Villette, Ministre de l' Eglise Francoise de St. Patrick a Dublin.

    • Villette, Charles Louis de, -1769.
    Date
    MDCCXLVIII. [1748]
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  • A view of this and the other world; with the state of saints and sinners in both, contrasted. Particularly Describing The Solemn Entrance Which The Soul Makes into The Other World at Death. In several practical discourses. By the late Reverend and Learned Mr Thomas Boston, Author of the Fourfold State, &c. &c.

    • Boston, Thomas, 1677-1732.
    Date
    MDCCXC. [1790]
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  • The world to come: Or, Discourses on the joys or sorrows of departed souls at death, and the glory or terror of the resurrection. To which is prefixed, An essay toward the proof of a separate state of souls after death. Wherein, after some representations of the happiness of heaven, and a preparation for it, there follows a rational and scriptural account of the punishments in hell, and a proof of their eternal duration. With a plain answer to all the most plausible objections. By I. Watts, D.D.

    • Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.
    Date
    M,DCC,LXXVII. [1777]
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  • Future rewards and punishments believed by the ancients; particularly the philosophers. Wherein some objections of the Revd. Mr. Warburton, in his Divine legation of Moses, are considered. To which is added an address to free-thinkers.

    • Tillard, John.
    Date
    M.DCC.XL. [1740]
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  • Prima, media, et ultima; or, the first, middle, and last things. Containing: Part I. The Doctrine of Regeneration, the beginning of a Godly Life. Part II. The Means, Duties, Ordinances, both Secret, Private, and Publick, for continuance and increase of a Godly Life once begun, till we come to Heaven. Part III. Meditations on Life, Death, Judgment, Hell, the Sufferings of Christ, and Heaven. By Isaac Ambrose, Minister of the Gospel at Preston in Amounderness in Lancashire.

    • Ambrose, Isaac, 1604-1664.
    Date
    M,DCC,LXV. [1765]
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  • The great concern: or, A serious warning to a timely and thorough preparation for death : with helps and directions in order thereunto. By Edward Pearse. Recommended as proper to be given at funerals.

    • Pearse, Edward, 1631-1694.
    Date
    1695
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  • The world to come: or, Discourses on the joys or sorrows of departed souls at death, and the glory or terror of the Resurrection. Whereto is prefix'd, An essay toward the proof of a separate state of souls after death. Vol. I. II. By I. Watts, D.D.

    • Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.
    Date
    M.DCC.XLVIII. [1748]
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  • The Moral library. Containing, I. Principles of virtue and morality. II. On the happiness of the life to come. III. On the immortality of the soul.

    • MacBride, David, 1726-1778
    Date
    1796
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  • The new practice of piety; writ in imitation of Dr. Browne's Religio medici: or The Christian virtuoso: Discovering the Righ way to heaven between all extreams. To which is added, a satyr on the House of Lords, for their throwing out the bill against occasional conformity.

    • Dunton, John, 1659-1733.
    Date
    1704
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  • The great concern; or A serious warning to a timely and thorough preparation for death : with helps and directions in order thereunto. / by Edward Pearse. Recommended as proper to be given at funerals.

    • Pearse, Edward, 1633?-1674?
    Date
    1686
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  • Some thoughts concerning the proofs of a future state, from reason. Occasioned by a Discourse Of the Revd. Mr. Joseph Hallett, junr. on the same Subject. By Henry Grove.

    • Grove, Henry, 1684-1738.
    Date
    [1730]
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  • The doctrine of a future state, and that of the soul's immortality, asserted and distinctly proved; in two letters to a free-thinker. Occasion'd by the late Duke of Buckingham's epitaph. To which is prefix'd, a version of the epitaph. With an introduction, containing extracts of two letters relating to the conduct of that noble lord. By Richard Fiddes, D. D. late rector of Halsham.

    • Fiddes, Richard, 1671-1725.
    Date
    [1725]
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  • Time, and the end of time, in two discourses: the first about redemption of time; the second about consideration of our latter end. By John Fox.

    • Fox, John, active 1676.
    Date
    1733
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  • The mourners cordial against excessive sorrovv : discovering what grounds of hope Gods people have concerning their dead friends by Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. Very suitable to be given at funerals. [Five lines from II Corinthians].

    • Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707.
    Date
    1691
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  • Contemplations of the state of man in this life, and in that which is to come. By Jeremy Taylor, ...

    • Nieremberg, Juan Eusebio, 1595-1658.
    Date
    1707
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  • The great concern: or, A serious warning to a timely and thorough preparation for death : with helps and directions in order thereunto. / by Edward Pearse. Recommended as proper to be given at funerals.

    • Pearse, Edward, 1633?-1674?
    Date
    1699
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  • An answer to Mr. Asgill's book. Entituled, an argument to prove, that according to the Covenant of eternal life revealed in scripture, man may be translated without passing through death, &c. Upon occasion of which; besides a brief disproving of his idle whimsey, more material things are considered, viz. The true nature of saving faith, the true Gospel repentance, and the souls immortality. (All by him ignorantly abused, and too often by many others) are plainly stated and clear'd. Published with license from His Grace the Lord Arch Bishop of Dublin.

    • Nicholson, Edward.
    Date
    1702
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  • The world to come: or, discourses on the joys or sorrows of departed souls at death, and the glory or terror of the resurrection. Whereto is prefix'd, an essay toward the proof of a separate state of souls after death. By I. Watts, D.D.

    • Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.
    Date
    M.DCC.XXXIX. [1739]
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