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The Soul
by Jonathan Edwards
I am informed that you
have advan[c]ed a notion that Soul is matereal & keeps wth ye body till
ye resur[e]ction as I am a profes’t Lover of Novelty you Must allow me
to be much entertain’d by this discovery wch however old in some parts
of ye world is new in this I am informed that you have advanced an
Notion that the Soul is materiall & attends Ye body till ye resurection
as I am a profest Lover of novelty you must immagin I am very much
entertained by this discovery (wch however in some Parts of ye world is
new to us) but suffer my Curiosity a Littel further I wd know ye manner
of ye kingdom before I swear alegance 1st I wd know whether this
materiall Soul keeps wth in ye Coffin and if so whether it might not be
convenient to build a repository for it in order to wch I wd know wt
Shape it is of whether round triangular or fore square or whethe[r] is
it a number of Long fine strings reaching from ye head to ye foot and
whether, it dus not Live a very discontented Life I am afraid when ye
Coffin Gives way ye earth will fall in and Crush it but if should Chuse
to Live above Ground and hover about ye grave how big is it whether it
Covers all ye body or is assined to ye head or breast or how it Covers
all ye body wt it dus when another body is Laid upon that whether ye 1st
First Gives way and if so where is ye place of retreat but soppose ye
Souls are not so big but that 10 or a dozen of you may be about one body
whether yy will not Quarril for ye highest place and as I insist much
upon my honnour and property I wd know wher I must Quit my dear head if
a Superior Soul Comes in ye way but above all I am Consearned to know wt
they do where a Bureing Place has bin filled 20 30 or 100 times if they
are a top of one another ye uppermost will be so far of that it Can take
no Care of ye body I strongly susspect they must march of[f] every time
there Comes anew Set I hope ther is some Good place provided for them
but dupt [d(o)ubt] ye undergoing so much hard Ship & being deprived of
ye body at Last will make them ill temper’d I Live it wth your phisicall
Genus to determin whether some medesinall applications might not be
proper in such Cases and subscrib your proselite when I can have
solution of these maters.
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