Prefixed to this work is an essay toward the proof of a separate state of souls after death. The author's only design in this treatise has been to set the great and most momentous things of a future world in the most convincing and affecting light, and to enforce them upon the conscience with all the fervor that such subjects demand and require. And may our blessed Redeemer who reigns Lord of the invisible world, pronounce these words with a divine power to the heart of every man who shall either read or hear them. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or difficult to read.