THE

DOCTRINE OF IMMORTALITY.

BY

JAMES H. WHITMORE.

"Christ....hath brought life and immortality to light through the Gos
pel."-PAUL

"In essentials unity; in non-essentials liberty; in all things charity."-
AUGUSTINE.

BUCHANAN, MICHIGAN:

Western Advent- Christian Publishing Association,

:

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by

The Western Advent-Christian Pablishing Association,

in the Clerk's Once ofthe District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

HISTORICAL INQUIRY.

Who first taught the doctrine of the immortality of the soul?

The Egyptians. Testimony of Herodotus. Of Bunsen.

Egyptian belief. Testimony of Tytler. Were Egyptian

priests superior to the writers of the Old Testament?

Buddhism. Brahminism. Grecian school of philosophy.

The Ionic. The Italic. The Academy. The Peripatetic.

The theories of Thales, Anaxagoras, Pythagoras, Socrates,

Plato, and Aristotle. The opinion of Cicero. Testimony

of Bishop Warburton. The Grecian schools unanimous in

teaching a future life through the natural immortality of

the soul. The Arabian school an exception to ancient be-

lief. Testimony of Dr. Good. The Double Doctrine.

The Pious Fraud. Plato's sanction. Cicero's admission.

Testimony of Dr. Whately. Summary of historical in-

quiry....
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CHAPTER II.

JEWISH BELIEF.

Common opinion erroneous. Testimony of Bishop Lowth.

Of Dr. Kitto. Of Gibbon. Josephus- his reliability as a

historian of religious belief. His account of the doctrine

of the Essenes. Speech of Titus to his soldiers. The argu-

ment of Josephus against suicide founded on the assumption

that the soul is immortal. Its ill success. Eleazer's argu-

ment in favor of suicide based on the deathless nature

of the soul. Its complete success. Belief of the Phari-

sees and Sadducees. Their doctrine condemned by our

Lord. Testimony of the Apocrypha. Summary of Jewish

belief....

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