 this world, and produce not only so much honest industry, but so many wars and fightings, such cruel oppressions, and that variety of woes we read of in the tragical history of the world. Even one of them does wonders. Cunnus teterrim• belli causa. And when united, the force is irresistible.
But as I was saying, when this fluid ceases to flow, the man has done with lust and hunger. The pope, the warriour, and the maid, are still. The machine is at absolute rest, that is, in perfect insensibility: And the soul of it is removed to the vestibulum or porch of

the highest holy place; in and Burnet of the Charter-house), as needful to our contact with the material system; —as it must exist with a spiritual body to be sure, (says the Rev. Mr. Caleb Fleming, in his Survey of the search after souls), because of its being present with its Saviour, beholding his glory, who is in human form and figure, which requires some similitude in the vehicle, in order to the more easy and familiar society and enjoyment. Or, as the learned Master of Peter-house, Dr. Edmund Law, and Dr. Sherlock, Bishop of London, informs us, it remains insensible for ages, till the consummation of all things; — from the dissolution of the body, is stupid, senseless, and dead asleep till the resurrection.
Such was the case of my friend, Dr. Stanvil; he dropt down dead at once. A rarefaction in his stomach, by the heat and fermentation of what he had taken the night before at supper, destroyed him. That concave viscus, or bowel, which is seated in the abdomen below the diaphragm, I mean the stomach, was inflamed, and as the descending trunk of the aorta passes down between it and the spine, that is, between the stomach and back part of the ribs, the inflation and distention of the bowel compressed and constringed the transverse section of the artery aorta, in its descending branch, and by lessening

it, impeded the descent of the blood from the heart, and obliged it to ascend in a greater quantity than usual to the head. By this means, the parts of the head were distended and stretched with blood, which brought on an apoplexy, and the operation upward being violent, the equilibrium was intirely broken, and the vital tide could flow no more. This I found on opening the body. I likewise observed that, exclusive of the compressure of the descending trunk of the artery
