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But what was meant by "the last day", none at present, I presume, have any idea. All the people, (it was supposed), when they died, or after a certain period, went to the place where that wicked man was confined, which place they call (???), ie hell, or the mean place. They supposed that but little if only (?) happening was to be enjoyed after death; though the souls of people, not uncommonly wicked did not go immortalily (sic?), at death, to that place of misery, but were permit- -ted to stay about the place where their bodies died as long as they had died there. And then, if the persons had lived in other places, the spirit, might go there, and stay as long as long as [sic] the bodies had (???) there, and so on, back to the place of birth, and from there take their eternal departure to the bad place. More spirits, it is said, sometimes assumed (?) the appearance of (???), sometimes of snakes, or of other creatures as they chose. These are probably the spirits called The (???).