How is it that the gods, who arranged everything else so well and lovingly, would overlook just this one thing? Some very good people have made promises to God. Through holy actions and worship, they built a close relationship with Him. Yet when these people die, they are never brought back to life. They are gone forever. But you can be sure of this: if it really is this way, the gods would never have arranged it so unless it was right.
how come it to pass that the Gods having ordered all other things so well and so lovingly, should be overseen in this one only thing, that whereas then hath been some very good men that have made many covenants as it were with God and by many holy actions and outward services contracted a kind of familiarity with Him; that these men when once they are dead, should never be restored to life, but be extinct for ever. But this thou mayest be sure of, that this (if it be so indeed) would never have been so ordered by the Gods, had it been fit otherwise.