Sadduceeism

That though Philosophical Discourses to justifie the common belief about Witches, are nothing at all to them, or those of their measure; yet they are too seasonable and necessary for our Age, in which Atheism is begun in Sadducism; And those that dare not bluntly say, There is NO GOD, content themselves (for a fair step and Introduction) to deny there are SPIRITS or WITCHES.

The doctrine, then, which is populary known as “annihilationism,”—which denies the immortality of the soul, and teaches that it perishes at death with the body, is in its main features SADDUCEEISM.