THESE Confequences, as W. P. fhews, do naturally follow from afferting the Refurrection of the fame Body; to avoid which the Vicar fays, P 227. We always diftinguish between the Body as it is fown in the Grave, a natural, Earthly, Mortal Body; and as it is raised a fpiritual, heavenly and immortal Body;' But let him diftinguish as the Apostle does, 1 Cor. XV. 44. There is a natural Body, and there is a Spiritual Body, from which diftinction Thomas Ellwood infers, that the Apoftle really makes two diftinct Bodies. But the Vicar p. 228. finds fault with this, and fubftitutes a new Way of diftinguishing, between a natural, earthly, mortal Eody, and a fpiritual, heavenly, and immortal Body, while yet (according to him) they are not distinct Bodies, but One and the fame Body.

He proceeds p. 228. And, which is very ftrange, they make the largeDescription of the Refurrection of the Dead in that Chapter not to relate at all to the Refurrection of the Body, but ⚫ to the two States of Men in the natural and spiritual Birth; contrary to the plain import of the Words and the Senfe of all found Chriftians. For this he cites W. P's. Invalidity of John Faldo's Vindication. p. 369. 370.

BUT W. Penn fays no fuch matter, concerning the large Description of the Resurrection of the Dead in that Chapter; but fpeaking particularly of the 44th Verfe, fays, (p) I do utterly deny that this Text is concerned in the Refurrection of Man's carnal Body at all. And then recites it with the five following Verfes, which treat ofthe first and second Adam, and bearing the Images of the Earthly and of the heavenly. So that W. Penn's Discourse on

(p) See W. P's vol. 2. p. 438.

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that Head is limited to the Sense of those fix Verfes; Whereas the Apoftle through forty Verfes of that Chapter preceding had been treating of the Refurrection of the Dead, which W. P. does not at all deny.

THE Vicar proceeds, p. 228. To fhew the great increase of the Happiness of a pious Soul to have its Body, that dies, raised and reunited again to it. And p. 229. And p. 229. fays, If even thefe grofs earthly Bodies here, especially when they are in a found and healthful State, ⚫ and brought in Subjection to the Spirit, as they are in a good Measure in good Men now, are capable of Miniftring to the Soul fo much Pleafure and Delight, tho' allay'd with a mixture of Sorrow and trouble; no doubt our pure refined Cæleftial Bodies which we fhall have at the Refurrection, and which will be in a Healthful State, and entirely fuited and fubfervient to the Spiritual Operations of the Soul, will be capable of Miniftring to it • much more Pleasure and delight, and of a • much more noble, fpiritual, and Heavenly Nature, without any the leaft mixture of Sorrow and Trouble.

BUT how much Pleasure and Delight, the grofs earthly Bodies of good Men here do Mi- . nifter to their Souls, he has not told us; that thefe grofs earthly Bodies have been a Grief and Burden to the Souls of good Men, fromwhich they have defired earnestly to be released, may be reasonably concluded from the Words of the Apostle Paul, 2 Cor. v. 2, 3. 4. For in this we groan earnestly, defiring to be clothed upon with our Houfe which is from Heaven. If fo be that being clothed, we shall not be found naked; for we

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that are in this Tabernacle do groan being burdened. And Verfe, 8. We are confident I fay, and wiling,rather to be abfent from the Body and present with the Lord. The Apoftle, 'tis plain, plac'd his Happiness in an Abfence from this grofs Earthly Body; is it then in any wife probable that that he fhould look for, and expect a Reunion to that fame Body of which he fays, V. 6. Whilft we are at Home in the Body we are abfent from the Lord? The contrary we think is evident from his own exprefs Declaration. V. 1. For we know that if the earthly Houfe of this Tabernacle were diffolved, we have a building of God, an Houfe not made with Hands, eternal in the Heavens. Which directly concludes the Change not of Accidents but of Bodies; though the Vicar afferts fuch Conclufion to be most falfe, p. 238. but dogmatically, and without Proof.

He truly acknowledges p. 229, that there is a Refurrection of the Dead mentioned in Scripture, that is to be understood in a Spiri⚫tual Senfe, of the Refurrection of the Soul from the Death of Sin, to a Life of Righteoufnefs.' but adds, p. 230. This feems to be all that many of them [the Quakers] at least under• ftand by the Refurrection of the Dead, and so are in the fame Error with Hymeneus and Philetus, who faid, The Refurrection was already past. 2 Tim ii. 18.' How fond is he of making the Quakers Erroneous; who concludes pofitively, they are in an Error, from what he fays, it feems many of them underftand. So that from premises at moft but feemingly true, he draws a Conclufion directly falfe, for the Quakers do firmly believe, that befide the Refurrection of the Soul from the Death of Sin, to a Life of Righteousness while here, there will be a Refur

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rection of the Dead hereafter, and that we must • all appear before the Judgment Seat of Chrift that every one may receive the Things done in his Body, according to what he hath done, whether it be good or bad. 2 Cor. v. 10. What therefore our Opponent fays, and this is what many of the Quakers have been heard to fay, that they expected no Refurrection but what they had already within them, or what they were to receive immediately after Death,' we decline the Belief of, till he fhall fatisfy us :

I. Whether ever he heard any Quakers fay fo?

II. Who they were?

III. If he did not hear them himself, who did? IV. How many were heard to say so, and where they dwell?

WE can affure him that there are many Perfons, whofe Acqaintance and freedom of Converfation with the Quakers muft needs have far exceeded his, that never heard from them any fuch faying, 'tis much they should discover to a professed Adversary, what they conceal from their moft Intimate Friends.

P. 230. And they have in their Books exprefly oppofed the faying, that the glorified Saints in Heaven do yet hope for the Refur⚫rection of their Bodies.'

WHEN he fhall prove by plain Scripture that the glorified Saints in Heaven, do hope for the Refurrection of the fame Bodies that they had here on Earth, we fhall acknowledge thofe to be mistaken who oppofe that Notion, which the Text he produces, viz. Rom. viii. 23, 24. is ve

ry far from proving. The Words of the Apoftle are; We our felves groan within our felves waiting for the Adoption, to wit, the Redemption of our Body. But 'tis a moft unnatural Confequence to infer, from the Saints here on Earth waiting for the Redemption of their Bodies, that fo must the glorified Saints in Heaven too; feeing they are already delivered from the Bondage of Corruption into the glorious Liberty of the Children of God.. Verfe. 21.

As to Richard Hubberthorn, whom in p. 338. he cites as faying There is no fuch Doctrine in Scripture as that the Saints have not received the Redemption of their Eodies.' R. Hubberthorn's Words are, If the People mind the Scripture, there is no fuch Doctrine in it, as the Saints in Heaven have not the Redemption of their Eodies. Now the Vicar left out the Words in Heaven, that he might make R. H's Affertion feem oppofite to that of the Apostle, Rom. vii. 23, 24. who plainly fpeaks of himself and other Saints then on Earth.

P. 231. IT is very plain that the Refurrection from the Dead joined with the laft Judge⚫ment can be no other than the Refurrection of the Body that died. For 'tis the Body only that dies, and that can be raised again. And therefore when the Queftion is put, How ( are the Dead raifed up? it immediately follows; And with what Body do they come 1. Cor. xv. 35.

BUT the Answer to that Question, which he has modeftly omitted, directly contradicts what he has afferted; Thou foweft not, fays the Apoftle, that Body which shall be. Whence 'tis plain, that 'tis not the fame Body that dies that fhall be