we may reasonably fuppofe by his producing that Text Heb. x 23. where no fuch Matter as the Refurrection of the Body is in any wife treated of.

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(r) WHO raife Questions and make Articles ⚫ of Faith, about the Refurrection of the fame Body, where the Scripture fays nothing of the fame Body; or if it does it is with no fmall Reprimand to those who make fuch an Enquiry. • But fome Man will fay, how are the Dead raifed • up up? And with what Body do they come? Thou Fool, that which thou foweft is not quickened except it die. And that which thou foweft, thou Joweft not that Body that ball be, but bare Grain, it may chance of Wheat or of fome other Grain: but God giveth it a Body as it hath pleafed him. Words, I fhould think, fufficient to deter us . from determining any thing for or against the fame Body being raised at the laft Day. It fuffices, that all the Dead fhall be raised, and every one appear and answer for the Things done in this Life, and receive according to the Things he hath done in his Body, whether good or bad. He that believes this, and has faid nothing inconfiftent herewith, I prefume may, and muft be acquitted, from being guilty of any thing inconfiftent with the Article of the Refurrection of the Dead."

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Apfw. Yes, it fhall be the fame Body for Subftance, for this the Resurrection of the Body neceffarily implies, but it fhall not be the fame, but greatly changed, as to its Qualities.

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HERE he tells us within the Compass of three Lines, that it fall be the fame Body, and that, it fhall not be the fame; to reconcile this feeming Contradiction, it might be neceffary for him to fhew, how far the Qualities of a Body may be changed without any Alteration of its Subftance. But that is a Task he feems not qualified for. He tells us however, They fhall be fpiritual Bodies not of a fpiritual Subftance, for then they could not be Bodies, but endued with fpiritual Qualities.' Here, though perhaps he may have adapted his Speech to his own Understanding, yet if others cannot difcern how that which is not of a fpiritual Subftance can be a fpiritual Body, he ought in Condescension to their Weakness farther to explain himself.

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But what a Liberty does the Vicar take in interpreting these Words of the Apostle, but God giveth it a Body as it pleafeth him, 1 Cor. xv. 38. The Bodies of the Saints, fays he, shall be raifed again, much altered as to their Condition and Qualities, and clothed with new Ornaments fuitable to them, as it pleateth God.' By which he reprefents the Apostle fo improperly fpeaking, as to ufe the Term Body for new Ornaments fuitable to the Body.

BUT the Vicar adds, p. 234. That it fhall be raised the fame Body for Substance that was fown, he plainly afterwards declares, when he fays, This corruptible fhall put on Incorruption; which cannot be meant of another, but of this fame numerical Body that is fown.'

BUT if this Corruptible, while here in a corruptible State, be not the fame numerical Body, why muft it be the fame numerical Body when it fhall put on, Incorruption?

Philofophers will tell us that a Man's Body while here in the different Stages of his Life is not the fame numerical Body.

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at five or fifteen, was no doubt HIS Body as much as that which he did things in at fifty was • HIS Body, tho' his Body were not the very fame Eody at thofe different Ages: And fo will the Body, which he shall have after the Refurrection, be his Body, though it be not the very fame with that which he at five or fifteen, or fifty. He that at threefcore is broke on the Wheel, for a Murder he committed at twenty, is punished for what he did in his Body; tho' the Body he has, i. e. his Body at threescore, be not the fame, i. e. made up of the fame individual Particles of Matter, that that Body was, which he had forty Years before. When · your Lordship has refolved with felf what that fame immutable He is, which at the laft Judgment fhall receive the Things done in his Body; your Lordfhip will eafily fee, that the Body he had when an Embrio in the Womb, when a Child playing in Coats, when a Man marrying a Wife, and when bedrid dying of a Confumption, and at last which he shall have after his Refurrection, are each of them his Body, though neither of them be the fame Bo6 dy, the one with the other.

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