We likewife believe the Refurrection of the • Dead, both of the Juft, and of the Unjust; though we do not pofitively determine, what Qualities, &c. are altered, or what remains the fame, when a Natural Body is changed into a Spiritual Body; therefore we determine nothing magifterially, concerning the Change the Refurrection Body fhall receive at the Sound of the laft Trumpet, but what the Holy Ghoft hath • been pleased to reveal in the Scriptures, viz. That this Corruptible, fhall put on Incorruption; "That this Mortal, fhall put on Immortality. How great an Alteration there is in a corruptible Body, when it hath put on Incorruption; or in a Mortal Body, when it hath put on Immortality; I am not afhamed to acknowledge my Ignorance therein. WITH what Body fhall the Dead arife? was a Query in the Apostle Paul's Time: What Answer he gave the curious Inquirer then, may ⚫ be feen 1 Cor. xv. 36, &c. and may also serve G. K. now, Thou Fool, that which thou foweft is not quickened, except it die. And that which. thou foweft, thou foweft not that Body that shall 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. An Anfwer, that, in my Opinion, fhould deter all Chriftians from determining any thing dogmatically, wherein the Sameness of the Refurrection Body, doth, or ⚫ doth not confift; conceiving, that we should • reft fatisfied in what the Scriptures fay on this Subject, which is, That the Dead fhall arife. 6 In this Chapter the Apoftle difcourfeth very largely concerning the Refurrection of the Dead, yet < yet feemeth very cautious here in wording his Matter about it; neither in this Chapter, nor in any other Place of his Writings, affirming, In totidem terminis, the Refurrection of the fame Body. But where he speaks of the Refurrection, he doth not fay, of the dead Fodies, but fimply of the Dead, as a sasis vexgv, the Refurrettion of the Dead ; not ἀνάςασις τῶν σωμάτων Tav vexgav, the Refurrection of the Bodies of the Dead; o vengde (not vexpa') in eyeipova, if the • Dead are not rifen ; δι κοιμηθέντες (not & κοιμηθέντα) they that leep πάντες (not πα τα) ζωοποιήσονται, all fhall be made alive: Here is vengde ó TÁVTES two Adjectives and an Article, all three of the' Mafculine Gender; if they had any Reference to Zuala, Bodies, they must have been of the Neuter; whereby it demonftratively follows, the Apostle did not predicate these Terms of Eodies; neither do I find in any Place of my Bible, in exprefs Words, the Resurrection of the fame Body affirmed. 6 6 . IT hath always been our principal Concern, to word our Difcourfes (efpecially when we fpeak of the Principles of our Faith) as much as may be in Scripture-Terms; if others did the like, we are inclined to believe, there would be more Love and Unity amongst the Profeffors of Christianity, than now there are. We think it a great Piece of Prefumption, and Arrogance, in any Mortal, Dictator-like, pofitively to determine, wherein the Sameness of a Natural Body, • when it is changed into a Spiritual Body doth, • and wherein it doth not confift. As G. K. confidently affirmeth, that the Change was not Page 93, in Substance, but in Accidents: For (faith he) 6 • Take away the Subftance of any thing; and no Accidents can remain of any thing. Suppofe I • fhould fhould fay, Take away all the Accidents from a Material Subftance, and what remains, G. K. may put in his Eye, without injuring his Sight, not doubting to prove this my Suppofition, when G. K. in intelligible Words, demonftrateth the Truth of his Affertion? But wherein to place the Sameness of a Spiritual Substance, that was once a Natural one, we fufpend dictating any thing pofitively concerning it, conceiv ing that we shall never have a certain, adequate ⚫ and comprehenfive Notion of the Qualities of a Refurrection-Body, till the laft Day, we actually experience it in our felves. . NEVERTHELESS, though we do not affect School-Terms, which have been Midwived into the World by Heathen Philofophers, as Substance and Accidents; nor Magifterially determine, wherein the Identity of the Refurrection-Body fhall • confift; yet we do unfeignedly believe, as our ⚫ ancient Friend 7. Crook, in his Treatife, called • Truth's Principles, Printed Anno 1663, faith, • The Dead fhall be raised with the fame Bodies, as far as a natural and Spiritual,corruptible and incorruptible, terreftrial and celestial, can be the fame. THE feveral Texts produced by our Oppo. nent, p. 236. viz. Dan. xii. 2. John v. 28, 29. Re. xx. 13. are not to his Purpose, for they mention nothing of the Sameness of the Body. His Inftances of Enoch and Elias are not pertinent to the present Cafe, which relates to the Refurrection of the fame Bodies which have been dead and corrupted in the Grave. BUT he seems to build much on the Words of Job, Though after my Skin Worms destroy my Bo dy, ་ < dy, yet in my Flefh fhall I fee God; whom I shall fee for my felf, and mine Eyes fhall bebotd, and not another. Job. xix. 25, 26. which, he fays, Job could not have truly faid, if the fame Flesh and Eyes he then had, and wherein he had patiently fuffered, and kept his Integrity still, were not to be raised again." IF Job in that Place fpeaks only of his being delivered from the State of Affliction he was then in, and restored to his former State of Health and Profperity in this World; his Words will do the Vicar no real Service, The Seventy Interpreters render it thus. Ver. 25. διδα γαρ οτι αένναός εσιν ὁ ἐκλύειν με μέλλων, ἐπὶ γῆς. 26. ̓Αναςῆσαι τὸ δέρμα με τὸ ἀναντλῶν ταῦτα, παρα γάρ κυρία ταυτα μοι συνετελέπη, 27. Αέγω ἐμαυτῳ συνεπίσαμαι, ἃ δ ̓ Οφθαλμός μου ἑώρακε κὶ ἐκ ἄλλος, πάντα δέ μοι συντετέλεσαι ἐν κόλπων The plain Import of which in English is, Ver. 25. I know that he lives for ever, who will fet me at Liberty [from my prefent Troubles] on Earth. 26. To restore my Skin thus dried up; for thefe Things shall be accomplished for me by the Lord. 27. Which I am fully perfwaded of in my felf, which my Eye bath feen, and not another; for all Things have been fulfilled to me in my Bosom. Pag. Pag. 237. We have before fhewn from 7. Lock, that, • whatever Matter is vitally united to a Man's Soul, is his Body, as much as that which was united to it when he was born, or in any other Part of his Life.' So that our Opponent by his falfe Philofophy, hath at most but weakly attempted to prove the Sameness of our Bodies at the general Refurrection; much less has he proved it to be an Article of Faith. Nor is the believing the Refurrection of the fame Body that dies of any fuch Importance as he talks of pag. 238. fince the fcripture Doctrine of the Refurrection of the Dead, may be fully believed without it; according to thofe Texts of the Apostle Paul, 1 Theff. iv. 16, 17. For the Lord himself fhall defcend from Heaven with a Shout, with the Voice of the Archangel, and with the Trump of God, and the Dead in Chrift shall rife first, then we which are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with them in the Clouds to meet the Lord in the Air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 1 Cor. xv. 51, 52. We shall not all Steep, but we shall all be changed, in a Moment, in the twinkling of an Eye, at the laft Trump, (for the Trumpet fhall found) and the Dead fhall be raifed incorruptible, and we shall be changed. WE fhall close this Section with fhewing how the Vicar perverts Jofeph Wyeth's Words, whom he brings in, p. 238. as pofitively, (but most falfly) determining in his Switch p.243. that, that Paifage of St. Paul 2 Cor. v i. concludes the < Change not of Accidents, but Bodies, from an Earthly |