raised again. But the Vicar is too apt to run away with Texts which speak of the Refurrection of the Dead, and include they intend the Refurrection of the fame Body: Why elfe doth he mention 1 Cor. xv. 58. 1 Theff. iv. 18. in neither of which the famenefs of Bodies is mention'd.

P. 232. AND we have many Instances in the Scripture, of the Refurrection of the Bodies of ⚫ the Dead to Life again both in the Old and New Teftament; and particularly of the Resurrection of Christ's own Body which was laid in the Grave; which is made an undeniable Proof, Earneft, and Pledge of ours.'

BUT that the Inftance of Chrift's Refurrection with the fame Body does not neceffarily prove, that our Bodies are to be raised the very fame we now have; we fhall do the Vicar the Honour in this Place to produce against him the Teftimony of the learned and judicious John Lock, who in his fecond Reply to the Bishop of Worcefter thus writes,

(q) THE next Text of Scripture you bring for the fame Body, is, If there be no Refurrection of the Dead, then is not Christ raised,. From which your Lordship argues, It feems then other Bodies are to be raised as his was.

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lows, that they fhall be raised with the fame Body, as your Lordship infers in these • Words annexed; And can there be any doubt, • whether his Body was the fame material Subftance which was united to the Soul before? I answer, not at all, nor that it had the fame undistinguished Lineaments and marks, yea and the fame Wounds that it had at the Hour of his Death. If therefore your Lordship will argue from other Bodies being raifed as his was, that they must keep Proportion with his in Sameness; then we must believe that every • Man fhall be raised with the fame Lineaments, ⚫ and other Notes of Diftinction he had at the Time of his Death, even with his Wounds yet open, if he had any, because our Saviour was fo raised; which feems to me fcarce reconcileable with what your Lordship fays of a fat Man falling into a Confumption, and dy

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BUT whether it will confift or no with your Lordship's meaning it that Place, this to me ⚫ feems a Confequence that will need to be better prov'd, viz. That our Bodies must be raised the fame juft as our Saviour's was; because St. Paul fays, If there be no Refurrection of the Dead, then is not Chrift rifen. For it may be a good Confequence, Chrift is rifen, therefore there fhall be a Refurrection of the Dead; and yet this may not be a good Confequence, • Chrift was raised with the fame Body he had at his Death, therefore all Men fhall be raised with the fame Body they had at their Death, contrary to what your Lordfhip fays concerning a fat Man dying of a Confumption. But

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the Cafe, I think, far different betwixt our Sa•viour and those to be raised at the Last Day.

1. His Body faw not Corruption, and therefore to give him another Body, moulded, mixed with other Particles, which • were not contain'd in it as it lay in the Grave, whole and intire as it was laid there, had been to deftroy his Body, to frame a new one without any need. But why with the remainning Particles of a Man's Body long fince diffolved, and moulder'd into Duft and Atoms, (whereof poffibly a great Part may have under gone variety of Changes, and entered into other Concretions even in the Bodies of other Men) other new Particles of Matter mixed with them. ⚫ may not serve to make his Body again, as well • as the mixture of newand different Particles of • Matter with the old, did in the Compass of his Life make his Body; I think no Reason can ⚫ be given.

THIS may ferve to fhew, why, though the Materials of our Saviour's Body were not changed at the Refurrection; yet it does not follow, but that the Body of a Man, dead and rotten in his Grave, or burnt, may at the laft Day have several new Particles in it, and. that without any Inconvenience. Since what• ever Matter is vitally united to his Soul, is his Body, as much as is that, which was united to it • when he was born, or in any other

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be kept in the raifed Body of our Saviour, the fame they were at his Death, to be a Conviction to his Difciples, to whom he fhewed < himself, and who were to be Witneffes of his Refurrection, that their Mafter, the very fame Man was crucified, dead and buried, and raised again; and therefore he was handled by them, ⚫ and eat before them after he was rifen, to give ⚫ them in all Points full Satisfaction, that it was really he, the fame and not another, nor a Spectre or Apparition of him: Though I do not think that your Lordship will thence argue, that because others are to be raised as he was, ⚫ therefore it is neceffary to believe, that because he eat after his Refurrection, others at the laft Day fhall eat and drink after they are raif⚫ed from the Dead; which feems to me as good an Argument, as because his undiffolved Body was raised out of the Grave, juft as it there lay. entire, without the mixture of any new Particles; therefore the corrupted and confumed Bodies of the Dead at the Refurrection shall < be new framed only out of these scattered Par<ticles, which were once united to their Souls, without the leaft mixture of any one fingle A<tom of new Matter. But at the last Day when all Men are raifed, there will be no need to ⚫ be affured of any one particular Man's Refur⚫rection. 'Tis enough that every one fhall ap•pear before the Judgment Seat of Chrift, to receive according to what he had done in his Life; but in what fort of Body he shall appear, of what Particles made up, the Scripture having faid nothing, but that it will be a fpiritual Body raised in Incorruption, it is not for me to • determine.'

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THE next Inftance given by the Vicar, p. 232. is, And fo we are told that the Graves were opened, and many Bodies of Saints that Slept, arofe, • and came out of the Graves, after Chrift's Refurrection, and went into the Holy City, to wit, the City of Jerufalem, and appeared unto many. Matt. xxvii. 52. On which Text let the fame learned Author be heard. (r)

In the New Teftament, fays he, (wherein I <think, are contained,all the Articles of the Chriftian Faith) I find our Saviour and his Apostles to preach the Refurrection of the Dead, and the Refurrection from the Dead, in many Places;

but I do not remember where the Refurrection of the fame Body is fo much as mentioned. Nay, which is very Remarkable in the Cafe, • I do not remember in any Place of the New Teftament, (where the general Refurrection at the laft Day is fpoken of) any fuch Expreffion as the Refurrection oft he Body, much lefs of the fame Body.

I SAY the general Resurrection at the last Day; because where the Refurrection of fome particular Perfons, prefently upon our Saviours Refurrection, is mentioned, the Words are, The Graves were opened, and many Eodies of Saints, which flept, arofe, and came out of the • Grave after his Refurrection, and went into the Holy City, and appeared to many; of which peculiar way of fpeaking of this Refurrection, the Paffage it felf gives a Reafon in thefe Words, appeared to many, i. e. Those who Nept appeared, fo as to be known to be ri fen, but this could not be known, unl fs rey

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