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THIS may serve to fhew, why, though the Materials of our Saviour's Body were not changed at the Refurrection; yet it does not C follow, but that the Body of a Man, dead and rotten in his Grave, or burnt, may at the laft Day have feveral 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 part of his • Life.

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In the New Teftament, fays he, (wherein I think, are contained,all the Articles of the ChriStian 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 Refurrecti⚫on 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.

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brought with them the Evidence, that they were those who had been dead, whereof there were these two Proofs; their Graves were opened, and their Bodies not only gone out of them, but appear'd to be the fame to thofe who had known them formerly alive, and ⚫ known them to be dead and buried; For if they had been those, who had been dead fo long, that all who knew them once alive were now 6 gone, those to whom they appeared might have known them to be Men, but could not have known they were rifen from the Dead, ⚫ because they never knew they had been dead. All that by their appearing they could have known, was, that they were fo many living • Strangers, of whofe Refurrection they knew nothing. 'Twas neceffary therefore, that they 'fhould come in fuch Bodies, as might in Make and Size, &c. appear to be the fame they had be fore, that they might be known to thofe of their Acquaintance whom they appeared to. And 'tis probable, they were fuch as were newly Dead, whofe Bodies were not yet diffolv'd and diffipated; and therefore 'tis particularly faid here (differently from what is faid of the general Refurection) that their Bodies arofe: because "they were the fame, that were then lying in their Graves, the Moment before they arofe.

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As if theError of theSadducees had been their dif belief of the Refurrection of the fame Body; whereas their Error was in holding there was no Refurrection of the Dead at all; and that our Saviour's Anfwer was not to convince them of the Refurrection of the fame Body, is evident, by his Inftancing Abraham, Ifaac, and Jacob, as rifen from the Dead; which could not be intended of their Bodies, for they (upon this Opponent's own Principles) were not to be raifed again till the general Refurrection at the laft Day.

BUT the Vicar backs his Inftances with thefe Words, And the Power of God is fufficient to answer all the Objections that can be brought from human Reafon and Philofophy, against the poffibility of it. And he is Faithful who has promised to do it, and as he is able will undoubtedly do it. Heb. x. 23.

WE neither Question the Power,nor Will of God, to do whatsoever hehath promised; but that he has any where promifed, that the fame Lödies of ours fhall be raised again at the laft Day, the Vicar has not hitherto prov'd and that he is fenfible he cannot prove it from the Writings of the New Teftament

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