will not this fophiftical bubble burst in an instant before a moft fimple confideration, pursued through its neceffary confequences? By a common figure, and agreeably to the customary license of fpeech, we talk of the acts, or operations of one of the two conftituent parts of man, as of the acts or operations of the whole. E. G. No foul fees me; or no body fees me; every foul heard him; or no body heard him; are expreffions used indiscriminately, not only in ordinary discourse, but in correct compofition. The foul perceives the voice; the body is raised by divine power, and reunited to it. (bb)

Again: The learned prelate quotes the following words of the Apostle, in fupport of the doctrine of the refurrection as it is held in the Church. We must all appear before the judgmentfeat of Chrift, that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. To which his Lordship fubjoins this queftion: CAN THESE WORDS BE UNDERQ2

STOOD

STOOD OF ANY OTHER MATERIAL SUB

STANCE BUT THAT BODY IN WHICH "A man,

THESE THINGS WERE DONE?

"Mr. L. answers, may fufpend his deter

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mining the meaning of the Apostle to be, "that a finner fhall fuffer for his fins in the

very fame body in which he committed "them becaufe St. Paul does not fay he

:

“shall have the very fame body when he suf"fers, that he had when he finned. The

Apostle fays indeed, done in his body. The "body he had, and did things in at five, or "fifteen, was, no doubt, his body, as much "as that which he did things in at fifty was "his body, though his body were not the

very

Same body at those 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 had

at five, at fifteen, or fifty."* Now agreeing with Mr. L. and the admirers of his doctrine upon this head, that "the body which a man "shall have after the refurrection," according to their scheme, (for what fhall be done in

* Ibid.

or

or at it, we are left to conjecture,) I say, agreeing with them, that this body will be his body, yet we would fain know in what fenfe he could be faid to receive the things done IN IT, or BY IT, according to another reading. A man has his body truly, if not numerically the fame through life, under a greater or less variety of changes and modifications; but by Mr. L's train of reasoning, it should seem that a man may have his body before he is in poffeffion of it. Had the Apostle faid, as a man fins in a body, fo he fhall fuffer in a body, Mr. L's mode of arguing might have been admitted; but as matters ftand at prefent, it has evidently no logic to fupport it.

Once more. "The next text of Scripture you bring for the fame body, fays Mr. L. ❝is, if there be no refurrection of the dead, "then is not Chrift raised. From which your

Lordship argues, IT SEEMS THEN OTHER

"BODIES ARE TO BE RAISED AS HIS WAS.

"I grant other dead as certainly raised as Q3 " Chrift

"Christ was; for else his refurrection would "be of no use to mankind. But I do not fee

how it follows, that they fhall be raised "with the fame body, as your Lordship infers in these words annexed; AND CAN 66 THERE BE ANY DOUBT, WHETHER HIS

BODY WAS THE SAME MATERIAL SUB-
STANCE WHICH WAS UNITED TO HIS

(86 SOUL BEFORE? I anfwer, none at all;

nor that it had just the fame diftinguished "lineaments and marks, yea and the fame "wounds that it had at the time of his death. "If therefore your Lordship will argue from "other bodies being raised as his was, that they must have proportion with his in "SAMENESS, then we muft believe, that

every man shall 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, be"caufe our Saviour was fo raifed; which "feems to be scarce reconcileable with what

your Lordship fays, of A
of A FAT MAN

"FALLING INTO A CONSUMPTION, AND DYING." "'*

* Ibid.

The

The wit here is not worth anfwering; and the fallacy of the paragraph was obviated in fome of the foregoing obfervations. Suffice it to remark that the addition of one word in its proper place would have demolished all this fine fabric of reafoning. Mr. L. fhould have granted, that other dead and BURIED fhall "as certainly be raised as Christ was.” In short, we affirm, on Scriptural authority, that at the last day the bodies of men shall really be raised. The article of the refurrection in our Creeds requires only this belief. We are neither concerned in niceties of conjecture, nor obliged to adopt Mr. L's. notion of identity. (cc)

But to return to Dr. S. I admit that this learned writer has fpeciously enough reconciled a text or two to his favourite tenet, which have been generally referred to the received doctrine. But fhall plaufibility be obtruded upon us for demonstration? Shall it overturn the credit of other interpretations

*See particularly Rom. viii. 11.
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