fri ®tttribifl itran'xi tiebemption. . 367 ourmortal Rate. He bath revealedas the quality,fo the Cha , a 8. extent of it, relating tothe Body as well as the Soul. 1,,, Whereas thePhilofophers of feveral Seats, the Acade- micks, Stoicks, Epicureans, labouringwith all theforce oftheir underftanding, formed a Felicity according to their Fancies, which was either wholly Senfual, or elfe but for halfOfman: For ofthe Refurredion,and confe- quently the Immortality of the Body, not the leaft no- tice for many Ages ever arrived to them . our Saviour who alone had the words ofeternallife, hath promifed a Happinefs that refpeEts entire man : TheSoul and the Body whichare his ef[ential parts fhall beunited and en- dued with all the glorious qualities becoming the Sons ofGod. Andofall this he hath given to the world the higheft afiurance : For heverified his Dothine by his own Example ; riling from theGrave, and appearing to his Apoflles crown'd with Immortality, andvifibly of- cendtng before them to Heaven. Since there is no grea- ter Paradox to Reafon than the RefurreEtion, which . feemed utterly incredible tomen, and not to be the ob- jedof arational Liefire ; God by railing him from the Grave, hathgiven the molt convincing Argument that oar Redeemer was fent from him, to acquaint the World with thefuture fine. Thus the Apoflle fpeaks to the Ath rnians, The times ofignoranceGod winked at, AEt. *7. 30. but no ,ocomma?odeth allmen every-where to repent; becaufe he kith appointeda day, wherein hewilljudg the World in righteoujn s,.by that:Ulan whom he hath.ordained,whereof be bathgven ajju2ance untoall Men, in that he bath railed himfro n the dyad Jefus Carift who was =died from Heaven to be the San ofGod by that great and power- ful Ah, declared the Recompences that fhall attend Men after Ueath ; therefore a full andperf-daant is due to his Teimony. Hell withail Its Dread and Terror is not a,Pitur, drawitby fancy to >.ffr,.ght the World,
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