Caryl - Houston-Packer Collection BS1415 .C37 v6

Chap. 0. An Expofition upon the Bookof J o B. Verf. 27. 39t mill raire it againe. This very Temple though deftroyed, ¡hall be built up againe. The Apoftle ufeth fuch Identicall expreffions, ( I Cor, r5. 53.) This corruptible, muff: put incorruption,and thù mortali mull put on immortalitie. Thai corruptible, and this mor- tall. He doth not only fay corruptible (hall put on incorruption, and mortali (ball put on immortalitie, but this, and rhi. to thew the fameneffe of it. It was a cut-tome in the primitive times (as tome have obferved, ) when they repeated that article of the faith, Ibelieve the refurretlion of thefieth, to point to their owne bodie and fay, evenof thisflefh, I believe the refnrredtionofthis Etlam hujus' flefh, ofthis bodie. tarai,. One of the Ancients hath a large difcourfe upon this fub- - lënullianus eos jea, wherein he difcovers fome who though they granted the qui rediii foule immortali; yet denied the refurrec4ion of the fame bodie : mæ non ejufdem fuch were the Marcionites Bailidianr and Valentinians. Thefe corporal in re- fayth he, went halves with the Sadduces in their opinion. The 1641'ebíare ad- Sadduces denyed Spirits. Hence ( Ath23.6. ) Paul perceiving (Marcioniras, that theaffembly was mixed ofSadduces and Pbarifeel(and wife- sa,fi idianes;et ly confidering that if he did but minde them of their differen- Vaitnrentanes) ces between themfelves, they would not fo firongly agree and FeBiaris fenat combine againft him) he made his advantage of it by profefíing rësiæ sadducæ- openly that he wad a Pharifee. And the facred Hi ftorian tells us ori, ut quid di- what the peculiar tenets of theSadduces were(v.8. ) The Saddu- midis .n tantum ces fay there is no refurretlion,neitber Angel nor Spirit (they deny- fgnofee oneme- ed both) but the Pharifees confeff e both.They held,that there were Terrut. de re immortal( fptrits or foules united to the bodies of men, that fur: car. 1.2. thofe bodies fhould arife and be reunited to the foule. They alto confefi'ed chat therewere Angels, who are Spirits fubfif+ing properly without bodies. Now, as the Sadduces denyed the re- furrecttion of the bodie fo others denyed the refurredtion of the famebody : Thefehe talleth fluters or halvers in the Sad- duces opirion : Though not fo groffely as they, yet too too grísífely departing from the faith. And indeed they who deny the refurrec`tion of the fame body, doe (by implication) a'ro- Si in 'Olio cor. gether deny the re`urre &ion of the body. For if the fame nu- ;o, parrcgö on:. merical] bodie fhould not rife, it could not be called a refurre- ero,qur rc¡u.go,, &ion : refurreétion is the riling of that which fell, and the ta.; non envi raur- king upof that which wasbefore laid downe. So than it would, rollioditi pote- Yi, ubi non re. be the creation ofa newbodied not the refurredtion of theold; lu*ß t, uxl tea it a'ida's, Greg.;.

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