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SECT.
PROOF
OF
A
SEPARATE STATE.
327
is
all
that
is
necessarily meant,by
a
particular
judgment
of
each soul
at
death,
whether
it
pass
under the
solemn
formalities
of a
judgment and
a tribunal, or
no.
Objection
XIV.
If
the saints can
be
happy
without
a
body,
what
need
of
a resurrection
?
Let
the body be
as refined,
as
active, as powerful
and glorious
as
it can
be, still
it
must
certainly
be
a
clog to the soul
:
And this
was
the
objection,
that
the heathen philosophers made
to,
the
doctrine
of
the resurrection, which the christians pro
-.
fess
;
for the philosophers
told them,
this
resurrectiòn,
which
they called
their
highest reward, was really
a pu-
nishment.
Answer.
The
force
of
this
objection has been quite
taken
away before,
when
it
has
been
shewn,
.
that
man,
being
a
creature
compounded
of
body
and
spirit, was
designed
for its highest
happiness,
and the perfection
of
its
nature,
in
this
state
of
union,
and
not
in a
state
.of
separation. And let it
be observed,
that,
when the
body
shall be
raised from
the grave,
it shall'not
be such flesh
and blood
as we
now
wear,
nor
made
of
such materials,
as shall clog or
obstruct the
soul in
any
of
its
most
vi-
gorous and
divine exercises
;
but it
shall
be
a
spiritual
body,
1
Cor.
xv..
44. a
body fitted to serve
a
holy
and
a
glorified
spirit
in its
actions and
its enjoyments,
and to
render
the spirit capable
of
some
further
excellencies,
both of
action and enjoyment,
than it
is
naturally capa-
ble
of
without
a body.
What sort of qualities
this new
-
raised
body shall
be
endued
with, in
order
to
increase
the.
excellency, or
the happiness
of
pious
souls,
will
be,
in
a great
measure,
a
mystery,
or a
secret,
till
that
blessed
morning appears.
Objection
XV.
Is not
our immortality
in
scripture,
described
as
built upon
the
incorruptible state of our
new-
raised
bodies,
I
C,or.
xv.
.53.
"This
corruptible must
put
on
incorruption,
and
this
mortal must
put
on
immor-
tality."
But the doctrine
of
the immortality
of the
soul
is
not particularly
found or
taught
in
scripture.
Answer.
It
is
granted,
that
the
immortality
of
the
new=raised
body
is
bnilt
on
that
incorruptible
sort
of
materials,
of
which
it
is
to
be formed,
or
which
shall
be mingled with
it,
or the
incorruptible
qualities,
which
shall
be
given to
it
by
God
himself: But the soul
is
im-
mortal
in
itself,
whether
with, or
without
a
body
;
And
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