420 RESURRECTION OF THE SAME BODY. There may be another inanimate :body which has life given to it indeed, but nothing is revived. Perhaps this sort of argumenta- tion may have some weight in it. '3. Christ himself saith ; John v. 28. They that are in the graves shall come forth:. This must refer to the same body that died ; for it is not the soul, nor is it any other body that was pro- perly put into the grave, but the animal body of man which is now inanimate deed. 4. It seems to be the design of the apostle, to sliew that it is the same body which died in some respects, though not in all respects, which shall be räised again to life: 1 Cor. xv. 42. So is the resurrection of the dead. It, i. e. the body, is sown in corruption, it is raised in- incorruption, £(c. It, i. e. the body, is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. It is the same human body still, but with different qualities. So ver. 52, 53. `° The dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. This corruptible shall put on incorruption, this mortal shall put on immortality ;" which seems to be spoken both with regard tó those who shall be raised from the dead, as well as those who shall be changed at the coming of Christ. It is this mortal and this corruptible, that is, this very ani- mal body, which was mortal and corruptible, must be raised immortal. To this I might add, that the apostle, Rom. viii. 11. speaks ofthese very mortal bodies which we now have, and affirms they shall be quickened, &c. and Phil. iii. ult. " this body of our vile- ness or humiliation is to be changed, and made like to the glo- rious body of Christ." Súrely such expressions denote the saine body. But the substance and strength of all the arguments de- rived from scripture to prove the resurrection of the saine body, may be found well put together in Dr. Whitby's Preface to the First Epistle tó the Corinthians. Those who with Mr. Locke make the resurrection of the same individual body needless, may alledge such reasons as these. 1. It attains nó valuable purpose to confine the resurrection to the saine atoms of matter ; for if the same soul be united to anymass of the same sort of substance, i. e, toany matter, there is á sufficient provision for every thing that regards the happi- ness or misery of the rising dead : Since the body itself, or mere matter, has no sensation ; and the soul will have the saine sort of sensations, (whether pleasant to reward it, Or painful to punish it) whatsoever other particles of matter it may be united to, as if it were united to the same particles it had in this world, and in which it obeyed or sinned. Besides it is worthy of our observation whatMr. Locke says on this subject. " If it should. be demanded what greater con- gruity the soul bath to any particles of matter which were once
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=