lone in the change of Bodies, would Scarce to any one, but to him that makes the foul the Man, be enough to make the fame Man, and that the Body too goes to the making the Man; no very large conceffion this, though it be the foundation of an answer to that opinion, which is now to be confider'd; and which to Common readers, might seem to be favour'd by the words above, if such a weighty obfervation had not been annex'd to them.

If therefore the Body too goes to the making the Man; then he who is the fame Man in the Refurrection, that hath before lived upon earth, muft confift of the fame Soul and the fame Body. For though Confcioufness do go along with the Soul, and though the Identity of Perfon be fuppofed and Implied in the Identity of Man; yet 'tis peculiarly requifite to the Identity of Man, that the fame Soul be united to the fame

Body, because to the Identity of every Compound Being an Union of the fame Effential parts is required.

But

But this Author in his laft Controverfial Letter to a Learned Bishop, wherein he treats of this fubject, hath observed, * that it would be hard to determine, if that Should be demanded, what greater Congruity the Soul bath, with any particles of matter, which were once vitally united to it, but are now fo no longer; than it hath with particles of matter, which it was never united to. But the Determination of this question will not be thought fo extremely Difficult by any one, who is willing to be determin'd by the Common confent of Mankind, and by the Holy Scriptures.

Though Matter be in it felf void of Senfation; yet when it is formed into a Humane Body and united to the Soul, it is not only endued with Sense, but becomes the Source of certain Propenfions and Appetites, which are in Scripture represented as + warring against the Law of the mind, and bringing men into Captivity to the law of fin: And therefore we are faid, as with the mind to ferve the

*3d. Letter to Bp. Stillingfleet. p. 177. t Rom. vii. 23.

law

law of God, fo* with the Flefh to ferve the law of fin. And as fin is thus charged upon the Inordinate Appetites of the Body; fo thofe Bodies, in which fuch Depraved Appetites are fubdued and mortified, are called the Temples of the Holy Ghost. And this appears to be a fufficient reason for concluding, that in the Refurrection the Soul will have a much greater Congruity with the Body, which it hath inhabited, than with that matter, to which it was never before vitally united; because it seems very agreeable to God's Infinite Juftice, that thofe Bodies which have been enflaved by Sin, fhould be configned to Misery; and that thofe, which have been conformed to the Laws of Right Reason, and the influence of God's Holy Spirit, fhould be made partakers of Happiness: Whereas other portions of Matter, which have not been united to the Soul, and therefore not endued with fuch Affections and Powers, as render'd them Capable of being Sharers in Virtue or Vice,

V. 25.

† 1 Cor. vi. 19.

cannot

cannot with any colour of reafon be deem'd the Objects of Reward or Punishment.

But this Celebrated Mafter of Thought hath undertaken to fhew, by an Argument which he thinks unanswerable, that the fame Body, in which man lives here, is not Neceffary to his Identity in the Refurrection. For, representing the Difparity between the Body of our Saviour when Raised, and the Bodies of other men to be Raised, and endeavouring to prove, that though our Saviour did rife with the fame Body, it does not follow, that we fhall do fo too, he thus discourseth: His * Body faw not corruption, and therefore to give him another. Body new moulded, mixed with other particles of matter, which were not contain'd in it as it lay in the grave, whole and entire as it laid there, had been to destroy bis Body, to frame him a new one without any need. But why with the remaining particles of a man's Body, long fince diffolv'd and moulder'd into dust and atoms

3d. Letter, p. 180, 181.

(whereof

(whereof poffibly a great part may have undergone variety of changes, and entred into other concretions even in the Bodies of other men) other new particles of matter mixed with them, may not ferve to make his Body again, as well as the mixture of new and different particles of matter with the old did in the compafs of his life make his body, I think no reafon can be given.

Now what is here faid would be true, and no reafon could be given against it, if by his body no more were meant than this, That whatsoever particles of matter should at the Refurrection be vitally united to a man's foul, might be faid to conftitute his body at that time; but this does not come up to the purpose of this paffage, which is brought to prove, not only that new matter united to a man's foul may be faid to be his body, at that time Abfolutely, and without Reference to any other time, but that a Body thus made up of New matter may be his Body, so as in conjunction with the foul to conftitute him the fame man, that hath before exifted in this ftate; for that is the only defign of this paffage,

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