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A27162	The Resurrection founded on justice, or, A vindication of this great standing reason assigned by the ancients and modern wherein the objections of the learned Dr. Hody against it, are answered : some opinions of Tertullian about it, examined : the learned doctor's three reasons of the Resurrection, inquired into : and some considerations from reason and Scriptures, laid down for the establishment of it / by N.B. ...	Beare, Nicholas.	1700 (1700)	Wing B1564; ESTC R38679	58,906	162

Sin and consequences of it as in the 1 3 6 and 11. Verses O Man … Secondly That he is said to treasure up wrath by which elegant metaphor nothing less can be signified than that his sins are kept in a safe reconditory to be brought forth against the Man in the great Day of Reckoning Thirdly He is also here infallibly certified of the Justice of all the Proceedings then and that 1st From the Nature of the Judgment it self 'T is Righteous 2dly From the Character of the Judge set forth by this Paraphrase who will render to every Man according to his Deeds which most certainly carries an accent and emphasis with it being so often in Scripture repeated as Psal 62. 12. Mat. 16. 27. Rev. 22. 12. 3dly By another Property which makes his Justice altogether as conspicuous 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he is no respecter of Persons Fourthly We have here withal a large amplification of the different states which attend all according to their Deserts Lastly So universal is this last Scrutiny as that no Man whatsoever is exempt from it neither Jew nor Gentile that is no Person at all The Argument from this Authority runs thus There is a time coming when all Men which unavoidably supposes the conjunction of both parts shall make their Personal appearance before a most righteous Judge when all their Deeds of what kind soever shall be brought upon the Stage and they impartially treated without any other respects but their deservings When as St. Athanasius's Creed expresseth it All Men shall rise with their Bodies and give an account of their Works and they that have done Good shall go into life everlasting and they they that have done Evil into everlasting Fire And what is this but Justice both with respect to Body as well as Soul for both are here joined together and one is the inseparable concomitant of the other The Second Authority which I offer for the confirmation of the Doctrine which I endeavour to vindicate is John 5. 28. Marvel not at this for the hour is coming in the which all that are in their Graves shall hear his Voice and shall come forth they that have done Good unto the Resurrection of Life and they that have done Evil unto the Resurrection of Damnation To bring my Text home to the Argument we are necessitated to look back into the context where we find the occasion to be the cure of a Paralitical Man who had laboured under this Chronical Disease for no less a Space than 38 Years at which the Spectators deservedly wonder whereupon our Blessed Saviour gives them an account of a much stranger thing than this namely of the Resurrection of the Bodies of all Men from the first to the last at the end of the World Marvel not at this for the hour cometh when all that are in their Graves c. My observation from this Place for the Advantage of my Argument is First we have here a Resurrection how strange soever and impossible it may seem to be confirmed and established from the Mouth of Christ himself and secondly we have here the consequence of the Resurrection and the main Reason of it which is the matter of our Dispute and I most willingly appeal to the Reason of all Mankind whether it be not manifestly held forth in the latter Clause for tho the illative be suppressed yet t is manifestly implyed and the latter part is exegetical i. e. gives us the Reason of the former The Bodies of good Men are to rise again and to enjoy everlasting Happiness and the Bodies of the Wicked are to be united to their Souls to suffer those punishments in conjunction now which their Sins committed in their former Union have deserved The most natural Sense of the place is as if Christ had said All Men shall rise that they that have done Good may go into Life everlasting and that they that have done Evil unto the Resurrection of Damnation The Third and next Text is Rev. 20. 12 13. I saw the Dead small and great stand before God and the Books were opened and another Book was opened which is the Book of Life and the Dead were Judged out of these things which were Written in the Books and the Sea gave up the Dead which were in it and Death and Hell deliver'd up the Dead which were in them and they were Judged every Man according to their Works In this Vision St. John represents the general Resurrection under the popular Scheme of a grand Assize with allusion in all probability to the like passages of the Prophets Daniel and Malachy Dan. 7. 10. Mal. 3. 16. at which time the Books of Records containing the Indictments and Charges of those Summoned to appear are produced faithfully Read and Examined And as these are found so do the Persons at the Bar either stand or fall Even so is it to all intents and purposes at the Resurrection tho there will be no real Written Books of Registers but the Metaphorical ones of God's Omniscience and every Man's Conscience which carries in it the whole Work of the Court all the Officers of it we are hereby infallibly secured of the Accuracy of Justice in all the Proceedings Every Line and Clause of this Text affords us ample evidence of the Doctrine we contend for As the Bodies of all Men shall arise to be brought to Judgment so shall all their Actions be laid open carefully Scanned Weighed and Exaamined to make the Sentence Righteous Of which the Books that is the Accounts Charges and Works contained in them are the unvariable Measure and Rule inviolably to be observed by the Supreme Judge in the final Determinations of all Men. Now that the force of the Argument of this Text may not be eluded I desire the Reader to consider these three Remarks First The Dead are raised in order to their Tryal and therefore must by all be allowed in a special manner concerned Secondly 't is said expresly that the Dead were Judged which cannot be referred to the Souls of Men which are Immortal no ways subject to Death in the Sense here it must therefore by an unavoidable necessity be understood of the Bodies and so by consequence all the Business of this Judgment from first to the last both the Works and Remuneration fastned here And for the full assurance of which it ought to be Thirdly Farther noted how that 't is twice repeated in the close of both the Verses The Dead were Judged out of these things which were Written in the Books and they were Judged every Man according to their Works Fourthly After these I cannot pass by that of Heb. 6. 10. God is not Vnrighteous to forget your Work and Labour of Love in Ministring to the Saints For our encouragment in well doing the Apostle directs us to cast our Eyes on the recompence of reward which shall attend good and charitable Men at last and secures us in this that Righteousness

Shame and Torment of the Hot Iron how the principal Actor in the Crime comes to have a share he will immediately by his woful Experience resolve the Question viz. by the scandalous Stigma in his Hand or Cheek which to his Anguish he has felt and to his Disgrace must retain In short Ask the Man in the Cart tyed with the fatal Halter and just ready to be turn'd over how the first and chief Contriver of the Offence for which he is condemned is brought to suffer and he can give thee no other Answer The Soul is a Spiritual Intellectual Invisible Being no way subject to the Pleasure or Jurisdiction of any Power on Earth 't is no way capable of the Preferment of a Palace nor of the Confinement of a Prison but above and out of the Reach of both and can have no Colour of pretence to any Rewards or Punishments whatsoever at present excepting those before mentioned but in Conjunction with and by the Mediation of the Body In Conclusion our Answer here is 'T is neither the one nor the other in a divided or separate Sense that has a Claim or Title to Rewards or Punishments here 't is the Compositum the Soul and Body in Vnion and Conjunction together i.e. 't is the Man that can challenge this And as for an Answer to the Objection with reference to the Body after the Resurrection which is the main Subject of the present Discourse if the Body be not capable of Rewards or Punishments I would fain have the Learned Dr. to tell me what doth the Body of the Saint in Heaven or what makes the Body of the Reprobate in Hell Sure I am because so taught by Christ himself as two Evangelists have recorded it Matt. 10. 28. Luc. 12. 4. That Men are able to kill the Body and God is able to destroy both Body and Soul Now you cannot be said with any Congruity of Speech to kill that which has no Sense no Life and what is liable to be destroy'd in Hell-fire must be allow'd capable of Punishment and by unavoidable Consequence of Sin whereof this is the Wages In short this sacred Authority lays the Axe to the Root of the two first Objections and fells them to the Ground If the Body can be kill'd can be destroy'd in Hell-fire it cannot be deny'd to be sensible capable of sinning of doing well of Rewards and Punishments All these are manifestly imply'd here CHAP. VIII THat our Bodies are more than Instruments only is a Truth that clearly shines forth from the Make and Creation of them Man was brought into the World last of all and therefore must be acknowledg'd the most perfect and compleat of all the Creatures He is upon this account called by the Philosophers the Microcosm the Little World the Epitome of the Greater And tho' the Fabrick of all others tho' never so mean must be own'd to be stupendous yet there is certainly somewhat in Humane Bodies surpassing and transcendent if not in the Matter yet in the Manner and Figure of ' em The Consultation of the Eternal Trinity about this Affair imports somewhat singular a Product more than ordinary Come Let us make man Gen. 1. 26. the Prince the Emperor of all the rest This is taught us in that passage of Elihu in Job 33. 4. The spirit of God hath made me and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life The Expression elegantly notes the Exactness of his Frame Man is the Master-piece of the Creation as his immortal Commentator Caryl has observ'd Our Bodies are Temples built and Temples sanctify'd A living Man Genes 2. 7. Man became a living Soul And upon this account the Royal Psalmist breaks forth into this sublime Rapture Psal 139. 14. I will praise thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made marvellous are thy Works and that my Soul knoweth right well My substance was not hid from thee though I were made in secret and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth Thine Eyes did see my substance yet being imperfect and in thy Book were all my members written which day by day were fashioned when as yet there were none of them The Fabrick of Man is of all other the most exquisite This the Great Mrster of Physick has professedly asserted in a most Admirable Treatise of 17 Books which Gassendus thinks was penn'd with a Spirit of Enthusiasm for the Refutation of the Atheistical Doctrines of Epicurus and the Mirrour of of Learning Orig. Sacr. lib. 3. cap. 1. calls it the Hundred and nineteenth Psalm in Philosophy or A perpetual Hymn in Praise of the Great Creator a just Commentary on the former Passage of the Psalmist The whole Work is a full and pregnant Demonstration of a Deity to which end 't is apply'd by that incomparable Prelate who thereupon thinks it strange that Physicians of all Men should be Atheists who from the Subject of their Science have powerful Arguments to the contrary When we shall consider the admirable Contrivance of Man's Body the curious Formation of all its Parts in order to the various Designs Services and Uses of 'em its astonishing and innumerable Excellencies methinks we should account them more than barely Instruments The Philosophers and Divines have entertain'd Nobler Sentiments of it They have proclaim'd it aloud to be the One half of that finishing Piece which came last out of the Almighty's hands the One half of him for whose sake and service all others were made the One half of him who had the Dignity to be Lord over all who by his Frame Endowments and Advantages is directed to devote and conseerate his Whole Self all that he has or is to the Honour and Glory of his bountiful Master 2. But if this Consideration will not do let us for a while contemplate the Assumption the Incarnation of our Blessed Saviour He took such a Nature as ours such a Body as ours with all its Organical Parts To this purpose he stoop'd to Bethlehem to the Womb of a poor Virgin to the Stable and the Manger To this purpose He that was in the form of God and thought it not robbery to be equal with God made himself of no Reputation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 emptied himself disrob'd himself of his Divine Dignity and took upon him the Form of a servant and was made in the likeness of man St. John tells us John 1. 14. That the Eternal Word that was in the beginning and created all things was made flesh and dwelt among us And the Author to the Hebrews chap. 2. 16. gives us a Confirmation of it with an Asseveration Verily he took not on him the nature of Angels but the seed of Abraham i.e. He was an entire Man like any of us sin only excepted Nay what is more that very Body which he assum'd in which he lived and in which he was crucified is ascended up into Heaven where he sitteth at the Right hand of God and by the