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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43071	A sermon preached at St. Olave Southwark, September the 8th, 1700 occasioned by the recantation of Dr. Joh. Spire, lately a Quaker : which said recantation is added at the end / by John Haslewood ...	Haslewood, John, b. 1647.; Spire, John. Oration at the parish-church of St. Olave-Southwark.	1700 (1700)	Wing H1132; ESTC R14553	11,771	28

how then say the Quakers that there is no Resurrection And yet a Ring-leader among them hath no less proudly then ignorantly given out That if the complete happiness of the Soul rests in a re-union to a carnal Body for such it is sown then must we never cry out upon the Turks Alcoran for such a Heaven and the joys of it suit admirably well with such a Resurrection (b) Penn's Reason against Railing Pag. 138. But this is evidently neither more nor less than to set up a piece of foppery of his own that he may have the pleasure and credit of beating it down for certainly never any Christian affirmed that the Body should be raised to a life of sensuality that revelling and junketting were the joys of Heaven But this all that pretend to any love and honour for the Gospel have unanimously agreed upon that at the Resurrection the Body shall be the same as to its substance but very different as to its qualities it is sown in corruption it is raised in incorruption it is sown a natural body it is raised a spiritual body But it is unconceivable by this profound Logician how a thing should be the same and yet notwithstanding that be changed as if there were any the least absurdity in saying that a Man might be the same and not the same in divers respects may he not be changed from weak to strong from proud to humble from sickly to healthful and yet be still the same Person When the Jews saw the Man out of whom the Devils were cast sitting at Jesus Feet cloathed and in his right mind they made no doubt notwithstanding this wonderful change that had been wrought in him but that he was the same Man that was possessed before I have not insisted so long upon this Objection for any strength that I perceived in it but for the sake of the Article itself which is the powerfullest motive to a good life as all People must own that will not take upon them to be wiser than God So that to deny the Resurrection is to cut the very Sinews of Piety and cast a worser shade than that of Death upon the Primitive Martyrs who doubtless would never have endured their sharp afflictions with that unimitable courage and constancy if it had not been for the joy that was set before them nor born those marks of the Lord Jesus in their Bodies if they had not looked upon the scars of their stripes and hurts as so many signs that they belonged to Christ and that in due time he would seize upon them as his own peculiar So the Author to the Hebrews saith expresly that some were tortured not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better Resurrection But nothing but the certainty that this Article hath been denied could make one think it possible that it should since it is so directly repugnant to several Passages in Scripture particularly to the second Verse of the Twelfth Chapter of Daniel Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt and so likewise to that Passage in St. John's Gospel Chap. 5. The hour is coming in the which all that are in the 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 Now certainly when the Prophet speaks of them that sleep in the dust of the Earth and the Evangelist of them that are in the Graves neither of them thought of the Souls being in that condition and therefore if any thing be waked out of sleep or come forth of the Grave it must be the Body which is so clear that I defye these Sectaries with all their little shifts and base arts of corrupting Scripture to evade the force of these Texts and use them as they have done several others i. e. make them vanish into the Clouds and thick darkness of unintelligible allegories Whosoever he be that professeth any reverence for the Scripture and yet doubts of the Resurrection all that I would desire of him is to peruse the Fifteenth Chapter of the first Epistle to the Corinthians with seriousness and impartiality and then let him speak his mind It is most certain at Christ's second Advent when he shall judge the World in righteousness and minister true judgment unto all People there will be a re-union of Soul and Body and then fiery indignation shall be poured out upon the Adversaries but Mercy and Loving-kindness upon all those that have kept the commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus Rev. 14.12 St. John tells us that he heard a voice from Heaven saying write from henceforth blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord for they rest from their labours are unmolested with the impertinence and malice the folly and hypocrisie the rage and perfidiousness of busie false and vexatious Mortals but this is by far the least part of their felicity for after a short sleep in their Graves they shall awake up to Glory and always have such a transcendently delightful object in their view as shall never suffer them to shut their Eyes against it be as the Angels in Heaven not only ready to execute God's Commands but enjoying them too But as for the unbelieving and impenitent Wretch I have no glad tidings to tell him for all his false hopes were built upon the Sands And he who would have been the rock of his Salvation shall then put on only the deafness and hardness of the rock not be moved to the least pity by the most hideous and dismal out-cries but for ever remain inflexible to all complaints and intreaties We are told indeed in Scripture that God justifieth the Ungodly but that Passage must be understood in sensu diviso of such as were Ungodly and not of such as continue in ill-doing for God cannot declare him to be just and righteous who is unjust and unrighteous without impeaching his own Justice and Righteousness It is as certain that grievous Sinners without amendment of life shall never be received into God's favour as it is that by their reformation and renewing of their minds they shall be adopted into the family of his beloved Children Would God punish the imputation of Sin so severely in his innocent and beloved Son in whom he was well pleased and will he pardon the unrepented Iniquities of a stubborn Enemy If he would not spare him that was in his Bosom but pour out his most precious Blood doubtless he will not spare the refractory after such a dreadful and amazing Execution Eternal Life is the gift of God not to be purchased as a due reward of the most holy Conversation But Death is the proper Wages of Sin that which of right belongs to it and without Repentance shall be fully pay'd So that to imagine that God retains an affection to one