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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35344	A sermon preached to the honourable Society of Lincolns-Inne by R. Cudsworth ...	Cudworth, Ralph, 1617-1688.	1664 (1664)	Wing C7470; ESTC R38833	29,413	70

meaning of the Resurrection of the Body is nothing else but this to persuade Vulgar people that though they seem to perish when they die and their Bodies rot in the Grave yet notwithstanding they shall have a real Subsistence after Death by which they shall be made capable either of future Happiness or Misery But because the apprehensions of the Vulgar are so gross that the Permanency or Immortality of the Soul is too subtile a Notion for them who commonly count their Bodies for Themselves and cannot conceive how they should have any Being after Death unless their very Bodies should be raised up again therefore by way of Condescension to vulgar Understandings the future Permanency and Subsistence of the Soul in Prophetical Writings is expressed under this Scheme of the Resurrection of the Body which yet is meant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 onely and not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which conceit how well soever it may befit a Mahumetan Philosopher I am sure it no way agrees with the Principles of Christianity The Scripture here and elsewhere assuring us that the Resurrection of the Body is to be understood plainly and without a Figure and that the Saints departed this life in the Faith and Fear of Christ shall not be mere Souls without Bodies to all Eternity as Avicen Maimonides and other Philosophers dreamed but consist of Soul and Body united together Which Bodies though as the Doctrine of the Church instructeth us they shall be both Specifically and Numerically the same with what they were here yet notwithstanding the Scripture tells us they shall be so changed and altered in respect of their Qualities and Conditions that in that sense they shall not be the same V. 36 37. Thou fool that which thou sowest is not quickned except it die Thou sowest not that Body that shall be but bare grain it may chance of Wheat or of some other grain but God giveth it a Body as it pleaseth him and to every seed his own Body The Apostle here imitating the manner of the Jews who as appeareth from the Talmud were wont familiarly to illustrate the business of the Resurrection of the Body by the Similitude of Seed sown into the Ground and springing up again Accordingly he goes on It is sown in Corruption it is raised in Incorruption sown in dishonour it is raised in glory sown in weakness raised in power sown a Natural Body raised a Spiritual Body Which Epithet was used also in this case both by the Philosophers and the Jews for Hierocles upon the Golden Verses calls them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vehicula Spiritualia Spiritual Bodies and R. Menachem from the ancient Cabbalists 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Spiritual Clothing Lastly the Apostle concludes thus Now this I say Brethren that Flesh and Bloud cannot inherit the Kingdome of God neither doth Corruption inherit Incorruption For which cause he tells us elsewhere that they which do not die must of necessity be changed And indeed if men should be restored after death to such gross foul and cadaverous Bodies as these are here upon Earth which is the very Region of Death and Mortality without any change at all what would this be else but as Plotinus the Philosopher against the Gnosticks writes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be raised up to a Second Sleep or to be entombed again in living Sepulchres For the corruptible Body presseth down the Soul and the earthly Tabernacle weigheth down the Mind that 〈…〉 seth upon many things Wisedome 9. 15. Wherefore we must needs explode that old Jewish conceit commonly entertained amongst the Rabbinical Writers to this day That the future Resurrection is to be understood of such Gross and Corruptible Bodies as these are here upon Earth to eat drink marry and be given in marriage and which must needs follow afterward to die again Nachmanides in his Shaar Haggemul is the onely Jewish Author that ventures to depart from the common rode here and to abandon this Popular Error of the Jews endeavouring to prove that the Bodies of the Just after the Resurrection shall not eat and drink but be Glorified Bodies but Abravanel confutes him with no other Argument then this That this was the Doctrine and Opinion of the Christians Let us therefore now consider how abundantly God hath provided for us by Jesus Christ both in respect of our Souls and of our Bodies Our Souls in freeing us by the Spirit of Christ if we be not wanting to our selves from the Slavery of Sin and the Bondage of the Law as it is a Letter onely Our Bodies in that this Corruptible shall put on Incorruption and this Mortal Immortality and that these Vile Bodies shall be made like to Christ's glorious Body In both which the compleat Salvation of Man consisteth the Perfection and Happiness both of Soul and Body For though our Salvation consist chiefly in the former in the Victory over Sin and in the Renovation of the Mind yet without the latter which is the Victory over Death and the immortalizing of our Bodies it would be a very lame and imperfect thing For Righteousness alone if it should malè habitare dwell alwaies in such inconvenient houses as these earthly Tabernacles are however the high-flown Stoick may bragg it could not render our condition otherwise then troublesome sollicitous and calamitous Wherefore the Holy men in Scripture not without cause longed for this future Change Rom. 8. 23. We grone within our selves waiting for the Adoption to wit the Redemption of our Bodies 2 Cor. 5. 2. In this we grone earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from Heaven But there is no obtaining of this future Victory over Death and Mortality except we first get a Victory over Sin here For this is that Crown of Life that Christ the First-begotten from the dead will set upon the Heads of none but those that have here fought a good Fight and overcome For as Death proceeds onely from Sin and Disobedience so the way to conquer Death and to arrive at Life and Immortality is by seeking after an inward Conquest over Sin For Righteousness is immortal Wisd. 1. 15. and will immortalize the entertainers of it and as the Chaldee Oracle speaks ' 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 HAving hitherto shewed what are the great things we hope for by Christ and are to endeavour after namely to procure an Inward and Real Victory over Sin by the Spirit of Christ that so we may hereafter attain a Victory over Death and Mortality We cannot but take notice briefly of some Errors of those that either pretending the Impossibility of this Inward Victory over Sin or else hypocritically declining the Combate make up a certain Religion to themselves out of other things which are either Impertinent and nothing to the purpose or else Evil and noxious For first Some as was intimated before make to themselves a mere phantastical and imaginary Religion conceiting