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A44092	The resurrection of the (same) body asserted, from the traditions of the heathens, the ancient Jews, and the primitive church with an answer to the objections brought against it / by Humphry Hody ...	Hody, Humphrey, 1659-1707.	1694 (1694)	Wing H2344; ESTC R9555	117,744	234

Flesh of God the Word in Heaven together with God the Word I shall not here take Notice of the Dialogue against the Marcionites which is extant under Origen's Name in which the Catholick Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Same Humane Body is zealously asserted and maintain'd against those Hereticks I do not take it to be Origen's Yet t is certain that it is very ancient There are some that reckon Origen among the Asserters of the Millennarian Doctrine which Doctrine supposes a Resurrection of a true Humane Body But I think it is a Mistake Quis haec audiens resurrectionem carnis eum negare putet So St. Jerom after those Words of Origen which I but now transcrib'd from him Who would believe that Origen who in so many Places of his Works acknowledges the Resurrection of the Same Humane Body should in others advance quite contrary Notions and Opinions Whatever Pamphilus alledges in his behalf it is too too True that he did so You desire me to give you a particular account of his Opinions relating to the Resurrection Huetius I remember in his Origeniana treats largely of 'em But I have not that Work at present by me You must therefore be contented with what I have to present you of my own In short they are These 1. That in some places of his Works he advances this Opinion That the Body in the Resurrection is made up of new Particles by growing as Corn does out of a Seed I have already shewn In the First Canon of the Council of Trulla it is said that He and his Followers Evagrius and Didymus spoke wickedly and contumeliously of the Resurrection of the Dead Aristinus tells us more particularly that they foolishly said that these very Bodies that we now have are not to rise They denied says the Anonymous Author De Synodis the Resurrection of that Body which now we have They taught says another Anonymous Writer De Synodis That our Bodies are not to rise Epiphanius tells us that the Followers of Origen acknowledg'd the Resurrection of the Dead and of our flesh and of the Body of our Lord the same that was conceiv'd of the Virgin Mary yet they did not own that the same flesh shall rise but that another will be substituted by God in its Place And the same he says was the Opinion of the Hereticks call'd Hieracites that there will be a Resurrection of the flesh but not of this which now we have but another which will be substituted in its Place 2. St. Jerom says that the Followers of Origen when urg'd by the Catholicks would acknowledge the Resurrection not only of the Body but also of the flesh and if they were press'd very hard and were ask'd whether they own'd the Resurrection of this same Flesh which we now have which is seen and touch'd and walks and speaks they would assent even to that too But if they were ask'd whether they own'd that the Body in the Resurrection will have Hands and Feet a Belly Breast Teeth and the other Parts which make up a Humane Body that they denied 3. The same Author tells us that Origen in many places of his Works especially in his IV. Book Concerning the Resurrection and in his Exposition of the First Psalm and in his Stromata denied that the Body will rise with Bones Blood and flesh and such Parts and Members as now we have or with difference of Sexes and affirm'd that it will be Aereal Ethereal intangible and invisible and that whereas we now see with our Eyes hear with our Ears work with our Hands and walk with our Feet we shall then be all Sight all Hearing c. That the Body will be Subtle and Ethereal he asserts in his Comment on St. Matthew And in his Second Book against Celsus we are told that the Body of Christ after his Resurrection was so constituted as to be of a middle Temper between the fineness of the Soul and the grossness it had before his Death St. Maximus likewise observes that in some of his Books 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so I read it as a Manuscript has it not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in one of his Books he made the rising Body to be Ethereal 4. The Account which St. Methodius gives of his Opinion is this He tells us in one place that Origen taught That in the Resurrection we shall have the same species of Body the same Form or Appearance yet it will not consist of the same Matter as our Bodies in old Age retain the same Species yet have not any the same Particles which we had in our Youth In another place he says that Origen in his Comment on the LXV Psalm compared our Bodies to a Bladder full of Water if you let the Water run and keep pouring in new the Bladder retains the same form though the Water be all chang'd so says he it is with the Body in the Resurrection it is not numerically the same Body yet the Form and Figure is the same tho' made more Glorious 5. The same Author adds that according to Origen tho' the Body in the Resurrection retains the same intire Species or form yet it throws off its earthly Qualities and tho' it has the Shape and Figure of a Body of Flesh yet it is not flesh And this says he he proves from that Assertion of St. Paul that Flesh and Blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of Heaven which is spoken only of the Infirmities and Corruptions of Flesh and Blood and from other Texts of that kind 6. The same Author tells us in Photius that Origen made the Body in the Resurrection to consist of Air and Fire 7. From the same and other Authors it appears that he asserted with the Platonists that the Body is no part of the Man but the Soul alone is the whole Man and that the Body is the P●…ison of the Soul into which it is sent by way of punishment for some Sin it had committed in a state of Pre-existence 8. Agreeable to this is that Fansie of his concerning the Creation of our first Parents Adam and Eve That they were created nudae mentes and had not any Bodies 'till after their Fall that then God cloath'd 'em with Bodies by way of Punishment And this he says is meant by that place in Genesis where 't is said that unto Adam and to his Wife did the Lord God make Coats of Skins and cloath'd them By Coats of Skins he understands Bodies 9. In his Books against Celsus he tells us that the reason why the Body is to rise and be united to the Soul is because the Soul cannot move without a Material Vehicle 10. In other places he tells us that the Soul is never without a Material Vehicle and that it is not capable of being rewarded or punish'd but in a Body and that before the Resurrection it is rewarded or punish'd

excited it may be enabled to take to it self fresh Matter and so subdue and fashion it as thence sufficiently to repair or augment it-self This is wholly the Hypothesis of Origen He adds that the Alcalisate Ashes of a certain Plant like our English red Poppy being sown in a Garden has been known to produce certain Plants larger and fairer than any of that Kind that had been seen in those Parts Which seems says he to argue that in the saline and earthy i. e. the fixt Particles of a Vegetable that has been dissipated and destroy'd by the Violence of the Fire there may remain a Plastick Power enabling them to contrive dispos'd Matter so as to re-produce such a Body as was formerly destroy'd However to this Plastick Power residing in any Portion of the destroy'd Body itself he is not willing to have recourse He rather believes that God by his Omnipoten●…e will perform the thing and work up some of the Particles of the deceas'd Body together with the adjacent Matter into a Humane Body And the Body which is so work'd up may be call'd as he tells us the same Body This is not to de●…end the Doctrine of the Resurrection but to give it up to it's Adversaries and to advance another Doctrine instead of it For it is not true that a Body so made up may be call'd the same with that which died How can a Grain of Corn that is grown up be said to be the same with that which was sown I have own'd already that the Identity of our Bodies in this Life does not consist in the Identity of Particles I have granted that our Bodies in our old age are the same with those which we had when Infants or in our Mothers Womb tho they have not in 'em any one Particle the same But I said withall and the same I say here again that it does not therefore follow that the rising Body may be the same with that which was buried tho it have not any or but few of the same Particles The Identity of the Body here in this Life consists in a sit Construction and Organization of successively fleeting Particles of matter The Identity of the Rising Body or it's sameness with that which died can consist in nothing else but in the Restauration of the same Particles of Matter which made up the necessary Parts of the dying Body to their former Construction Another Objection concerning the Difficulty of the Resurrection is this We are told by some that allowing Five or Six Foot deep in Church-yards and Burying-places and One Foot deep in other parts of the Earth where the Particles of Humane Bodies may be supsos'd to have been drop'd and scatter'd by the Wind there will hardly be fit Matter enough in the whole Surface of the Earth to make up so many Humane Bodies as there have been and will be in the World Should I shew that here in England alone which is but a very small Part of the Globe of the Earth if you go but One single Foot deep there is as much Substance as would make up all the Bodies of Mankind that ever were or ever will be tho' the World should last in all 10000 Years should I shew thus much I suppose it would be granted that the weakness of this Objection would be sufficiently expos'd I shall not only undertake to prove that but I shall undertake to demonstrate that in less than the 17th Part of the Kingdom which is much less than the biggest of our Counties there is more than enough to do it I demonstrate it thus 1. It appears by the best Calculations that there are in England about Forty Millions of Acres In every Acre there are 43560 square Feet There are therefore in the whole Kingdom about 1742400000000 Square Feet 2. It s suppos'd by the most Judicious that in all the World there may be living at one time old and young about Three Hundred Millions of People It appears by the Weekly Bills that there are born and die every Year about the Thirtieth Part of Mankind Therefore Thirty Years must be allow'd for one Age. Now if we multiply Three Hundred Millions by as many Thirties as are contain'd in 10000 Years the whole Number of Mankind in 10000 Years will amount to but little more than 99999000000 which is not the Seventeenth Part of the Number of square Feet contain'd in England By allowing three hundred millions one Age with another I have allow'd much more than three hundred Millions to be at this time living in the World For in the first Ages of the World and after the Floud there were but very few 3. A solid Foot of common Earth contains in it Substance more than enough to make up a Humane Body Men Women and Children consider'd one with another For it weighs about Fivescore and Thirteen Pound whereas the weight of an ordinary Man is no more than Ten Stone or Sevenscore Pound If therefore allowance be made for the Bodies of Women who generally weigh much less than Men and for those of Children under Sixteen Years of Age who are half the Number of Mankind Infants under Five Years of Age who weigh but very little are reckon'd one Quarter of Mankind I say if we make this allowance it will plainly appear that the weight of a Humane Body taking one with another is not so great as the weight of a Solid Foot of common Earth It is manifest therefore that in less than the Seventeenth Part of England if you go but One Foot deep there is as much Substance as would make up all the Humane Bodies that ever were are and will be tho' the World should last in all 10000 Years We will give the Objector leave to suppose that the World will last in all 20000 Years and that there are in the World one Age with another Six Hundred Millions of Humane Bodies yet in less than one Quarter of the Kingdom of England there would be within a Foot of the Surface more Earth than would weigh down all I need not here put him in mind that the Sea has devour'd many Millions of Bodies It appears from what has been said that the Resurrection of all the Bodies of Mankind is not impossible And since it is not impossible there is not any difficulty in it For all things that are possible are equally easie to an Omnipotent Agent 'T is an Assertion of Pliny's as has been already observ'd That God himself is not able to raise up a dead Man to Life But whatever he thought of his Gods and whatever were his Notions concerning the Power of the Deity there is no one now can doubt of God's Power and Sufficiency I need not endeavour to demonstrate that he is able to distinguish and to gather together the confus'd and scatter'd Particles of our several Bodies howsoever blended and workt in with other Matter and to range and mould 'em as they were before I need not