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A27234 The doctrine of a general resurrection wherein the identity of the rising body is asserted against the Socinians and scepticks : in a sermon preach'd before the University at St. Mary's in Oxford, on Easter-Monday, Apr. 5 / by Tho. Beconsall ... Becconsall, Thomas, d. 1709. 1697 (1697) Wing B1656; ESTC R1506 19,938 35

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from the Dead the Members that are united to him by a spiritual vital Principle his holy Spirit shall certainly be raised for He that raised Christ from the dead shall also quicken our mortal Bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in us Rom. 8.11 Again Christ is expresly styl'd The first-fruits of our Resurrection And as the First-fruits offered to God consecrated or blessed the whole Lump so this First-fruit having purchased to himself a vital Principle by fulfilling the Divine Compact it will be convey'd to all those that have an interest in him so that the Resurrection of the Just or Faithful is in a spiritual Sence or the way of Grace derived from that of our Saviour as absolutely as Light or Warmth from the Sun in the way of Nature But then here 's the Foundation of the Miscarriages of our Adversaries the Rock which they carelesly split upon For since they are not able to discern any such Connexion between the Resurrection of our Saviour and that of the Wicked they are apt to imagine he can have no just Right or Title to it and consequently there 's no real Foundation for it But the Mistake is extremely obvious For as our blessed Saviour became a Mediator between God and Man and this Mediation in the original Design of it extends to all the Sons and Daughters of Adam he challenges an unquestionable Right of Dominion over the whole Species upon the Performance or Execution of it For to this end Christ both died and rose and revived that he might be Lord both of the dead and living Rom. 14.9 This is so clear that it extends even to Heathens and Unbelievers for by virtue of it he becomes their proper Judge and as he 's their Judge he can rightfully summon 'em from their very Graves in their proper Bodies or Persons And therefore he hath an uncontroulable Authority to rouze even once the most potent Sinner and oblige him to account for his Actions with those Eyes and Hands and Heart that so grosly dishonour'd him And since in the distribution of Rewards and Punishments he has signified a special regard to the Body as well as Soul we might without St. Paul's express Declaration conclude That there shall be a Resurrection both of the just and unjust Act. 24.15 It is true they move upon a different Foundation the first is an Act of infinite Grace and Mercy an Act that carries the most joyful Invitations in it for its the glorious Consummation of Christ's Espousals with his Church but the second an Act of sovereign Power and Justice and implies a kind of forcible Entry on the Tombs of the Wicked who shall be haled forth to receive the Sentence of Disobedience in a personal and bodily Appearance And thus much for the Extent of the Resurrection I proceed to examine the Second General which respects the Manner of it and 't is That we shall all be raised in our own proper Bodies And for the clearing of this Argument I shall first evince it from the Nature of the Thing from Scripture and Antiquity And for as much as the Resurrection of our own proper Bodies will appear from these Authorities I shall in the Second Place endeavour to state the Nature of Humane Identity and consequently the Identity of our rising Bodies and from both these conclude what is proper to be Believ'd and make some returns to the Possibility of such a Resurrection And First That we shall All be raised in our own proper Bodies This is a Position which the Socinians unanimously reject It s true Schlictingius places humane Identity purely in the Identity of a Rational Spiritual Soul and tho' he doth not expresly deny the Resurrection of the Body yet he makes the Identity of the Body no way material in the Resurrection See Comment on Rom. 8. v. 11. As for the Nature of humane Identity I shall speak to it in its proper place and therefore I shall prosecute my present Design and prove that the Christian Faith is We shall be raised every one in his own proper Body And first this is indisputably evident from the very Notion of a Resurrection and the receiv'd use of the Word Now certainly a Resurrection is the restoring a dead Creature to its former State of Life by a Re-union of its first Principles The constituent Principles of a Man are a Soul and a Body and Death primarily consists in the Separation of 'em or rather as Death is the Fore-runner of Corruption in the Dissolution of one or both of 'em If therefore Lazarus or any other Person is to be raised again those Two numerical Principles of which he was originally compounded must be united and then and not till then is Lazarus raised from the Dead The Notion sufficiently discovers it self in the Case of Lazarus and our Blessed Saviour where the Body was not dissolved and the same is absolutely required where the corruptible Principle is actually dissolved Man is certainly compounded of a corruptible and incorruptible Principle the incorruptible Principle cannot suffer Death or Dissolution and therefore Men are chiefly said to be Dead in respect of their corruptible Principle that usually suffers Corruption certainly then if any particular Person is to be raised from the Dead that Principle which properly dies and is corrupted is to be restored to its former State and united to the incorruptible Principle without which there can be no Resurrection For if the corruptible Principle which properly dies and is dissolved is not restored but a new one formed or created in the room of it and united to the incorruptible Principle it may be properly esteemed a new Production but by no means a proper Resurrection and to assert the contrary is to confound received Terms as well as Notions In a word when a new Body is formed out of the common Mass of Matter and united to the Soul of any particular Person it s in reality no more but the Pythagorean Transmigration which tho' perform'd after a new manner yet by no greater a share of Divine influence than that which gives a plastick Power to form a Body in the Womb and unites a particular Soul to it Shall the Socinians then those pretending Masters of Reason call this a Resurrection This is to obtrude a Notion contrary to the sence of Mankind when the great Argument for rejecting the true Resurrection is because they cannot reconcile it to their scanty Measures of Reason But that what hath been hitherto asserted was the true Notion of a Resurrection not only the Testimony of Scripture and Christian Antiquity but the joint Suffrage of the Learned Heathens abundantly assures us For it was on this account the Doctrine of the Resurrection was loaded with so much Contempt and Scorn when they considered so many various Transmigrations of Matter they esteemed it impossible for Omnipotence it self to range every Particle into its own peculiar Place and Order so as to restore and make up