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soul_n	angel_n	body_n	spirit_n	8,316	5	5.4481	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67406	The resurrection asserted in a sermon preached to the University of Oxford on Easter-day, 1679 / by John Wallis ...	Wallis, John, 1616-1703.	1679 (1679)	Wing W602; ESTC R18038	24,852	41

survives the Body For though the Souls Immortality do not necessarily infer the Resurrection of the Body many of the Heathens admitting the one who never thought of the other Yet to the Sadduces it was a good Argument who did not deny the Consequence of it but the Antecedent He lays therefore the Ax to the Root of the Tree and strikes at the Foundation of their Opinion For the Ground of their Opinion concerning the Resurrection was because they held There is neither Angel nor Spirit being of a like opinion with a late Writer of ours That whatsoever is is Body and that an Incorporeal Substance is a like Solecism as an Incorporeal Body and consequent hereunto they held That there is no Resurrection Whereas had they been convinced of the Souls Separate Existence that ●f its Re-union would as easily have passed with them as with the Pharisees Both admitting That they were to Stand or Fall together When St. Paul was arguing the same Point before Agrippa Act. 26. He could not take the same measures as when he was disputing with the Jews He could not as to him take for granted and conclude peremptorily from the Authority of the Old Testament Which Agrippa did not Beleeve or at lest not Profess so to do And what St. Paul there says King Agrippa believest thou the Prophets I know thou beleevest I ●ake to be rather a Rhetorical Insinuation than a direct Assertion The first step he could there make was but to shew it Possible Why should it be thought a thing Incredible that God should Raise the Dead That God who at first made Man out of the Dust of the Earth should out of the same Dust Recover a Body which once had been And if not Impossible it need not to him seem strange that it should be Defended who though not a professed Jew was yet expert in all the Customes and Questions amongst the Jews and could not but know This to be no New Doctrine but what their Twelve Tribes instantly serving God day and night were in expectation of as a Promise made to their Fathers And therefore at lest by them he was unworthily A●cused for it That there might be somewhat of Surprise in i● to King Agrippa as to the Person He doth admitt For so it was to himself at first Who verily thought with himself that he ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus and accordingly did so Till by an unexpected Vision from God as he was going to Damascus with a Commission to Persecute those who thus Taught he was directed to Preach what he did before Persecute Which he did accordingly Witnessing both to small and great what Moses and the Prophets had before said should come to pass That Christ was to Suffer and to be the first that should Rise from the Dead So that What by Agrippa was not to be thought Impossible should not by the Jews be thought Vntrue nor he by them be Persecuted for it Which was said with so much evidence to King Agrippa well acquainted with the Jewish Doctrine though to Festus who knew it not it seemed Madness And the matter of Fact which had then happened being at that time so Notorious as that it could not in reason be denied for I am perswaded saies he to Festus that none of these things are hidden from King Agrippa for this thing was not done in a Corner That Agrippa professeth himself almost perswaded to be a Christian The matter of Fact being so Evident and the Argument so Convincing In the Chapter before us we have our Apostle from other Grounds arguing the same Point with Christians at Corinth Not as if the whole Church of Corinth did disbeleeve the Resurrection But onely Some amongst them How say Some amongst you that there is no Resurrection Nor did they so much doubt of the Resurrection of Christ which seems to have been then a thing so notorious as not to be called in question as of Our Resurrection pursuant of it Which it seems they did either directly Deny or did otherwise Elude by putting some Allegorical sense up ●n it Like that of Hymeneus and Philetus who said That the Resurrection was already past As if we were to expect no other Resurrection than such as the Apostle speakes of Col. 3. If yee be Risen with Christ seek those things that are above That is A Dying to Sin and Living again to Righteousness or Newness of Life 'T is much I confess that Any who professed them selves Christians should be found to Deny so Important an Article of the Christian Faith as is that of the Resurrection But it will appear lesse Strange in those who from Gentilism not from Judaism were lately converted to the Christian Faith which was then but New in comparison of what now it is If we consider That in our own days when Christianity hath been planted and spread throughout the World for more than Sixteen Hundred years we find those who retaining to themselves the name of Christians do yet leave no stone unturned to Undermine and as much as in them lies to Overthrow the most Fundamental Points of Christianity even the Divinity of Christ and his Satisfaction to Gods Justice for the sins of Men on which Hindge the whole Doctrine of Christianity depends Others who turne the whole Christian Worship into a kind of Pageantry and ridiculous Gesticulations such as are many Fopperies of the Romish Church more Absurd than those of the more sober Heathens Setting to Sale both Heaven and Purgatory for summes of Money And Bartering not onely for Pardon of sins but for Leave to sin as if of them it had been said My House shall be called an House of Prayer but yee have made it a Den of Theeves And fill their Legends with such Ridiculous Stories as would tempt a modest Heathen rather to reject the Trueths of Christ than to admit such Fooleries And in the mean time make no scruple of Murders and Massacres of Treasons and Rebellions of Assassinating Princes subverting Governments and turning the World upside down to propagate their Devises Which we can hardly have so much Charity as to think that themselves do seriously Beleeve Others who make but Rallery of the most serious things in Christianity of Heaven and Hell and the Day of Judgement of the Souls Immortality of the very Being and Providence of God himself As if they were but one degree above the Beasts that perish or rather a degree Below them But we need not wonder That the Devil should have Impudence and Wiles inough to turn himself into as many Disguises for the Interest of Hell as a Jesuite for that of Rome 'T is therefore the less strange that Some of these New Christians should at Corinth Doubt of the Resurrection Now of these Christians who so Doubted we are next to consider What