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which " has brought life and immortality to light." * They should 

 reflect that the belief of an immaterial substance removes no ima- 

 gined difficulty, as the resurrection will be positively of body, and 

 that therefore our minds will appear as much a property of body 

 hereafter as at present. The sound and excellent Paley, following; 

 Locke who shews in his third letter to Bishop Stillingfleet that the 

 Scriptures do not say our identical bodies (a-a^xra.) will be raised, 

 but merely 01 KExgoJ or warn?, with bodies, draws, in his sermon 

 on the state after death, the following conclusions from various 

 intimations in the New Testament : 



" First, that (at the resurrection) we shall have bodies. 



" 2. That they will be so far different from our present bodies, 

 as to be suited, by that difference, to the state and life into which 

 they are to enter, agreeably to that rule which prevails throughout 

 universal nature, that the body of every being is suited to its 

 state, and that when it changes its state it changes its body. 



Materialist is as good a word as any other to brand those with from whom we 

 differ, hut materialism in its true acceptation signifies the preposterous doctrine 

 of no first cause, that all has been produced ex fortuita atomorum collisione. 

 The whole tenor of Scripture implies that we are bodies endowed with certain 

 properties ; and those passages from which our being a distinct immaterial sub- 

 stance is inferred, may be easily explained by the figurative style of the sacred 

 writings, by the necessary adoption of the language of the times, and by the 

 influence of the national opinions and prejudices of the writers on their mode 

 of expressing divine truths. Without due allowance, we might deem it impious 

 to deny that " the round world cannot be moved ;" that the sun " pursues its 

 course ;" that Naaman's leprosy (a condition of body) was a real substance, and 

 as such clave unto Gehazi ; that Adam surely died on the very day he tasted 

 the forbidden fruit ; that the winds possessed sense when Christ s,iid, Peace, be 

 still ; and that Saul's melancholy and the cases of insanity and epilepsy related 

 in the New Testament were possessions by demons, which are pronounced in 

 another part to be nothing in the world. And on these points I strongly recom- 

 mend the study of the Rev. Hugh Farmer's original and admirable works, espe- 

 cially his Essays on the Demoniacs of the New Testament, and on Christ's 

 Temptation. Without due allowance, what absurdities might be inferred from 

 the use of the word heart ? 

 * 2 Timothy, i. 10. 



