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mould; the building constructed of its old materials, 

 though polished and adorned into celestial beauty by a 

 high effort of Deity, and made the fit habitation of an 

 angelic soul. V7ho then can presume to resolve the 

 problem, in what the identity of the resuscitated body 

 will consist ? or to determine whether by certain stami- 

 nal particles (as some have imagined,) or by the reunion 

 of all those particles which were once laid in the grave, 

 this identity will be preserved ? Let it suffice us to 

 believe that to him who annually performs a similar 

 miracle in the growth of every grain that falls from the 

 sower's hand, that to him who fashioned the fair frame 

 of our great primeval mother from a single bone of 

 the first Adam, and who raised the body of the second 

 Adam in all the fulness of its uncorrapted particles, 

 nothing can be impossible. Of far higher consequence 

 will it be for every one to resolve as well as he may, the 

 great practical problem of his own moral and spiritual 

 fitness for the resurrection of the just ; of his own 

 soundness in that faith, whose glorious anticipations 

 bring with them such solemn and weighty responsibili- 

 ties. For as in the natural world, all the seeds which are 

 sown do not spring up, but some rot in the very act 

 of vegetating, so will it be in the final state of man : 



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