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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27162	The Resurrection founded on justice, or, A vindication of this great standing reason assigned by the ancients and modern wherein the objections of the learned Dr. Hody against it, are answered : some opinions of Tertullian about it, examined : the learned doctor's three reasons of the Resurrection, inquired into : and some considerations from reason and Scriptures, laid down for the establishment of it / by N.B. ...	Beare, Nicholas.	1700 (1700)	Wing B1564; ESTC R38679	58,906	162

both The Blind Man takes the Lame Man on his back by whose direction and assistance he is guided to the Trees lifted up to the Fruit and so enabled to take it away whereupon the Master after all their excuses to no purpose gives them their doom Both were joyned in the Sin and Both must share in the Punishment This is the case of the Body and the Soul saith the Jewish Masters The one acts in conjunction with the other one could not Sin without the other and therefore both must stand and fall together And I cannot forbear to add Nec Lex est justior ulla 2. I do affirm this to be the constant profest most solemn reason most often and upon all occasions made use of by most if not all the Fathers without exception The Learned and vastly read Author in his Elaborate Treatise has given us a considerable number of them p. 209. Athenagor as Tertullian Gregory Nazianzen St. Chrysostom Epiphanius Ambrose Theodoret Aenaeas Gazaeus Damascenus Nilus Photius and has cited the places And though I cannot pretend to any degree of the Doctor 's knowledge in the Fathers yet I can easily give him a much larger List and produce the places too but this I industriously avoid because every Common-Place-Book will afford it and because it would be justly liable to Censure and because in the present case 't is altogether needless forasmuch as the Learned Author has liberally granted That all the ancient Greeks and Latins agree in this that God is obliged in justice to reward or punish the Body together with the Soul Nay Origin himself who has set up a different Hypothesis makes use of the same 'T is beside my intention to stuff this small Essay with a multitude of great Names and Quotations In the next place I take leave to say that this is the great and main reason made use of in the present Argument by the Master of the Sentences The Angelical Doctor and the whole Tribe of the Schoolmen as any one that has but look'd into them must acknowledge and the Doctor himself has owned In the last place I affirm this to be the main chief and constant reason urg'd by all Modern Writers Commentators and others not only of our own but other Nations For my part I speak it uprightly I can cast mine Eyes on no Book on the subject but I meet with it and that not among the Scriblers of the lower Rank but amongst the Masters of the Assemblies the most celebrated Authors Men of Renown in their Generations I could easily fill a great deal of Paper here but I shall dismiss this Consideration with one Authority only and that is of the Learned Grotius on Mat. 2. 32. Inter omnia Argumenta quae ad probandam Resurrectionem adhiberi solent c. Amongst all the Arguments which are brought to prove the Resurrection I know none more effectual and proper than that which Clement the Bishop of Rome was wont to urge having received it from St. Peter that if God be just there must be a Resurrection and this Doctrine this great Man approves of and in that place establishes with no mean Authorities Whither not to transcribe I refer the Reader and because he tells us 't was the Doctrine which St. Clement received from St. Peter I could heartily wish that I could find out this passage in St. Clement in order whereunto I must confess I have sought after it and have found it but not to my satisfaction among the Dialogues of St. Peter and Simon Magus the 2d Dialogue which bears the name of St. Clement but no doubt is spurious and therefore not to be insisted on nor recommended however it may bear some consideration that so great a Man as Grotius gives this reason the Right-hand the Priority and Precedency to all others beside we have his word and reputation for it that it was the express Doctrine which the first Bishop of Rome taught his Disciple and Successor and if we were assured that it was thus Delivered down and derived we are bound to believe it notwithstanding all the Quircks and Niceties of Philosophy to the contrary For the great Apostle's Tongue was guided by an Infallible Spirit Upon the whole I take leave to say upon a much better account than Bellarmine did of the Annals of Baronius here 's turris fortium Solomonis a mighty Tower of strong Men which in reason may be thought able to maintain the Argument and secure it Defendit numerus juctaeque umbone Phalanges was thought a strong Allegation in a much lesser Cause Methinks the Authorities of so many Learned Men in all Ages should uphold it and not suffer it to be lost at this time a-day Methinks here the standing Rule of Vincentius Liricensis if any where ought to sway quod semper quod ubique quod ab omnibus what all Men in all Ages at all Times have asserted must stand CHAP. V. BUT the Learned Author in his Treatise of the Resurrection has been pleased to lay it aside and having paid his Respect and Deference to the ancient Fathers the avowed Patriots of it He immediately Censures and Condemns it in the words following Pag. 210. If we seriously and impartially consider this Assertion we shall find it not to be true and he gives us those Reasons for it 1st To speak properly the Body is not capable either of Sinning or doing Well it is only the instrument of the Soul and the Arm that stabs sins no more than the Sword 't is the Soul only that is the Murderer Neither 2dly Is the Body capable of Rewards or Punishments 't is the Soul that is sensible Nothing but what is sensible only can be capable of Rewards and Punishments 3dly If it be injustice in God to Punish the Soul alone without the Body in Conjunction with which she committed the Sin then all the Matter which constituted the Body when the several Sins were committed must be raised again and reunited to the Soul for if some why not all But what Monsters of Men should we be in the Resurrection if all the substance of which our Bodies consisted from our Childhood to our Death should be gathered together and formed into a Body This is the Sum of the Charge which the Learned Doctor has to lay against the Doctrine which has been allow'd of by all and is the Attempt of this Paper to cover and fecure There are other Passages in the following part of his Discourse which shall be accounted for in their proper place And here I take it for granted that there are no other difficulties that lie in the way no other Objections at least of any moment against it because they come from so accomplished an Author who must be supposed to have said the most that can be against it Without making any Apology I shall endeavour to give satisfaction to all according to the method in which they lye And First I answer by way