EXTRACT III.
Resurrection of the Body.
"The body returns to the dust,—to the bosom of its mother earth, and there it lies in eternal quiet—and it is not accountable to God; for it is not in bones to think, or flesh to reason." p. 57.
What saith the Holy Spirit by the Scripture?
| "And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many." Matt. xxvii. 52, 53.
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. Marvel not at this; for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation."—John, v. 25, 28, 29. "Many of them that sleep in the dust of the |
earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt." Dan. xii. 2.
"If we believe that Jesus died, and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him." 1 Thes. iv. 14. "How say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen.—And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.—But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be |
