Considerations respecting the recognition of friends in another world : on the affirmed descent of Jesus Christ into hell : on phrenology in connexion with the soul : and on the existence of a soul in brutes / by John Redman Coxe.

  • Coxe, John Redman, 1773-1864.
Date:
1845
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    reformation, but should still have been in the gall of bitter- ness, and in the bonds of iniquity. A question occurs here, if the identical body committed to the grave, is that which arises to judgment, whether it is to be punished or rewarded, for deeds done at an anterior state of existence; since it is obvious to ever}' one, that the particles of matter which composed it in the heyday of youth, when sins of most kinds more generally prevail, are not those that constitute it at the age of sixty or seventy-* * If all the particles of matter that at the different periods of life have constituted a portion of our frame should be raised, (and we may ask what greater claim has the last particle deposited over those which constituted the first rudiments of the body, though long since removed, except on the principle that possession is nine points of the law, I cannot well perceive, especially as it may be controverted by another, seniorcs, priores/) then consider what gigantic bodies must appear! I have somewhere seen a calculation of the amount eaten during the life time of an individual, estimated by an equivalent of such a number of sheep; which is made to amount, I think, to four thousand. A goodly amount of mortality to invest the soul! But this is only for a longevity of present times. If we go back to the antediluvians, who lived ten or twelve times as long; the amount will reach to forty or fifty thousand ! Some, however, have supposed, that big or little young or old, all will rise with bodies of about thirty-three years of apparent age; being that of our Saviour at the period of his death, and in the perfect forms of men and women. St. Augustin, who knew as much of this matter as any one, is full authority for this, as well as for some further information he affords us, viz: that Erunt autcm tunc membra fceminea ; non accomodata usui veteri, sed decori novo; quo non alliciatur aspicientis concupiscentia, qua; nulla eril, &c. Our doctors say (Sterne's Koran, p. 118,) that the dead shall rise again with bodies. This notion appears to be an article of faith agreea- ble rather to the doctrine of a Mahometan priest, than a Christian di- vine. It would be unphilosophic to suppose, that flesh and blood shall lose their properties after resurrection.—Many anxious inquirers also seek to know further, whether those parts that are here deemed orna- mental, such as the hair of the head, will rise with the body, inasmuch as it will be so very long; as well as the nails. St. Augustin comforts