Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1851-03-20
SCENES IN THE RESURRECTION.

LIE Oodies o. men die, pass into their
graves, and are sown there in corruption,
in dishonor, in weakness, natural bodies
but the same bodies are to be raised incorr
ruptible, immortal, and if the bodies ofth
saints, in glory and power, resembling
Christ's glorified body. The bodies we
now have by nature are natural, corrupti-
bic and dying but the bodies which we
shall have, by the power Of the Spirit of
God in restoring our dead bodies to life,
will be immortal, and subject to some new
laws Of existence and action, and there
fore may be called spiritual bodies
Christ's body before death was natural
body, which died in weakness, and is now
a spiritual body having attributes resem-
bling those which belong 10 purely spirit
ual beings. .as..r-.s .s.r r.n =. ,,..az,
On the mount, before his death, in the
presence Of three of his apostles, the body
Of Jesus was transfgured, SO that his face
shone as the sun, and his "raiment was
white as the light" but this transfgura-
ton did not destroy the identity OF his
body, any more than his walking on the
waters Of the sea of Galilee. When
Christ pleased, he ronished from the pre-
sence Of his disciples and yet it was areal
body which ranished, for afterwards he
affirmed that he had flesh and bones. In
like manner, the bodies Of all men after
their resurrection will be changed bodies,
and subject to some new laws Of life and
action; but every man will have his own
bodily form; and the saints may resemble
in appearance the Sayiour's body on the
mount Of TRANSPORTATION, and yet be as
easily distinguished and recognized as be-
fore death. No one who ever knew the
two on earth will mistake Paul for Peter,
or John Knox for Martin Luther, or
Dorcas for the mother of Jesus.
He who died little child will not be
raised to life man Of many years. and
she who died venerable matron will not
be resuscitated in the form of youthful
virgin. After the resurrection Of the
body, Paul and Apollos, Cephas and
Caesar and Nero, will be the same different
individuals they once were, and each him.
self forever. Each will have continuity
Of consciousness, conscience, memory and
feeling each viii know who and what he
once was; and each will know that he
lives again, substantially the same man, in
body and mind, that formerly had his
dwelling on earth, and his theatre Of ac-
ton in the circle Of his acquaintance.
When John, saw the great white throne,
and him who sat on it, from whose face
the earth and the heaven fled away; and
there was no place found for them, then
he saw the dead, small and great, stand BE-
I fore God and The books werc opened-and
the dead rsre judged out of those things
uhich ,ccre written in the books, according
| to their .rorks. Some will therefore ap-
pear before God in the judgement in The
forms Of children, and oilers with the
full grown bodies Of adults. do not as.
sert, nor believe, that all the same parti.
cles Of matter which ever entered into the
composition Of a human body on earth will
be found in that body when raised from
the grave; for our bodies now do not con
tain all the atoms of matter Of which they
were composed ten years ago but we ar.
so much the same persons now which W,
were then, that our acquaintance, and ths
law and society recognize, as being ths
same persons. Even so every thing es
sen,ial to our personal identity will be re-
suscitated, and stand before God in tn,
Judgment. The seed which we sow il
the earth is not the same body which shall
be, but naked grain but out Of the sowr
seed the future body is raised up, and II
each seed its own body, which God givetl
a. It hath pleased him. The dead body 0
man sown in corruption is the germ cu
of which the new body, endowed will
some additional spiritual attributes i.
raised. sss aa sse.a ss .a .9ssr. =zr5
Out of the crysalis Of the worm enclos
ed in its own silken sarcophagus, come.
forth the winged insect, formed out of tn.
very matter which crawled in its worn
estate, but which can now rise into the air
and disport itself in the rays Of the sun
and each transformed reptile has its owr
newly formed body subject 10 different
laws Of existence and motion from those
which formerly governed it. The cat
erpillar presents the natural body, and ihe
butterfly what may be called the..spiritua'
body of the same insect. ii ss.... ....
Should we fall asleep tonight in our
beds and tomorrow rise out of them 50
changed, that we could rise and move in
space with the rapidity of thought and
without any obstruction from gravitatior
and the atmosphere, that we could live
without any material sustenence, without
hunger, thirst, sleep, or rest, that we could
walk on the waters and be present in any
enclosed chamber; that we could see
Christ whenever we should desire to see
him; and converse with spirits in any and
every world, l should say, that we had
risen from our beds with spiritual bodies,
and that the change passed upon US would
be like that which shall be experienced by
the dwellers on earth, in the twinkling o!
an eye, when the lasttrumpet shall sound
The considerations which have thus been
suggested, hope and pray, may make u.
all realize, that we are not to be so changed
by death and the resurrection, that we shal
not know and remember ourselves. and be
recognised by those who knew us in the
world. We shall retain our individuality
and personality, and personal identity from
this time henceforth and forever. Johr
Bunyan that was, is now in spirit, ard af
ter the resurrection will be in body ant
spirit, John Bunyan through everlasting
ages. The same | may say Of your pas