Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1852-02-05
LITCHFlELD ENQUIRER
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HITCHFiEI.D, January 81, 1852,
For the Enquirer.
Resurrection.


Z" How are the dead raised upe and
with what body do they Gomez" chat
which tEoa sowest is not quckened, ex-
cept it die" "And thou sowest not
that body that shall be, but bare grain !;
it may chance of wheat, or of some 9th.
or grain: but God giveth it body, and
to every seed his own body."-lst Cor.
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The in6del objections against the pos
sibilisy of resurrection Of the body APP
pear to be fully met by very simple il,
lustration Of the Apostle. drawn from a
simple natural phenomenon. The ''bare"
kernel "of wheat, or of some other grain"
is sown, ''dies," Il. c, decays, pcrshes or
wastes away in giving nouliShment TO
the young plant.) and is found no more.
In the proper season. however, as the
plant arrives at maturity new kernel
| appears, in all essential respects, like the
original that was sown. though contain
ing not particle, perhaps, OF the idsn.
tical material substance that composed
that kernel. At least the quantity must
be exceedingly small, since from one ker.
mel several hundred arc often produced.
"But," says an objector of different
class. "the body that is raised, must be
the same body that dies, or the person
after the resurrection, will not be the
same that he was in this life." Answer.
The Apostle says, Thou so west not tina,
body that shall be.-but God gives it a
body, and to every seed its own body"
i. e. a body like itself-of its own pecu-
liar nature and character, etc. In re.
gard to mot being the same person."
without the same body--let any one at.
tentively contemplate himself--his men.
tai, moral. intellectual - his social and
! physical nature ; the operations of his
mind, his thoughts, affections. passions,
feelings, etc.; and unless ! greatly mis-.
take, he will very soon come to the con.
clusion. that this physical frame which he
calls his body, is not what he means by
hinsseE II is mol his personal SELF For
my own part. / regard this corporeal
| frame which moves and acts ut my bid
ding, as only an instrument, an engine,
which I use in accomplishing my pur.
poses. II is not lit is not myseE. /
will, and 1t executes my bidding. I shall
use II till it is worn out, or becomes vast.
ed by disease. or destroyed by accident
when shall lay it aside, and be free ia
act without incumbrance. Now, it bind.
mo down to earth, limits me to place
trammels all my movements, and Grip.
Piles my energies. I shall soon have
done with it, an then shall regard /,
only as an "old garment" that served
me in It's day. but is now thrown aside a,
useless. Such being the case, have nc
anxiety about it after l shall have done
with it. II may become the food Of
worms. or be scattered By decomp posi-
tion to the four winds end become the
food of plants. and again the food OF
animals, and SO on till the end OF time
yet l shall not BIZ effected thereby.
shall still ive,-and sutfer,--or enjoy
OF this have no more doubt than have
of my present existence. Consciousness
is my vi ness.
"Do you then deny the resurrection
Of the Jody?" Answer. --"It is sown il
corruption, it is raised in il.cor upton.
> 1T is sown a natural body, it is raised
spiritual 5ody.' Tell me what II "spi
iiual body" is, and | will tell you III
8 body, in the resurrection Of which be
. licve. The only flea that we can hav
t Of spiritual body, is derived from reyc
lation, illustrated by science. The an
clients had no conception Of any substance
.. (if indeed they considered it n substance,
more refined than mir. Hence the sam,
word was used by them to denote breath
arine, spirit from the verb 10 breathe.
and when they would speak Of any thing
rs not material (accorling to their ideas
Of ml:ter,) they made use Of one Of thes
terms, and the Saviour used lhe Language
, of the times, as suitable to his purpose
as, "Ihe mind blowe,h where it list I'll.
i "God is a sriri! and they that worsh:
' Him must worship Him in spirit, etc.
But science has revealed to us substan
+ ces more refined than air, and yet mate
rial, { Though what the ancienis woul'
have called "spirituai,') many Of which
now enter into the composition Of the hu
man body. Science also reveals the fac
; that these substances (whatever change
or combinations they may unde,go,) ar
, indestructiblc by any human means. l
: will not be difficult, therefore, for infn
: tie wisdom 10 provide an iulperishabl'
body, answering all the requirements o
.. the ancient (and doubtless the true. ide
, of spiritual body" which shall serv
the purposes of an instrument Of actor
suffering. or enjoyment TO the being no,
inhabiting this wasting tenement, with
out destroying its (that being's) person
al identity. That being will still be him
self. the same identical being. that he wa
in this life, clothed with q spiritual.
indestructible. (and doubtless visibls) DO
dy. II.
i World. Sept. 1851.