Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1860-03-31
Resurrection Does the Man rise or
The Earthly BodyP
March &c, 1860.
A SHORT ARGUMENT.

Zone Of series of n short tract lately pub
lished in London, written by DR.. Baylcy.l
The man rises. Angels are men who have
risen in spiritual bodies. The three angels who
appeared to Abraham, to represent the Lord,
were men. Gen. xviii. .. The two who ap-
peard to Lot were men. Oh. xix. 10, II. He
who appeared to Manoah and his wife was n
man Judges xiii. ell. The angel Gabriel
that appeared to Daniel was n man. All the
great multitude which John saw, and which
no man could number, of all nations and kin
dreds, and people and tongues, stood before
the throne and before the Lamb, were clothed
with white robes and palms in their hands,
Rev. viii o. How could they be clothed with
white robes unless they had heavenly bodies,
and how could they have palms in their hands,
il they had neither hands, arms, nor forms r
Yet these were risen men. They had all come
through much tribulation, and had "washed
their robes and made them white in the blood
ofthe Lamb The angel who showed John
the wonderful things he saw, and who had so
glorious form that John was abontto worship
him, said "See thou do it not; for am thy fell
low-scrvant and of thy brethren the prophets,
and of them which keep the sayings OF this
book; worship Cod Rev. xxi. o. Death, when
it comes in an orderly way, is not from SIM
The death that made these men angels was
not from sin. When man is in order, it is
holy privilege to die and enter Heaven.
Why then should we hesitate to beleycwh at
our Lord Jesus and his apostles taught-that
resurrection is going through, at death, what
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had gone through?
GAS touching the Resurrection of the dead,
have We not read that which was spoken unto
you by God, saying, am the Code Abraham,
and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacb?-
God is not the God of the dead, but of tue liv-.
inp.n Mat xxi, 81, 80. GAN live to Him.
Luke Xxx. SO. The thief rose the day he was
crucfed. Luke xiii, 43. The rich man and
Lazarus rose while the rich mans brethren
were still in the world, and both had bodies;
one went to heaven, the other to hell. Luke
xvi. 20, 23, %.
All these had bodies fitted for the world in
which they live, and whichis notfa of, though
unseen by earthly eyes. The apostle says "There
are celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial
Cor XIV. 40. "There is q natural body, and
there is a spiritual body" Think of the Di-
vine words of our Saviour to Martha, and cast
away the Jewish notion which Martha express
sed, and which the Jews had learned at Baby
Ion, Jesus said unto her, ~ am the resurrec-
ton, and the life. He that belieyeth III me,
though he were dead, yet shall he live, and
whatsoever lveth and bclieveth in me, shall
never die Believest thou this (? Believe IL,
Christian friend and live upon it, and you will
the apostle, "For we know that if our earthly
house of this tabernacle 1.-THE earthly body
were dissolved, we have building of God,
1.-THE heavenly body house not made with
hands, eternal mot for time) in the heavens
2 Cor. " l.
The Christian never dies; he appears to men
TO die butnot so to angels. To them he rises
in his spiritual body. "For me to live is Thirst
but to die is gain Phil. i. 81. The Tristan
rises in his spiritual body now in all thu bcau-
ty which the New Birth has given him--the
beauty Of truth and goodness Christ in him
has subdued all things to himself, and has
transformed the vile body of his sinful nature
into the likeness of his glorious body. Come
| forth, o Christian, and rise from the death OF
sin to the life of righteousness. Pray with the
| Apostle off by any means may attain TO the
resurrection Of the dead" Phil. iii. IL. At
tain to that, and when you die, your spiritual
body will shine with angelic beauty. fon VIII
then not need the earthly covering and so il
| will not be raised again.
| Thus saith the Scripture.-"lIan lieth down
and riseth not till theheavens be no more; they
shall not awake, nor be raised out of theii
sleep.n Job xiv IL, GAS the cloud is consum
ed and vanished away, so he that goeth down
to the grave shall come up no more JOB va
0. Man goes, and does not come back for hi
body. "Beforc go whence shall not return
even to the land of darkness and the shadow
of DEATH Job X. 20. "When few years are
come, then shall go the way whence shall
not RETURN Job xvi. 90. " But some man viii
say, How are the dead raised up? Thou fool
that which thou sowest is not quickened, cx-
cept it die; and that which thou sowest, thol
sowest not that body which shall be-" Cor
XIV. 35-37. "Now this | say, brethren, tina
flesh and blood can not inherit the kingdom Q
God; neither doth corruption inherit incorrup
ton" Cor. XIV. so.
God never intended the material body for
spiritual world. Hence it is no two days til
same body 1t changes every hour. We hav
dozen bodies duringlife Whatrelation doe
the sinful leg shot OF a sinful body on the feel
: of battle hold to the body of man who re
pented twenty years after; but has put off tw
or three bodies between The same matte
!, has become-tSrough its forming, partof fishe
, and vegetables, again eaten by men--perhaT
mart OF fifty different mems bodies; to whic