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8 corporeal organs, will conſtitute ſome part of the 
happineſs of the Juſt, is a truth with.no leſs certainty | 
deducible, from the terms in which the Holy Scrip- 
ture deſcribe the future life, than that corporal 
ſufferance on the other hand will make a part of the 


” * of the Wicket. 


Indeed, were Holy Writ leſs explicit upon the 
ſubje&, than it is; either propoſition, that the 


Righteous ſhall be corporally bleſſed, and the. _ 


Wicked corporally puniſhed, ſeems a neceſſary and 
immediate inference from the promiſed reſurrection 
of the Body. For to what —.— of God's wiſdom 
or of his juſtice, to what purpoſe of the creature's. 
own exiſtence, ſhould the ſoul either of ſaint or "gp 
ner be re-united to the body, as we are taught in 
Sc ripture t to believe the ſouls of both ſhall be, unleſs. 
the body i is, in ſome way or another, to be the in- 
ſtrument of enjoyment to'the one, and of ſuffering to 
the other? Or how is the union of any mind to any 
hody to be underſtood; without a conſtant ſympathy: 


between the two, by virtue of which: they are reci- 
procally appropriated to each other; in ſuch ſort 


that this, individual mind becomes the ſoul of that 
individual body, and that body, the body of: this. 
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body it is ſuppoſed to animate, nor bear indeed any 
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would in truth no more be mine, than the body of 
the planet Jupiter. I could have no more power to. 
put my own limbs in motion, as I find 1 do, by the 
meer act of my own will, than to invert the revolu- 
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the body, to which it is attached; and the motions 


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that no ſuch thing as animation could take place. 
But this ſym pathy between ſoul and body being once 


eſtabliſhed, it is impoſſible, but that the conſcious 


ſoul muſt be pleaſurably, or otherwiſe, affected, ac 
44 cording to the various impreſſions of external objects 


upon the body, which it animates. Thus that, in 
the future ſtate of retribution, the good will enjoy 
corporal pleaſure, andthe bad ſuffer corporal Pain, 
would be a neceſſary conſequence of that re- union of 
he ſoul and the body, which we are taught to expect 


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ds that it is unneceſſary to dwell upon the 
__ With reſpect to the Righteous, the thing 
might ſeem more doubtful, except ſo far as it is 
deducible, in what manner I have ſhewn, from the 
general doctrine of the reſurrection, were it not for 


one very explicit and deciſive paſſage in the Second of 
St. Paul's epiſtles to the Corinthians“. This paſſage 


hath unfortunately loſt ſomewhat, in our public 


tranſlation, of the preciſion. of the original text, by 


for illuſtration, which have nothing anſwering to 
them in 'the original, and ſerve only to obſcure 


an injudicious inſertion of unneceſſary words, meant 


what they were intended to elucidate. By the omif. 


ſion of theſe unneceſſary words, without a any 0 other 


amendment of the tranſlation, the paſſage i in our Eng- 
_ liſh Bibles will be reſtored to its genuine perſpicuity'; ; 


and it wilt be found to contain a direct and poſitive af- 


ſertion of the doctrine we have laid down. We nu 


« all appear,“ ſays the Apoſtle, before the judge- 7 


ment ſeat of Chriſt,” And this is the end; for which 
all muſt appear befote that awful tribunal; namely, 


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vy Grothe, and by Mills, if I undefſtand him Fight, Ihongh it Ras not 
authority of a ſingle Greek Ms. or the decided authority of any one of the 
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« hath not ſeen, nor EAR heard, neither hath it en- 
« tered into the HEAT of man to conceive, ſuch 
6 good things as God hath prepared for them that 
% love him “.“? Numberleſs and raviſning are the 
beauties, which the) mortal xx beholds, in the vari- 
ous works of creation and of art. Elegant, and of 
endleſs variety, the entertainments, which are pro- 
vided for the FAR; ; whether it delight to liſten to the 
ſober narratives of hiftory,' or the wild fictions, of ro- 
mance; whether it hearken to the grave leſſons of 
the moraliſt, to the abſtruſe demonſtrations of 
ſcience, the round periods of eloquence, the ſprightly 
flouriſhes of rhetoric, „the ſmooth. numbers and bold 
flights of poetry; or catch the enchanting ſounds of 
harmony: That poetry, which ſings, in its inſpired 
ſtrains, the wonders of creating power and redeeming 
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notes, up to the eternal throne of God Infinite i 1s - 
the multitude: of pleaſurable forms, which fancy”; RE: 
own creation can at will call forth. But in all this 
inexhauſtible treaſure of external gratifications, With 
which this preſent world is ſtored; amidſt all the 
objects, which move the ſenſes with pleaſure, and 
fill the admiring ſoul with rapture and delight; no- 
thing is to be found, which may convey, to our 
preſent faculties, ſo much as a remote conception of 
thoſe tranſporting ſcenes, which the better world, 
in which they ſhall be placed, ſhall hereafter e 5 
o the children of men s love, „ rey | 


It! 1s 3 a to us, that theſe ARES enjoy- : 
ments of the body will be widely different in kind 
from the pleaſures which, in our preſent ſtate, re- 
ſult even from the moſt. innocent and lawful gratiſi. 
" cations of the corporeal appetites. In the ems? 
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. proſpe, as muſt: 611 the pious ſoul no leſs with - 
- wonder than with love. It is plainly intimated, that 
the good things, which the righteous: will receive 
in their bodies, will be the ſame in kind far inferior 
doubtleſs. in degree but the ſame: they will be 
in kind, which are enjoyed by the human nature 
in our Lord, in its preſent ſtate of exaltation at 


the right hand of God. It is revealed to us, that 
dur capacity of receiving the good things —— = 


for us, will be the effect of a change, to be wroug 

in our bodies at Chriſt's ſecond coming, by — — 
they will be transformed into the likeneſs: of the glo- 
rified body of our Lord. The firſt man, ſaith St. 
« Paul, was of the earth, moulded of the "Clap 95 
« the ſecond man is the Lord from heaven.“ And: 
_ & og we have borne the imageiof the man of N we 
© ſhall alſo bear the image of the man in Heaven . * 
And in another place, We look for the Saviour, 
the Lord Jeſus Chriſt, Who ſhall change our vile 
* body, that it may be faſhioned like unto his glori- | 
sous body, according to the working whereby he is 


« able even to ſubdue all things unto himſelf .“ 


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courſe from which my text is taken, ſpeaks of this 
_ glorious transformation, as the utmoſt that we know 
with certainty about our future condition. Be- 
* loved,” he faith, now we are the ſons of God. 
And it doth not yet appear, 4 what we hall bez but 
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had ſpoken: juſt before in the former chapter 
know this, though | we know nothing elſe, chat 
when Chriſt ſhall appear) we hall be like Him, 


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| thatefare' of the Pa nature in Chriſt Jen n not ths 
eſſential pur ity- of the Divine nature; that is. pro- ü 
poſed to us, as an example for our imitation. An in- 
attention to this diſtinction was the cauſe of much 
fuolly in the ſpeculations, and of much impurity in 
* . the lives, of many of the antient Myſties. The purity 
of the Divine nature is one of the incommunicable and 
inimitable perfections of God. It conſiſts in that diſ- 
tance and ſeparation, of the Deity from all inferior na- 
res, which is the ſole prerogative of ſelf-exiſti ceand 
onmmnipotence. Sufficient in himſelf to his own. happi- 
| | ebb, and to the purpoſes of his own will, it is im- 
poſſible, that God can be moved by any deſires to- 
wards things external; except it he, in the delight he 
takes in the goodneſs of his creatures: and this ulti- 
-mately reſolves itſelf into his ſelf-complacenicy: in his 
own perfections. The Myſtics of antiquity, tightly 
conceiving this parity.of the Divine nature, but not 
attending to the infinite diſtance between the firſt in- 
tellect and the intelligent principle in man, abſurdly 
imagined, that this eſſential purity of God himſelf 
was that, they were required to imitate. Then ob- 
ſerying, what plainly is the fact, that all the vices of 
1 men proceed from the impetuoſity of thoſe appetites, ; 
* Which have their origin in the imperfections and in- 
3 Hrmities of the animal nature; but forgetting, that 


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of rhat depravity of both, which Was occaſions d. h 1 
1 the firlt inp /grethe ; they, fell into this erraten. W 
_ © They conceiv at the mind, Aigen meg ©, 
| "ora became contaminatec 5 
nations, and weakened in its powel toy, itsconnes 7: 
5 with the matter of the body; to which. they aſcribed 
All impurity. Hence they-conceived, that the mind 
to recover its original purity and vigeur, muſt ap: 
ſtract itſelf from all the eoncerns of the animal na: 
5 ture, and exerciſe its do Wers, apart As- it were. from 6 | 
the body, upon the objects of pure intellect. This 
effort of enthuſiaſm they vainly called an imitation of 
the Divine purity, by which they fancied they might - 
become united to God. This folly was the moſt 
harmleſs; when it led to nothing worſe, than a life 
of moffenfive quietiſm; which however rendered the 
0 individual uſeleſs in ſociety, regardleſs of the relative — 
cn and ſtudious only of that ſhnlew of . will-wior- 
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e ee were more pernicious. Finding that | 
total; abſtraction from ſenſe, at whichi; they ; aimed, <_ - 
impracticable; and ſtill affecting, in the intelligent 
part, parity with God; n melter under this 
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prepoſter n they . that . ÞÞ ads 
hered to matter, that it could not be communicated 
to mind ; that the rational ſoul was not, in any de- 
Free, fullicd or debaſed by the vitious appetites of the 
_ depraved animal nature; and under this, whether 
ſerious perſuaſion or hypocritieal pretence, they 
profanely boaſted of an intimate communion of their 
Puls with God, white they openly wallowed in the 


19.2 proffeſt impurities of the fleſh. Theſe errors and 


theſe enormities had deen prevented, had it been un- 
derſtood, that it is not the purity' of the Divine na- 
ture in itſelf, but the purity of the human nature 
in ca which W e to man's imita 


195 Again: the. 40 of the e nag nature ! 
Chrift, which we are required to imitate, is not that 
purity, which the manhood in Chriſt now enjoys, 
in its preſent ſtate of exaltation. For even that will 
not be attainable to fallen man, till :. the redemption 
4 of the body ſhall have taken place. The purity, 
which is our preſent example, is the purity of 
Chriſt's life on earth, in his ſtate of humiliation; in 
which 4 he was tempted in all things like unto us, 
und yet was without fin“ In what that purity 
conſiſted, may be beſt learned in the detail hy diligent 
ſtudy and meditation of Chriſt's holy life. A gene- 


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enumeration of the things, that are the moſt oppoſite 
do it, and are the chief cauſes. of: defilement. _ 
Theſe,” faith our Lord, are the things-which- "EN On 
+ defile a man; evil. thoughts, murthers, adultes _ 

1% ries, nen thefts, falſe. ON _ 


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of theſe 1 Adee tis 50 difficule' oa 
be entirely eſcaped; are the three, of evil thoughts, 
adulteries, and fornications. Few haue hardened: 
their hearts to the cruelty of murtlier or their forer 
heads againſt the ſhame of theft or perjury. Few 
are capable of the impiety of direct laſphemy. But 
to the ſolicitations, of what are called thedafter ai 
ſions, we are apt to yield with leſs repugnance; pro- 
| bably for this reaſon; that neither the injury of 
our neighbour, nor a ſordid ſelf-advantage, nor the: 
affront of God, being ſo immediately the abi * ö 
che act in theſe, as in the other inſtances ; We are 
net equally deterred from the crime, by any Atro- 
cious malignity or. diſguſting meanneſa, chat it carries 
in its very firſt aſpedt. Hence theſe are the ſins. 
With which the generality of mankind, in che gast 
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of fallen Man' sdepravity, towards the enticing objects 
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For this bn ths Holy Saks, with parti- 
culur earneſtneſs, enjoin an abſtinence from theſe 
defilements. /-** Flee from fleſhly luſts,” ſays St. Pe- 
ter; „ hich war againſt the ſoul?” And to theſe 
pollutions the admonition in the text Lee to! have 
a particular regard. For the original word, which 
we render pure, is moſt agen eren to the 
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0 e Pnißes himſelf DIR Would God 1 a 
better conformity to the exa 
actually obtains, were to be found in the lives of 


nominal Chriſtians ! The numbers would be greater, 


_ which might entertain à reaſonable hope, that they 


hall de made like to him, when he appeareth. 
But, thanks be to God! repentance, in this, as in 
other caſes, genuine ſincere repentance, mall ſtand the 


finner in the ſtead of innocence. The penitent js 


allowed to waſh the Gre een n of theſe eee 


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- at oſtle intimates, that every one? 's-purification. from ©, 
| defilements, which, in a greater or a leſs degree, { 75 05 = 
PE ins not contracted; the individual's. . perſonal — "= 
purification muſt, under God, depend principally «oY 
upon himſelf; upon his care to watch over the mo- 1 
tions of his own heart; upon his vigilance to guard „„ 
againſt temptations from without; upon "rs medita- : - 68 
tion of Chriſt's example; upon his aſſiduity to ſeex „ 
in prayer the neceſſary ſuecour of, God's, grace. 
Much, however, may be done, for the purification 
of the public manners, by wiſe and politic inſtitu-. 1 1 
tions. In which the firſt object ſhould be, to yeni ++ 
and ſecure the ſanctity of the female 1 
to check the progreſs of its incipient corruption. | Vo ” = 
For the moſt effectual reſtraint, upon the vicious pa... 
ſions of men, ever will be a general faſhion and habit N 
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underſtood, and very generally adopted, in the x 
ey of all civilized-nations. In which the preſervation 
of: female: chaſtity, in, all ages, and in all parts f 
the world, hath been an object of prime concern. 
Of various means that have b been uſed for its ſecurity, ,_ 5 
none . © well Ne ee pat to attain the end, nor 
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| have: any other 8 ſo generally weren, as the 
practice, which hath long prevailed in this and other 
Turopeat countries, of releaſing our wotnen from 
the reſtraints impoſed upon them by the jealoufy of 
Faſtern manters; but under this indiſpenſable condi- 
tion, that the female in Whatever rank, Who once 
abuſes her liberty to bring a ſtain upon her character, 


; Mall from that motnent be configned to indelible dif- 


grace, and expelled, for the whole reminder of her 
life, from the ſociety of the virtivus of her own ex. 
But yet; as imperfection attends en all things human, 
this practice, however generally et Abad 5 
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It is one great Jeet, that, by the lauren of: ths 
Hoke; for the thing ſtands upon no other ground, 
the whole infamy is made to light upon one party 
only in the crime of two ; and the man, who for the 

molt part is the author, not the meer accomplice of 
the woman's guilt, and for. that reaſon is the greater 
delinquent, is left unpuniſhed and uncenſured. This 
mode of partial puniſhenent affords not to the weaker 
Tex the protection, which, in juſtice: and found policy, 
3s their due, againſt the arts of the feducer. The 
Jeviſh law fet an example of a better policy and 
more equal juſtice, When, in the cafe of adultery, it 
"condemned both parties to an equal puniſhment; 
"which, indeed, was nothing leſs than Phang : 
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1 3 evil, a Miſchief, attendingthe ſeverity, a fa- 
n. ſeverity upon the whole, of our dealing with the 
lapſed female, is this; that it proves an obſtacle, almoſt 
| inſurmountable, to her return into the paths of virtue and 
ſobriety, from which; -ſhe hath. once deviated.. The firſt - 
thing that happens, upon the detect ion of her ame, is, 
tthat ſhe is abandoned by her friends, in reſentment of 
the diſgrace ſhe hath brought upon her family. She is 
ther's houſe—ſhe finds no 
refuge in the arms of her ſeducer—his fated paſſion 
loaths: the. charms be bath enjoyed —ſhe gains _admit- 
tance at no hoſpitable door ſhe i is caſt a wanderer upon 
the ſtreets, without money, without a lodging, without 
food. Ins this forlorn and hopeleſs ſituation, Suicide or 
| Proſtitution i is the alternative, to which ſhe is reduced. 
Thus the very poſſibility of repentance is almoſt cut off; 
unleſs it be ſuch repentance, as may be exerciſed by the 
terrified ſinner in her laſt agonies, periſhing in the open 
ſtreets, under. the mercileſs peltin g of the elements, of 
cold andchunger, and a, broken heart. And yet the 
> youth, the inexperience, . the gentle manners once, of 
many of theſe miſerable victims of man's ſeduction, 
plead hard for mercy, if mercy might be conſiſtent with 
the ſafety of the treaſure, we ſo ſternly guard. We | 
have high authority to ſay, that theſe fallen women are 
not of all ſinners the moſt incapable of penitence; not 
the moſt I to be touched . a ſenſe of their 
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ment. They are not of all ſinners the moſt without 
hope, if timely opportunity of "repentance were afforded 
them. Sinners ſuch as theſe, upon Ichn the Bäptiſt's 
firſt preaching, found their way into the "Kingdom "of 
heaven, before the Phariſees, ' with! al "heir" 8 1 
5 ſhew of 5 and Leif, Se | | 
This dcelar: zration fs our L 15 Nd " 1 85 : 
this charitable inſtitution, "which hrdiites"s zar r 
theſe: wretched outcaſts of "ſociety ; ; not for thofe oiny 
| who, a ſingle fault, ſeldom withiou ut. Its "extetitia- 
tions, 1 50 forfeited the protection of their "Heareſt 
| friends ; but even for thoſe, pevetally the moſt unp itiea, 5 
but not always the moſt undeſerving of Pity, agg | 
the daughters of Eve, whom deſperation, the "te . 
fe of their firſt falſe ſtep, hath dripen to the loweſt 
walks of trivial” proſtitution,” In the reti remeht öf this 
Peaceful mankon, withdrawn from the 'reth tations of : 
the world, ' concealed from the & eye of public 1 oth, pro- 
teQed ey the inſultiüg tongue of obloquy [OI 5 
vit th the necellaries of ki, though denied 15 Toxvuties; - 
furpiſhed with religious inftruQion,” aud with" empl 72 
went ſuited to their ſeveral abilities, they habe leiſure to 
reflect on their paſt follies; they are reſcued from” de- 
ſpair, . that worſt enemy of the Ainfler's Tul; they 1 
placed 3 in a firuation' to be Ve er tHbir vos "Hiblis SP Viet 
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Zh wich which its endeavours, by God's bleſſing, have been 
- crowned. Of three thouſand women admitted- bes : 
the firſt inſtitution, two-thirds, upon a probable com- 
putation formed upon the average of four years; have been 
ſaved from the gulph in which they had well nigh 
funk, reſtored to the eſteem of their friends, to the 


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life, and raiſed from the death of ſin unto the life of 
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a who, not checked, like: theſe, in their ca- 
reer of guilty pleaſure, by any frowns or cenſures f 
the world, have rejoiced themſelves in their youth' ? 
without reſtraint; © have walked,” without fear and 
without thought, in the ways of their heart, and in 
« the ſight of their eyes; and at laſt perhaps ſolace 


the wretched decrepitude of a vicious old age, with _ 


a proud recollection of the triumphs of their early 
manhood, over unſuſpecting woman's frailty : nor 
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