An Essay on the Fall of Man, and the Necessity of a Mediator; Proved by Argument from the Coincidence Between Reason and Fact, and the Combined Agreement of Both with Divine Revelation. by G. Moase (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1818. Excerpt: ... i SECTION II. Divine justice requires the resurrection of the human body, in order that the entire man may participate in the consequences of moral evil..It has been proved, (if any argument be at all necessary to prove it, ) that the soul, though the principal part, is not the man entire: we must ever include the compound existence of soul and body in our idea of man. A moral action is not to be considered simply as an action of the soul or body, but as an action of the man: consequently, it is not the soul or body separately considered, which offends.or obeys, but the whole man. Therefore, man being an offender, divine justice necessarily requires that the whole man should participate in suffering: soul and body jointly offended; and soul and body must jointly suffer. Now during the period of their physical union in the present condition, the degree of suffering sustained by thebody, is very little, and at death, being deprived pf sensation, it can suffer nothing: justice cannot punish what is physically incapable of sustaining any pain or pleasure, as the body must be while under the power of the grave. As to what the identity of the human body consists in, it affects not the case in question, for us to be ignorant of: it is enough that its Maker knows what it is; and his power can easily restore the body from the arrest of death. And it is evident, that the nature of justice must require its perpetual existence, in conjunction with the body. Here, then arises an irrefragable argument for the resurrection of the dead. The body must be raised, reanimated, and rendered immortal. Justice sends down the body to the grave for a time; but when the designs of the Eternal are accomplished, which He had in view, when He effected the existence of all things, just..