Sermons upon death and eternal judgment

1. The Divine Laws are the Rule of Duty to the entire Man, and not to the Soul only: and they are obeyed or violated by the Soul and Body in conjunction. Therefore there must be a resurrection of the Body, that the entire Person may be capable of Recompenses in Judgment. The Soul designs, the Body executes: the Senses are the open Ports to ⟨p. 87⟩admit Temptations. Carnal Affections deprave the Soul, corrupt the Mind, and mislead it. The love of Sin is sounded in bono jucundo, in sensible pleasures: and the Members are the Servants of Iniquity. The Heart is the Fountain of Profaneness, and the Tongue expresses it. And the Body is obsequious to the holy Soul in doing or suffering for God; and denies its sensual appetites and satisfactions in compliance with Reason and Grace. The Members are the Instruments of Righteousness. It follows then there will be an universal Resurrection, that the rewarding goodness of God may appear in making the Bodies of his Servants gloriously happy with their Souls, and their Souls completely happy in union with their Bodies, to which they have a natural inclination, and his ⟨p. 88⟩revenging Justice be manifest in punishing the Bodies of the Wicked with eternal torments answerable to their guilt.

1. The Divine Laws are the Rule of Duty to the entire Man, and not to the Soul only: and they are obeyed or violated by the Soul and Body in conjunction. Therefore there must be a resurrection of the Body, that the entire Person may be capable of Recompences in Judgment. The Soul designs, the Body executes: the Senses are the open Ports to ⟨p. 87⟩admit Temptations. Carnal Affections deprave the Soul, corrupt the Mind, and mislead it. The love of Sin is sounded in bono jucundo, in sensible pleasures: and the Members are the Servants of Iniquity. The Heart is the Fountain of Prophaneness, and the Tongue expresses it. And the Body is obsequious to the holy Soul in doing or suffering for God; and denies its sensual appetites and satisfactions in compliance with Reason and Grace. The Members are the Instruments of Righteousness. It follows then there will be an universal Resurrection, that the rewarding goodness of God may appear in making the Bodies of his Servants gloriously happy with their Souls, and their Souls compleatly happy in union with their Bodies, to which they have a natural inclination, and his