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11. Christ expressly saith, There shall be a Resurrection to condemnation, John 5. and that the wicked shall go to everlasting punishment, Matth. 25. and that their worm never dieth, nor their fire is quenched, &c. But if the Soul be not immortal, there can be no Resurrection: It will not be the same man, but another new made: And shall a new soul suffer for another's sin? Luke 16. in the case of Dives and Lazarus, tells us Christ's mind of this.

11. Christ expresly saith, There shall be a Resurrection to condemnation, John 5. and that the wicked shall go to everlasting punishment, Matth. 25. and that their worm never dieth, nor their fire is quenched, &c. But if the Soul be not immortal, there can be no Resurrection: It will not be the same man, but another new made: And shall a new soul suffer for anothers sin? Luke 16. in the case of Dives and Lazarus, tells us Christ's mind of this.

12. Yet I confess that the Resurrection of the Body was not promised before the Fall, nor yet plainly threatened, but seemeth to be the common effect of Redemption in its first instance, as it was for all Mankind; viz. That man being filius mortis, Christ would first, as a common Saviour, restore his Nature, and then set him in the way of Trial for its happiness or misery; as God at first made his Nature, and then tried him accordingly. But it seems had there been no Saviour, the body should have continued dead (being but the mere instrument of the sinning soul), and the immortal soul be immortally unhappy.