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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.

12. Yet I confess that the Resurrection of the Body was not promised before the Fall, nor yet plainly threatned, 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 Tryal for its happiness or misery; as God at first made his Nature, and then tryed him accordingly. But it seems had there been no Saviour, the body should have continued dead (being but the meer instrument of the sinning soul), and the immortal soul be immortally unhappy.

13. Therefore in this, if the Doctor mean not better than he speaks, but thinks indeed that the Spirit only is the Principle of the Souls immortality, I differ from him, but not with contempt, acknowledging that these things are weighty, and of difficulty: But I am loath to be less Orthodox than Heathens and Infidels, or than the vain conceited Rabbins, who as Buxtorfe and others tell us, do hold that good Israelites go to Heaven, and bad Israelites to Hell, and all others die like Beasts. Did he so hold of good and bad Christians, it were too gross (or of those that are called by the Gospel, and some believe and some refuse). The Papists most commonly hold, That unbaptized Infants are in some such neutral state, shut out of Heaven, but under no positive pain. But if the Doctor preach so of the Adult and all, tho he seem to abate of his severity to the Dissenters, he will do no service to the Church.