XII. IT was of Old, yea, it is at this day, a prevailing Opinion, among the Strangers to the Glorious Gospel of the Blessed God; That the Manes, which remain after Death, have still an Humane Shape, and all the Parts both External & Internal, which there were in the Body that is now deserted: yea, That there ⟨p. 7⟩is a Food which this Departed Spirit craves for & Lives on. Homer inflicts Punishments on the Wicked after Death, which there must be a Sort of Bodies to be the Subjects of. And Plato Speaks of those that are Punished in Hell, as having such Members and Faces as they had once upon the Earth. Indeed Justin Martyr argues from it, that these old Gentlemen must needs have some Knowledge and Belief of our Doctrine of, The Resurrection of the Dead. But what shall we say, when our Glorious LORD-REDEEMER, in His Parable of the Rich man, supposes his Body in the Grave, and yet being in Hell, he cries out of a Body, and particularly, of a Tongue, that is tormented there? Many of the Ancients thought, there was much of a Real History in the Parable; and their Opinion was, That there is, DIAPHORA KATATAS MORPHAS, A Distinction (and so a Resemblance) of men as to their Shapes after Death. We find This was the Opinion of Iraen••s; who proves, from what our SAVIOUR Speaks of the Dead Man, that the Souls which have put off their Bodies, do yet Characterem Corporum Custodire, Preserve the Shapes of the Bodies, to which they were United. And from the same Speech of our SAVIOUR, Tertullian does infer, E••igiem Animae et Corporales Lineas, the Shape and Corporal Lineaments of the Soul, I will say nothing ⟨p. 8⟩of what Thespesius returning to Life reported about the, •A TONE PSEUCONE CROMATA, The Colours of Souls, & the Ulcers by their Passions left upon them.
XII. IT was of Old, yea, it is at this day, a prevailing Opinion, among the Strangers to the Glorious Gospel of the Blessed God; That the Manes, which remain after Death, have still an Humane Shape, and all the Parts both External & Internal, which there were in the Body that is now deserted: yea, That there ⟨p. 7⟩is a Food which this Departed Spirit craves for & Lives on. Homer inflicts Punishments on the Wicked after Death, which there must be a Sort of Bodies to be the Subjects of. And Plato Speaks of those that are Punished in Hell, as having such Members and Faces as they had once upon the Earth. Indeed Justin Martyr argues from it, that these old Gentlemen must needs have some Knowlege and Belief of our Doctrine of, The Resurrection of the Dead. But what shall we say, when our Glorious LORD-REDEMER, in His Parable of the Rich man, supposes his Body in the Grave, and yet being in Hell, he cries out of a Body, and particularly, of a Tongue, that is tormented there? Many of the Ancients thought, there was much of a Real History in the Parable; and their Opinion was, That there is, DIAPHORA KATATAS MORPHAS, A Distinction (and so a Resemblance) of men as to their Shapes after Death. We find This was the Opinion of Iraen••s; who proves, from what our SAVIOUR Speaks of the Dead Man, that the Souls which have put off their Bodies, do yet Characterem Corporum Custodire, Preserve the Shapes of the Bodies, to which they were United. And from the same Speech of our SAVIOUR, Tertullian does infer, E••igiem Animae et Corporales Lineas, the Shape and Corpoperal Lineaments of the Soul, I will say nothing ⟨p. 8⟩of what Thespesius returning to Life reported about the, •A TONE PSEUCONE CROMATA, The Colours of Souls, & the Ulcers by their Passions left upon them.
