Morning Star

RESURRECTION.

The mechanism of the human frame and the direction of some of its movements, contrary to the known and received laws of philosophy, sufficiently demonstrate that the architect of such a piece could effect any thing. Nothing could be argued philosophically against the doctrine, from the dissolution of the parts of the human frame; bodies are capable of restoration, after being most completely dissolved. If you take a piece of silver and plunge it into a vessel of aqua-fortis, it will not merely dissolve, but become invisible, as sugar melting in water, the silver which was before invisible, will fall to the bottom in a white powder; none of its qualities are changed and nothing of its value diminished. It may be taken out and melted down, and committed to the hand of the artist, and may be formed into the same piece of plate as before its solution. Thus may the body be dissolved and scattered, it may be burnt to ashes or buried in the dust, or in the ocean, but the power of God can restore it; and it is no greater an exertion of power than was required at its formation, and exercised in its preservation. And as the human body is always undergoing some change, and in a few weeks becomes materially altered, by the dispersion of some of its particles in perspiration or otherwise: and in the replacing of them by nutriment received; yet no one scrupples to call it the same body, and no one doubts its personal identity. So, at the resurrection of the body, its constituent parts will be sufficient to secure its identity.—Dr. Collyer.