The first he proves by these Reasons. First, His Body had lain too long in the Grave, so that it must have been disfigured. Secondly, It must have stunk. Thirdly, There was no Taylor in the Grave to make him a Mantle. Fourthly, It must have been an Omnipotent Power to have done this. Fifthly, A Syllogism is brought to prove this contrary to the Scripture, which saith, That those that die in the Lord, rest from their Labours.
Now the Four first Arguments he may take again, we have no concern with them. For 'tis senseless to think, that the gross Body came out of the Grave; and if he means the resting of the Terrestrial Body, by the Fifth, he may take that back too. And indeed, as applyed to the Body without the Soul, the disturbing of it is Nonsense. Its corruption in the Grave is continual motion, and more disturbance than the raising it entirely would be, if it were any at all, but properly it is none, no more than is the taking of a Stone out of a Quarry. Therefore if there be any Argument in this, it falls under the next Query.
The Sixth Argument is a Question, viz. Who joyned the Soul and Body again? Not the Witch nor the Devil. The Opinion is Erroneous, Impious, and Blasphemous. And for me, let him call it what he pleaseth; his strength is in hard Words, which here like the Stones thrown sometimes by Witchcraft light like Wool, and here far also from the Mark.
SECT. XXIII.
That it was the Soul of Samuel that appeared without his Terrestrial Body, and that it is an indifferent Opinion, in which are divided as well Papists as Protestants.
But there is a Second Opinion yet to be Confuted, viz. That it was Samuel's in his wonted Shape and Habit, p. 173. He must mean his Soul without the Body, or else 'tis the same again; and if he means without any Body, I am none of those that mean with him. It is most fully and plainly proved by those excellent Men, Dr. C-- and Dr. M-- that Souls departed are embodied in Ærial or Ætherial Vehicles; and they
