5. What makes the same man?
Nor let any one think that the questions I have here proposed about the identity of
man are bare empty speculations; which, if they were, would be enough to show, that there was in the
understandings of men no innate idea of identity. He that shall with a little attention reflect on the resurrection,
and consider that divine justice will bring to judgment, at the last day, the very same persons, to be happy or
miserable in the other, who did well or ill in this life, will find it perhaps not easy to resolve with himself, what
makes the same man, or wherein identity consists; and will not be forward to think he, and every one, even
children themselves, have naturally a clear idea of it.
