Connttt íng an'o liebtinption. 431 the duff, and to transform them into the fimilitude ofChap 2 ; Chrift's. ì.nll z. To raife them. Nothing is more aflonifhing to Nature, than that the Bodies which after fo many Ages in the perpetual circulationofthe Elements have paff rinperfeax in intoa thoufand different Forms, one part of them being romine natu, ræ,precipuafo- refolved into Water, another evaporated into Air,ano- latia,te eum ther turned into Duft, fhould be reflored to their firft quidem poffe emuia,uamnet State. What Wifdom is requilte to feparatethe Parts obi potel}mor_ fo mixt and confounded what Power to recompofe ten, confcifce- 7e,nec mortales them ? what Virtue to reinfpire them with new Life r ;cers,itate úo_ It may feemmore difficult than to revive a Dead B3dy nare, necrevo- Pii whole Organs and matter is not changed, of which we caredefnneos. n.ab.z. c7, have Examples in the Scripture. When the Spirit of the Lordplaced Ezekiel in the midfl of a Valley cover'd with bones, andcaufed him to confider attentively their Number which was very great, and their extreme dry- nefs, he askt him, whether thefe bones could live ? upon Ezek.37,4,5,6. which as one divided and ballanced between the feem- ing Impoffibility ofthe thingin it Pelf, and the confide- ration ofthe Divine Power to whichnothing is impof- fible, he anfwered, Lord thouknowe,fl. Upon this God commandedhim, to Prophefe upon thole bones, and fpeak to them, as if they had been endued withSenfe and Un- derftanding. Oye dry Bones, hear the Word ofthe Lord: Thus faith the Lord Godunto thefe Bones, BeholdI will caufe breath to enter into you, and ye fballlive, And I will layfinews upon you, andwill bring in flefb upon you, and coveryou withskin, andput breath inyou, andyefhall live, and ye(ball know that I am the Lord.. And imme- diately there was a general commotion among them,. they joyned together, the finews and MI came upon them, and the skin covered them. And up- a fecondProphefy they werealli infpired with the.Breath ofLife, and (load up an. exceedinggreatArmy. Now whether.
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