206 Twenty Realmfor denying Life, ruption inherit incorruptionj I Corinth. 15.4.2. to 5 I. Objeft. If there were but as muck likelihood of a .Refurreaion 4$ there is of the Reviving ofthe plants in the Spring, could be- lieve it ; for there is a life remaining in the Root or Seed : but the 'body of man hath neither Root norfeed oflife, and therefore its con- trary to nature that it Jhould revive. An v. 1. Ifit be above nature,that is all, it is not contrary to it ; Or notfo contrary as to be above the power of theLord ofnature. Will you allow no greater works for God then fuch as you can fee a reafon of, and can offign a natural caufe ,of? what didnature in the _creation of Nature ! It was not certainly any caufe, of it felf I If Chrill rdfe without a natural caufe, even fo thall we. 2. But why may I not Say that the dead body of man hath a living Root, as tru- ly as the plants inwinter. The (eta is the Root of the body, and the foul is fill alive : And Chrift is the Root of the foul, and he is fill alive. For though we are dead, yet our Life is hid with Chrift in God : and when Chrift who is our life fhali ap- pear (at the Spring of Refurreftion) then we !ball all° appear with him in Glory, Col. 3. 3, 4. And though there be no Phy- neat contat between this living foul and the body, yet there is a Relative Union, and a deep rooted Loveofthe foul to its body, and inclination to it : fo that it is mindful of it, and wait- eth with longing for that hour when the command of God fhall fend it to revive that body ; It is not incredible that if1- !y fnail fhouldby its natural life and power make-for it felf a beautful habitation. Or that the life of a Rofe-tree that was buried in the root, should fabricate a fweet and beaute- ous Rofe by which it may make an oftentation of its invifible Selfto the world. In how fmall a room doth the life ofa filk- worm lie ( of which I fpoke before) in the winter ! That littlegrain or feed is fuch as yields no fignof life to the behold- er : yet cloth it formit felfa larger body, and that body fpin its filken web out of its own nil:dance , and in that houfe it felf in a husk and take to it felf another Thape , and thence become a winged Fly and fo gene- rate more. But neerer us , ih the generation of man ; the vital principle in the feed, dothquickly with concurrent caufes form it felfa body. .The warmth of the body of the Hen or other
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