Ttivnty Reafont for denying\Life 207 other Bird, can turn the egge intoa Chicken. Why thenmay not the living foul, that is the Root and life of the body in the duft,be the inftrument ofGod to reform its own body ? as certainly it wifl be the principle that than reinferm it. Bnt you fay,the body beingdead hath no natural root, nor way ofrecefs to life again, becaufe the privation is total. To which anfwer Firft the. Relative union between the foul and it, and the fouls difpofition to theReturn into its body, is as potent a caufe of its reviving,as the natural, union of the Root: andbranches : if withall you confider that Chrift is , theRoot ofthe foul. Rational .agents if perfect, will work as certainly. as Natural. For natural caufes do nothing but by a Power communicated to them from an Intellectual caufe, even God himfelf. Why fhouldNature do anyof thefe things but be- - caufe God that makes and ruleth all, will have it to be fo? Now Jefus Chrift is thePolitical Head of theChurch.. The body in the grave hath its own Relation to him : Chrift is living, and refolved,and engaged by promife, andenclined by Love to revive that body. And asChrift is the Iife of the foul, fo the, foul is the life of the body ; and this foul, as I faid,is waiting to he fent again into it. And when the flour comes, what can hin- der ? The Love of the foul to its body, and its defire to be re- united is a kind of Natural caufe of the Refurredion : A candlenot lighted, is as far from light, and as much without it, as a dead body is without life. And yet one touch of a lighted, candle will light that which never was lighted before.' And fo may one touchof the living foul thats now with Chrift, put life into the body that lieth in the duft. And as the lighted candle makes theother like it, and communicatethof its own nature to it ; fo doth the glorified foul communicate a new kind of excellency to the body, which it never had before : even to be afpiritual, glorious, incorruptible, and immortal body. in the fiat creating ofman, the new formed body as to the matter of it,was no better then the body ofa Beaft or any commonpiece ofearth. But the foul made the difference : when a Rational Soul was breathed into that Body, it advanced the very body to a dignitybeyond the bodies ofbrutes', even fuck as the Na- tural bodyofman had before in WhenChrift, was about to- re-,
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