The Po.ffibility ofth Refurretli!1V. State IV. of God. We believe God to be omni!cien t and omnipotent; infinite in knowledge and in p·o\v'er: acd hence , ..._g.reeable to the diCl:ates of reafon, we conclude the pdlibility of the refurreClion, even in tbe cafes fuppp-fed. Material things may 'change their forms and .fhapes, may · be refolv~d into the principles of whi~h they are formed : but they, are not annihilated, or reduced tq ClO thing; nor··can th~y be fo qy any _created pow~r. ·God i!; omni fcient, his u.nderflanding iJ infinite: therefore he kn..- :all things what· foever ; that they were at any time, what they an:, and where they are to be found. Tho'- the country-_man, who comes into the apothecary's ~op, can no t finJ out the drug . he ~ant's ; yet the apothecary himfelf ~o~vs wh at be has in his !hop, when~e it came 1 and where it is to be fou nd. , And in a m,ingle',ef many diffefent feeds , the expert g:trden- , er can , diHinguifh betwixt feed and feed. \Vhy then may , not Omoifcieoce difiinguifh. b~twixt duit and dun ? Can he who knows all things to perfection, be liable to any' miHake · about J1is own creatures ? \Yhofo beii evcs an inlinite un– derfianding, mull: needs own, that n<l mafs of durt i~ fo jumbled together, but God perfeCtly compreheods, and ill- . fallibly knows how the mofl minute pa rt icle~ and eve·ry one. of them is to be matched. And therefore , he knows where ' the particles of eacl~ dead boc~y 2re; whet!1er in the earth,. f.fa, orair ; how co11fufed foev er they lie. /\nd particular.. ly, h~ kno\VS where to find t he primitive fubllance ' of the man-eater; howfoever. e\':.l porate or. reduced, a.s it were, . into air or vapour, by fw~at or perfp ira tion : and bow to eparate the:; parts of the body that was eaten, from the body of th'e eater, .howfoever incorpbrate, or -made one body with it: amd fo uoderflands, not {)p.lyhow, but whence, he is, to hring back the-primitive fu0flance ot the.man eater to its proper place; and·alfo to fep~rate, from the man eater's , body, thlt part of the devoured body which goes.into its ·, Jub[hnce, and is indeed but a very fmall part of it_. It is · certain the bodies of men, a·s of all other animals, o~ livi.Q.g creatures, are in a continual flux: .they grow, and are fuf– ta'i ned by daily food; fo fmall a part whereof becomes nouri!hmen t, th.n the mofl part is evacll~te . , And it is reckoned· that, af leafl> as much of the food is evacuate iofeniibly by perfpiration, as 1s avoided by other perceptible . ways. .
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