The works of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…The workes of the reuerend and faithfull seruant af Iesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…

Again, shall we think that the Sadducees did generally resist it? no: they had their false glosses, and their forced interpretations, with whom Satan in policy would pretend a maintaining of that, which in purpose he sought to mangle and mar. The Philosophers had many glancing and glorious speeches of the immortality of the soul; but when they came to this point, concerning the rising again of the flesh, nothing was more ridiculous and incredible unto them. In so much that many of them, of the Epicures and Stoics, mocked Paul disputing of this matter, and said, What will this babbler say, as we may read Act. 17. verse. 18. And when he spake of the resurrection from the dead, some mocked, and others said, we will hear thee again •f this matter. Surely if the rising again had been nothing, but the renewing of the mind, as some fondly dream and falsely affirm, it may be thought, that the Academics would have conceived this doctrine, and Plato's idea hath as great secrets. But here is the point which they stick at, and can by no ⟨p. 176⟩means digest it, that the natural body, after it is consumed into the air, fire, water, or earth, should afterward revive, and receive supernatural qualities: and as Philosophers¹ and Heretics cannot brook this kind of teaching, so sure it is, that few of the common professors receive it in truth, as their lives do manifestly prove.

Againe, shall wee thinke that the Sadduces did generally resist it? no: they had their false glosses, and their forced interpretations, with whom Satan in policie would pretend a maintaining of that, which in purpose hee sought to mangle and marre. The Philosophers had many glancing and glorious speeches of the immortalitie of the soule; but when they came to this point, concerning the rising againe of the flesh, nothing was more ridiculous and incredible vnto them. In so much that many of them, of the Epicures and Stoikes, mocked Paul disputing of this matter, and said, What will this babbler say, as wee may reade Act. 17. verse. 18. And when hee spake of the resurrection from the dead, some mocked, and others said, we will heare thee againe f this matter. Surely if the rising againe had been nothing, but the renewing of the minde, as some fondly dreame and falsely affirme, it may bee thought, that the Academicks would haue conceiued this doctrine, and Platoesidaea hath as great secrets. But here is the point which they sticke at, and can by no