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,…

if out of the earth, which being a formele•se mass and sump, was by the spirit of God hatching over the waters brought a comely order; if out of the darkness the Lord drew light; if of the dust of the earth God made man, and out of his¹ rib drew a woman: is it not as easy for him, drawing these and all other things out of nothing, to draw our flesh, being made, out of the earth, in which it was corrupted? is it not as easy to draw a man out of the earth again, as to make a man of the earth at first? Is it not as easy, though rottenness doth seem to hinder the resurrection, to renew a body out of many bones, as out of one bone to frame a whole body? Is not the Lord as able to restore the body, which he dissolveth into the elements, being made into it former fashion, as before it had any being, to tie the flesh together with sinews, to convey strength into the bones, and to beautify all with a skin Let us as well consider God his power, in reducing mens bodies into their former estate, as his mighty hand in unloosing them. For as he bringeth flesh to rottenness, the rottenness to worms, the worms to dust: so can he if he would reduce and bring backward the dust to the worms, the worms to a putrefied matter, the putrefaction to flesh, the flesh to immortality.

if out of the earth, which being a formele•se masse and sumpe, was by the spirite of God hatching ouer the waters brought a comely order; if out of the darkenesse the Lord drew light; if of the dust of the earth God made man, and out of his¹ ribbe drew a woman: is it not as easie for him, drawing these and all other things out of nothing, to draw our flesh, being made, out of the earth, in which it was corrupted? is it not as easie to draw a man out of the earth againe, as to make a man of the earth at first? Is it not as easie, though rottennesse doth seeme to hinder the resurrectiō, to renew a body out of many bones, as out of one bone to frame a whole body? Is not the Lord as able to restore the body, which he dissolueth into the elements, being made into it former fashion, as before it had any being, to tie the flesh together with sinewes, to conuey strength into the bones, and to beautifie all with a skin Let vs as well consider God his power, in reducing mens bodies into their former estate, as his mightie hande in vnloosing them. For as hee bringeth flesh to rottennesse, the rottennesse to wormes, the wormes to dust: so can he if he would reduce and bring backward the dust to the wormes, the wormes to a putrified matter, the putrifaction to flesh, the flesh to immortalitie.