A27004:1799
The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…
The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural evidence the being of God ... : the second part, of Christianity, proving by evidence supernatural and natural, the certain truth of the Christian belief ... / by Richard Baxter ... ; also an appendix defending the soul's immortality against the Somatists or Epicureans and other pseudo-philosophers.
London: printed by R. White for Fran. Titon, 1667
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Obj. IX. The Resurrection of these Numerical Bodies, when they are devoured and turned into the substance of other bodies, is a thing incredible†.
- †Cum non esses, re formavit ex humida & mini•a substantia, & ex minutissima guttula, quae nec ipsi aliquando erat. Thioph. Antioch. ad Antolych. l. 1.
Answ. 1. If it be neither against the Power, the Wisdom, or the Will of God, it is not incredible at all.1 But it is not against any of these. Who can say, that God is unable to raise the dead, who seeth so much greater things performed by him, in the daily motion of the Sun (or Earth) and in the support and course of the whole frame of Nature? He that can every Spring give a kind of Resurrection, to Plants and Flowers, and Fruits of the Earth, can easily raise our bodies from the dust. And no man can prove, that the Wisdom of God, or yet his Will, are against our Resurrection; but that both ⟨p. 396⟩are for it,2 may be proved by his Promises: Shall that which is beyond the power of Man, be therefore objected as a difficulty to God?
Answ. 1. If it be neither against the Power, the Wisdom, or the Will of God, it is not incredible at all.1 But it is not against any of these. Who can say, that God is unable to raise the dead, who seeth so much greater things performed by him, in the daily motion of the Sun (or Earth) and in the support and course of the whole frame of Nature? He that can every Spring give a kinde of Resurrection, to Plants and Flowers, and Fruits of the Earth, can easily raise our bodies from the dust. And no man can prove, that the Wisdom of God, or yet his Will, are against our Resurrection; but that both