Discourses, or, Sermons on several Scriptures

Objection. Another Argument against the Resurrection of the Body, may be the various Changes dead Bodies undergo; being first turned into Earth, that again turned into Grass and Herbs, that becoming Nourishment for other Men or Beasts, that Nourishment again passing into their Substance, making a kind of Transmigration of Bodies, as Pythagoras would have there was of Souls: which is very evident in the Case of Anthropomorphites, and Men-Eaters, who have, of several parts of other Men's Bodies, compounded their own. And so the same Question may be demanded, which the Sadducees ⟨p. 94⟩asked our Saviour, concerning the seven Brethren that married the same Woman, whose Wife of the seven she should be at the Resurrection? So here, those Parts that belonged to so many Men, to which of them belong they in the Resurrection, without detriment to the rest? Here the same Answer occurs, that Christ gave them; ¹You err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the Power of God; who is the best Judge of Property, and can resolve all those Parts, by which any Nourishment hath been received by any other Creatures, unto their own proper Bodies again.

Objection. Another Argument against the Resurrection of the Body, may be the various Changes dead Bodies undergo; being first turn'd into Earth, that again turn'd into Grass and Herbs, that becoming Nourishment for other Men or Beasts, that Nourishment again passing into their Substance, making a kind of Transmigration of Bodies, as Pythagoras would have there was of Souls: which is very evident in the Case of Anthropomorphites, and Men-Eaters, who have, of several parts of other Men's Bodies, compounded their own. And so the same Question may be demanded, which the Sadduces ⟨p. 94⟩asked our Saviour, concerning the seven Brethren that married the same Woman, whose Wife of the seven she should be at the Resurrection? So here, those Parts that belonged to so many Men, to which of them belong they in the Resurrection, without detriment to the rest? Here the same Answer occurrs, that Christ gave them; ¹You err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the Power of God; who is the best Judge of Property, and can resolve all those Parts, by which any Nourishment hath been received by any other Creatures, unto their own proper Bodies again.