Christs eternal existence, and the dignity of his person asserted and proved in opposition…

2. Your own Resurrection, what may facilitate our belief and hope of it?

1. Consider it is a work of Omnipotency. We are apt to say, how can it be, that when our bodies are turned into dust and that dust mingled with other dust, and hath undergone many transmutations, that •very one shall have his own body and flesh again? Why consider the Infinite and Absolute Power of God, and this will make it more reconcilable to your thoughts, and this hard point will be of easier digestion to your Faith. To an Infinite power there is no difficulty at all, Phil. 3.21. According to the working whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself. He appeals to Gods power, how much Gods power out-works our thoughts; for he were not infinite if he might be comprehended. We are not fit Judges of the extent of his power; many things are marvellous in our eyes, which are not so to his, Zech. 8.6. Therefore we must not confine God to the limits of created b•ings, or our finite understandings. Alas! our Cockle-•hell cannot empty an Ocean; we do no more know what God can do, than a worm knoweth a man. He that made the world out of nothing, cannot ⟨p. 163⟩he raise the dead? He that brought such multitudes of creatures out of the dark Chaos, hath he forgotten what is become of our dust? He that gave Life and Being to that which before was not, cannot he raise the dead? He that turned Moses Rod into a Serpent, and from a Serpent into a Rod again, cannot he raise us out of dust into men, and •u•n us from men into dust, and from the same dust […] us up into the same men and women ••ain?