A Body of Practical Divinity

Argument 4. If the Body did not rise again, then a Believer should not be completely happy; for though the Soul can subsist without the Body, yet it hath Appetitum Unionis, a desire of re-union with the Body; and it is not fully happy till it be clothed with the Body: Therefore undoubtedly the Body shall rise again: If the Soul should go to Heaven, and not the Body, then a Believer should be only half saved.

Argument 4. If the Body did not rise again, then a Believer should not be compleatly happy; for though the Soul can subsist without the Body, yet it hath Appetitum Unionis, a desire of re-union with the Body; and it is not fully happy till it be clothed with the Body: Therefore undoubtedly the Body shall rise again: If the Soul should go to Heaven, and not the Body, then a Believer should be only half saved.

Object▪ 1. But some may say, as the Virgin Mary to the Angel, How can this be? So how can it be, that the Body which is consumed to Ashes, should arise again?

Object▪ 1. But some may say, as the Virgin Mary to the Angel, How can this be? So how can it be, that the Body which is consum'd to Ashes, should arise again?

Resp. It doth not oppose Reason, but transcend it. There are some Resemblances of the Resurrection in Nature. The Corn which is sown in the ground dies before it springs up, 1 Cor. 15.36. That which thou sowest is not quickened except it dye. In Winter the Fruits of the Earth dye, in Spring there is a Resurrection of them. Noah's Olive-tree springing after the Flood, was a lively Emblem of the Resurrection. After the Passion of our Lord, many of the Saints which slept in the Grave, arose,