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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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Resp. If we believe God can Create, then he can distinguish the dust of one Body from another. Do we not see the Chemist can, out of several Metals mingled together, as Gold, Silver, Alchemy, extract the one from the other, the Silver from the Gold, the Alchemy from the Silver, and can reduce every Metal to its own kind? And shall we not much more believe, that when our Bodies are mingled and confounded with other Substances, the wise God is able to make an Extraction, and re-invest every Soul with its own Body?
Resp. If we believe God can Create, then he can distinguish the dust of one Body from another. Do we not see the Chymist can, out of several Metals mingled together, as Gold, Silver, Alchimy, extract the one from the other, the Silver from the Gold, the Alchimy from the Silver, and can reduce every Metal to its own kind? And shall we not much more believe, that when our Bodies are mingled and confounded with other Substances, the wise God is able to make an Extraction, and re-invest every Soul with its own Body?
Quest. 3. Shall none but the Bodies of the Righteous be raised?
Resp. Yes, all that are in the Graves shall hear Christs Voice, and shall come forth, Acts 24.15. There shall be a Resurrection of the Dead, both of the just and unjust, Rev. 20.12. I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God. But though all shall be raised out of their Graves, yet all shall not be raised alike.