The duty of self-denial briefly opened and urged. By Thomas Watson, minister of the…

3. The Doctrine of the Resurrection. That the body interred, nay crumbled into a Thousand Fractions, and the Ashes scattered in the Air, should rise again, is above Reason to ⟨p. 8⟩imagine. The Epicureans and Stoics derided Paul when he preached to them of the Resurrection, Acts 17.32. Here Reason must be captivated. John 5.28. Marvel not at this, for the hour is coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth^*. The Chemist can out of several metals mingled together, extract the one from the other, the Silver from the Gold, the Alchemy from the Silver, and can reduce every metal to its own species. So when the bodies of men are commixed with other Substances, the wise God can make a sudden extraction, and clothe every Soul with its own Body; did not the same numerical Body rise, it would be rather a Creation than a Resurrection^*. Acts 26.8, Why should it be thought incredible that God should raise the dead? God can do it because of his Power, Mat. 22.29. And he cannot but do it because of his Truth. ⟨p. 9⟩^*The Doctrines of Faith do not oppose Reason, but transcend it.

3. The Doctrine of the Resurrection. That the body interred, nay crumbled into a Thousand Fractions, and the Ashes scattered in the Air, should rise again, is above Reason to ⟨p. 8⟩imagine. The Epicureans and Stoicks derided Paul when he preached to them of the Resurrection,