A85327:81
Faith in five fundamental principles, strongly fortified against the diabolical, atheistical, blasphemous batteries of…Faith in five fundamentall principles, strongly fortified against the diabolical, atheisticall, blasphemous batteries of…
Faith in five fundamental principles, strongly fortified against the diabolical, atheistical, blasphemous batteries of these times Serving for the conviction of opposers, the satisfaction of doubters, and the confirmation of believers. In a conference which a godly independent minister and a godly Presbyterian minister had with a doubting Christian. By E.F. a seeker of the truth.Faith in five fundamentall principles, strongly fortified against the diabolical, atheisticall, blasphemous batteries of these times Serving for the conviction of opposers, the satisfaction of doubters, and the confirmation of believers. In a conference which a godly independent minister and a godly Presbyterian minister had with a doubting Christian. By E.F. a seeker of the truth.
London: printed for John Wright, 1650
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Chris. But Sir, can you show me any resemblance of the resurrection in nature.
Chris. But Sir, can you shew me any resemblance of the resurrection in nature.
Inde. Yea, we have many resemblances thereof in nature, for what doth the world daily, in the elements and creatures thereof, but imitate our Resurrection; as for example, do we not see by the degrees of times, the withering and failing of the leaves from the trees, the intermission of their fruits &c. And behold upon the sudden, from a dry and dead tree, by a kind of Resurrection the leaves break forth again, the fruits wax bigh and ripe, and the whole tree apparelled with a fresh beauty; consider we also the little seed, whereout the tree ariseth, and let us comprehend if we can, how in that smallness of seed, so mighty a tree can be where were the Wood, the Bark, the glory of the beams, the plenty of the fruit, when we first sowed it, when we first threw it into the ground, were any of these things apparent? no they were not, what marvel is it then, if of the dust of the earth, God at his pleasure remark man, when from the smallest seeds he is able to produce so big a tree; do we not also see the dying of the day daily into night, and freshly arising again in the morning, as if it had never dyed. Again, do we not see that before the Corn can grow and bear fruit, it must be ⟨p. 51⟩first cast into the ground, and there rot; and even as it springeth up again, and the Lord giveth to every grain its own body, even so at the Resurrection shall every man be raised up with his own body. And again, both Philosophers and Divines tell us, that the Phoenix is first consumed to ashes by the heat of the Sun, and that afterwards of her ashes ariseth a young one. Lastly, to mention no more, the swallows, worms, and Fishes, which have lain dead in the winter; yet in the spring time, by virtue of the heat of the Sun, they revive again; thus you see that the whole Creation doth as it were writ a Commentary, to give us assurance of the Resurrection of the dead, and so I hope this may suffice to assure you of the Resurrection.