Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses

Whence we may conclude that it is not essential to the resurrection of the body, that every particle of the matter▪ which at any time was part of a human body should be restored to it, when it is raised up from death to life. Were it so, the bodies of men would become of so huge a size, that they would bear no resemblance of the persons. It is sufficient to denominate it the same body that died, when it is risen again; if the body that is razed be formed in its former proportions of the same particles of matter. which at any time were its constituent parts, howsoever it be refined likeas we reckon it is the same body that was pined away by long sickness, which becomes fat and fair again after recovery.

Whence we may conclude that it is not essential to the resurrection of the body, that every particle of the matter▪ which at any time was part of a human body should be restored to it, when it is raised up from death to life. Were it so, the bodies of men would become of so huge a size, that they would bear no resemblance of the persons. It is sufficient to denominate it the same body that died, when it is risen again; if the body that is r•sed be formed in its former proportions of the same particles of matter. which at any time were its constituent parts, howsoever it be refined likeas we reckon it is the sname body that was pined away by long sickness, which becomes fat and fair again after recovery.

Now to this infinite understanding join infinite power, whereby he is able to sub• […] unto himself; and this glorious great work appears most reasonable. If omniscience discover every little particle of dust, […] it is, and how it is to be matched; cannot omnipotence bring the• and join them together in their order? Can the watch-maker take […] the several pieces of a watch, lying in a confused heap before him, and set each in its proper place; and cannot God put the human body into order, of••r its deson! Did he speak this world into being out of nothing; and can he not form man's body out of its pe-existent matter? If he […] things, which be not, as though they were; surely he can call this […] dissolved, to be as they were before the compound was resolved into its parts and principles: Wherefore, God cn raise the dead. And, "Why should it be thought