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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31858	Sermons preached upon several occasions by Benjamin Calamy ...; Sermons. Selections	Calamy, Benjamin, 1642-1686.	1687 (1687)	Wing C221; ESTC R22984	185,393	504

the will of God to raise again the same flesh which was laid in the grave and then we may safely have recourse to the Omnipotency of God to confirm and establish our faith of it I conclude this head therefore with that question of St. Paul's Acts 26.8 Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead The change from death to life is not so great as that from nothing into being and if we believe that God Almighty by the word of his power at first made the heavens and the earth of no pre-existent matter what reason have we to doubt but that the same God by that mighty power whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself can also raise to life again those who were formerly alive and have not yet wholly ceased to be And though we cannot answer all the difficulties and objections which the wit of men whose interest it is that their souls should die with their bodies and both perish together hath found out to puzzle this doctrine with though we cannot fully satisfy our minds and reasons about the manner how it shall be done or the nature of those bodies we shall rise with yet this ought not in the least to shake or weaken our belief of this most important Article of our Christian faith Is it not sufficient that an Almighty Being with whom nothing is impossible hath solemnly promised and past his word that he will re-animate and re-enliven our mortal bodies and after death raise us to life again Let those who presume to mock at this glorious hope and expectation of all good men and are continually exposing this doctrine and raising objections against it first try their skill upon the ordinary and daily appearances of nature which they have every day before their eyes let them rationally solve and explain every thing that happens in this world of which themselves are witnesses before they think to move us from the belief of the resurrection by raising some dust and difficulties about it when Omnipotency it self stands engaged for the performance of it Can they tell me how their own bodies were framed and fashioned and curiously wrought Can they give me a plain and satisfactory account by what orderly steps and degrets this glorious and stately structure consisting of so many several parts and members which discovers so much delicate workmanship and rare contrivance was at first erected How was the first drop of bloud made and how came the heart and veins and arteries to receive and contain it of what and by what means were the nerves and fibres made what fixt those little strings in their due places and situations and fitted and adapted them for those several uses for which they serve what distinguisht and separated the brain from the other parts of the body and placed it in the head and filled it with animal spirits to move and animate the whole body How came the body to be fenced with bones and sinews to be cloathed with skin and flesh distinguisht into various muscles let them but answer me these and all the other questions I could put to them about the formation of their own body and then I will willingly undertake to solve all the objections and difficulties that they can raise concerning the resurrection of it But if they cannot give any account of the formation of that body they now live in but are forced to have recourse to the infinite power and wisedom of the first cause the great and sovereign orderer and disposer of all things let them know that the same power is able also to quicken and enliven it again after it is rotted and returned unto dust we must believe very few things if this be a sufficient reason for our doubting of any thing that there are some things belonging to it which we cannot perfectly comprehend or give a rational account of In this state our conceptions and reasonings about the things that belong to the future and invisible world are very childish and vain and we do but guess and talk at random whenever we venture beyond what God hath revealed to us Let us not therefore perplex and puzzle our selves with those difficulties which have been raised concerning this doctrine of the resurrection for it is no absurdity to suppose that an infinite power may effect such things as seem wholly impossible to such finite beings as we are but rather let us hold fast to what is plainly revealed concerning it namely that all those who love and fear God shall be raised again after death the fame men they were before and live for ever with God in unspeakable happiness both of body and soul Thus I have endeavoured to shew the possbility of a resurrection in the strictest sense I now proceed to the second thing I propounded which was II. Since it is certain that the body we shall rise with though it may be as to substance the same with our terrestrial body yet will be so altered and changed in its modes and qualities that it will be quite another kind of body from what it was before To give you a short account of the difference the Scripture makes between a glorified body and this mortal flesh But before I doe this I shall premise this one thing that all our conceptions of the future state are yet very dark and imperfect We are sufficiently assured that we shall all after death be alive again the very same men and persons we were here and that those that have done good shall receive glory and honour and eternal life But the nature of that joy and happiness which is provided for us in the other world is not so plainly revealed this we know that it vastly surpasses all our imaginations and that we are not able in this imperfect state to fansie or conceive the greatness of it we have not words big enough fully to express it or if it were described to us our understandings are too short and narrow to comprehend it And therefore the Scriptures from which alone we have all we know of a future state describe it either first negatively by propounding to us the several evils and inconveniences we shall then be totally freed from or else secondly by comparing the glory that shall then be revealed with those things which men do most value and admire here whence it is called an inheritance a kingdom a throne a crown a sceptre a rich treasure a river of pleasures a splendid robe and an exceeding and eternal weight of glory All which do not signify to us the strict nature of that happiness which is promised us in another world which doth not consist in any outward sensible joys or pleasures But these being the best and greatest things which this world can bless us with which men do ordinarily most admire and value and covet the possession of are made use of to set out to us the transcendent blessedness of