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A90206 The world to come, or The mysterie of the resurrection opened: in a discourse at Burford in the county of Oxon, upon Acts 24.15. / By John Osborn, minister of the Gospel at Bampton in the bush. As also, in a conference between him and Richard Coppin of Westwell. Osborne, John, lover of the truth as it is in Jesus. 1651 (1651) Wing O526; Thomason E635_1; ESTC R206479 55,151 76

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again y Qui granae seminum mortua putrefacta vivificat per quae in hoe seculo vivas multo magis teipsum exsitabit ut vivas in aeternum August Nor can the resolution of his body into Elements or their separation hinder The Goldsmith by his Art can sunder divers Mettals mingled together the Alchymist out of one draw another shall impotent man do such things and the Omnipotent not be able to separate those Elements into which thy body is changed from those with which it is mixed what ever confusion or mixture there be in the world in respect of us there is none to God all things are obvious to him and distinguished by his wisdome Why should the matter of our bodyes turned to Ayre Water Earth c. lie hid to him to whom the whole world is far less then a little Closet or narrow Chest to the wisest man the World is his Treasury Fire Ayre Earth and Water so many rooms where the matter of our bodys is laid up he knows right well how each part is disposed of where it lies and can bring it forth at his pleasure he can call out can bring forth what over hath been devoured by Beasts eaten by men destroyed by fishes consumed by fire exhaled into ayre converted into earth resolved into water and how ever afterward dispersed into this Universe Neither is there any Den Covert Corner Hole or secret place hidden from the knowledge or beyond the Power of the Creator Though this matter pass into a thousand bodies one after another as if a man be devoured by Beasts they eaten by Men those Men swallowed by Fishes those Fishes again by Men and these resolved into Ayre and other Elements the matter of the first man is not in the dark but in the light to him how many changes soever there be he can restore to him his own the flesh of the dead which is made the flesh of another living man is not so made his flesh but that it may be restored unto the first owner to repair his body in whom it first began to be humane flesh But how shall the man eater be repaired That in him which is exhausted by hunger and exhaled into ayre or any way lost or impaired before his supply from anothers flesh is so laid up in Gods Store-house though mingled with the Elemens or in other bodies God can find it cut and will return it unto him that he needs not that borrowed flesh for his supply there is enough of his own in Gods keeping to make him up a man without being beholding to anorher for the least parcel of his body We must not imagine that whatsoever entreth into the body is turned into the substanc of it for part passeth away into the draught Nor that all that is turned into the substance of the body is permanent and continueth with a man until the day of death and so must rise again and become a part of the body at the day of judgement but every man shall have so much of his own substance as shall make his body perfect though another mans flesh eaten by him be no part thereof And now I suppose it cannot be thought impossible that God should raise the dead whether he will is the main question the Libertines sayes no And why I pray you is not this like to be done Here Object the Devil is changed into an Angel of Light and pleads Scripture or rather wrests it to maintain an Heresie Eccl. 3. 19. That which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts even one thing befalleth them as the one dyeth so dyeth the other yea they have all one breath so that a man hath no preheminence above a beast Beasts dy and rise not again and therefore no Resurrection to be expected by the sons of men These words import no more then a similitude in some Sol. things not in all between a man and a beast one thing befalleth them both that is death and in this a man hath no preheminence above a beast to be free from death the accord is not in all things is evident from v. 21. Who knoweth the Spirit of man that goeth upward and the Spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth They both dy but are not both alike in death this then makes nothing against the Resurrection of the body sith it speaks not any thing of the state of men and beasts after death but onely affirms them both to be mortal 1 Cor. 15. 50. Now this I say Brethren that flesh and blood Object cannot inherit the Kingdom of God Therefore there can be no resurrection of the body consisting of flesh and blood Whereas Paul affirms flesh and blood cannot inherit Sol. the Kingdome of God he means not our bodies simply or according to their substance consisting of flesh and blood as if the nature of flesh and blood were to be abolished and not to enter into the Kingdome of God in the Resurrection but that which before he calles a natural body v. 44 and which is Earthy v. 48. conformed to the Image of the earthly v. 29. that is our bodies as we receive them from the first Adam tainted with sin and subject to infirmities our bodies in weakness vileness corruptibility mortality and as they now are before they be changed these cannot inherit the Kingdome of God this verse is an exegesis or explication of the former As we have borne the Image of the Earthy we shall also bear the Image of the Heavenly As we have been conformable to the first Adam in having natural bodies so we shal be made like the second in having Spiritual bodies and this is necessary because else we cannot inherit the Kingdome of God we must be changed not in substance but quality of natural be made Spiritual of earthy Heavenly of mortal Immortal of corruptible Incorruptible of dishonourable Glorious of weak Powerful of sinful Holy before we are capable of that Heavenly Kingdome and Glorious state of the Saints after the Resurrection and this is evident by what the Apostle adds in the close of this and in other verses following Neither doth corruption inherit Incorruption and v. 51. We shall all be changed and 52. The dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed and v. 53. This corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on Immortality The old bodies shall remain but clothed a new the substance continue but the qualities be changed the same flesh and blood but in a better condition If the souls are now free and blessed denisons of Heaven Object how is it likely they should descend again into these bodies and be again captivated in them Are not our bodies as weights Plummets and Shackles to the soul hindring them in Divine contemplation and Heavenly conversation Our bodies are not naturally a burden offence or hindrance Sol. to the Soul in the discharge of her