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spirit_n	dead_a	life_n	live_v	7,322	5	6.0283	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85327	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.	Fisher, Edward, fl. 1627-1655.	1650 (1650)	Wing F993; Thomason E1375_2; ESTC R209221	23,410	56

need of the body nay may he not hence conclude more then this namely for the soul to worke and doe well it ought either to be without the body or else to be utterly unsubject to the body and that the full and perfect life of the soul is the full and utter with-drawing thereof from the body and whatsoever the body is made of for though the soul be the forme of the body yet it being no materiall forme the more it is discharged of the matter the more it retaines its own peculiar form To conclude then seeing that the nature the nourishment and the actions of our soules are so far different from the nature nourishment and actions of our bodyes and from all that is done or wrought by our bodies can there be any thing more childish then to imagine our soules to bee mortall because of the mortality of our bodies And now my good friend I hope by this time your soul hath so beheld her selfe in the glass of her own marvelous actions that she will henceforth conclude her selfe to bee immortall Touching the Resurrection of the body Christ WEll Sir I doe acknowledge that you have very sufficiently proved the immortality of the soul and now if Mr. B. will be pleased to prove the Resurrection of the body then wee shall have done Inde Surely friend the Scripture is exceeding full and cleare for this point and therefore I pray you first of all consider that Job saith in plaine termes Job 19. 25. I know my redeemer liveth and that hee shall stand at the latter day upon the earth and though after my skin wormes destroy my body yet in my flesh I shall see God Now doth not this Scripture plainly hold forth under us the certainty of the Resurrection of the body in that this holy man doth professe he doth beleeve that he shall see God with these very eyes at that day And I would also intreat you to consider that the prophet Isai saith Chapter 26 19. Thy dead men shall live c. In which words the prophet speakes of the Resurrection of the Saints giving us to understand that all those Saints who dye and whose bodies are layd in the dust all those shall certainly rise againe to life And I would also beseech you to consider that in Ezek. 37. the Prophet speakes most excellency of the Resurrection of the dead in shewing that a spirit of life and power shall come upon the dry bones and dust of the Saints and that they shall live in the presence of God And I would also intreat you seriously to consider that the prophet Daniel telleth us that many who sleep in the dust shall awake Some to everlasting life and some to everlasting shame and contempt And surly our Saviour doth confirme the same by uttering almost the same words Joh. 5. 28. 29. saying They that are in the Graves shall here the voyce of the Son of man and shall come forth they that have done good to the resurrection of life and they that have done evill to the resurrection of condemnation And consider I beseech you that Jesus Christ himselfe is risen from the dead and doubtlesse he did not rise as a private person he did not rise privately for himselfe but as a publike person representing all the faithfull and hence it is that the Apohle saith 1 Cor. 15. 13. If there be no resurrecteon of the dead then is Christ not risen And againe in the same Chapter verse 19. he concluds that if there be no resurrection of the dead then the faithfull are of all men most miserable But saith the same Apostle to the comfort of the Thessalonians who seemed to make some question of the Resurrection if we beleeve that Jesus Christ dyed and rose againe even so them also that 1 Thes 4. 29. sleep in Jesus Christ will he bring with him And I beseech you also to consider that it is said Revel 20. 21 15. And I saw the dead both great and small stand before God and the Sea gave up her dead which were in her and death and hell delivered up the dead To conclude I would pray you to minde the Argument which our Saviour useth to prove the Resurrection of the dead Mat 22. 32. in saying God is the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob. And God is not the God of the dead but of the living But he should not be the God of Abraham Isaac and Jocob if they should not rise againe from the dead many other places of Scripture might be brought for the further confirmation of this truth if it were needfull and especially out of the new Testament for in very deed there is no Doctrine more plainly and fully taught in the new Testament then the Doctrine of the Resurection and therefore unlesse we will make both Christ and his Apostles lyers and all the Ministers of the Gospell Cheaters Juglers and Deceivers of the people wee must needs acknowledge the Resurrection of the body and soothly if there were no Resurrection the most just and righteous God should seeme to be unjust and unrighteous who many times in the time of this life doth not reward the godly as he hath promised nor punish the wicked as hee hath threatned and hence it is that the Apostle saith 2 Thes 1. 6. it is a righteous thing with God to recompence tribulation to them that trouble the Saints and to them that are troubled rest when the Lord Jesus Christ shall be reveled from Heaven Chris But I cannot conceive how it is possible that when our bodyes are consumed to dust they should bee raised againe and besides some mens body have beene drowned in the Sea and eaten of Fishes how then is it possible that all men should rise again as you say Inde Though it be impossible with men yet it is not impossible with God for with him all things are possible yea not onely possible but also easie and therefore I beseech you be perswaded of it as an undoubted truth that that God who in the beginning was able to create all things of nothing is much more able to make every mans body at the Resurrection of his owne matter for doubtlesse it is a harder matter for him to make man of nothing out of the dust and although untill the day of Judgement the dust of all men buried doe lye in Common together in the bowels of the earth and that also with the dust of beasts yet if a man skillfull in seeds be able to seperate one seed from another and if a man skilfull in mettels be able to seperate and distinguish the earth and dust of Gold from the earth and dust of Silver and so of other mettals then surely the great and wise Creator of man Seeds and Mettals and all things else is able to distinguish the dust of men from the dust of beasts and the dust of one mans body from the dust of another and though the bodies of some men be burnt to ashes and the bodyes of other devoured of wilde beasts and others drowned in the Sea and eaten of Fishes yet God is able and will certainely gather together in one every mans body and they shall all receive that substance which belongeth to them so that there shall not be an heire of their head wanting to any one of them Chris But Sir can you shew me any resemblance of the resurrection in nature Inde Yea wee 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 doe wee not see by the degrees of times the whithering and failing of the leaves from the trees the intermission of their fruits c. And behold upon the suddaine from a dry and dead tree by a kinde of Resurrection the leaves break forth againe the fruits wax bigh and ripe and the whole tree apareled with a fresh beauty consider wee also the little seed whereout the tree ariseth and let us comprehend if wee can how in that smallnesse of seed so mighty a tree can bee where were the Wood the Barke the glory of the beames the plentie of the fruit when we first sowed it when we first threw it into the ground were any of these things apparant no they were not what marvel is it then if of the dust of the earth God at his pleasure remarke man when from the smallest seeds hee is able to produce so bigg a tree doe we not also see the dying of the day daily into night and freshly arising againe in the morning as if it had never dyed Aagin doe we not see that before the Corne can grow and beare fruit it must be first cast into the ground and there rott and even as it springeth up againe and the Lord giveth to every graine it s owne 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 Phenix 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 wormes and Fishes which have layen dead in the winter yet in the spring time by vertue of the heat of the Sun they revive againe thus you see that the whole Creation doth as it were writ a Cmmentary to give us assurance of the Resurrection of the dead and so I hope this may suffice to assure you of the Resurrection Chris Well Gentlemen I must confesse you have said more for the confirmation of the truth of these points then I had thought could have beene said and I hope that my heart shall bee hereby the better establisht therein whilest I live and with many thanks unto you both for your pains I take my leave of you Inde Fare you well good friend and the Lord write the truth of these points In your heart by the power of his owne Spirit Pres The Lord bee with you and grant that what we have said may take deepe impression both in your heart and ours that wee may bee fully confirmed in the truth of these points Amen FINIS