i. It shall be raised AN ENTIRE AND PERFECT BODY. Not a dust, not an atom, that is necessary to the integration of it, shall be lost: and, though they be scattered up and down the world, and confusedly mixed with other beings; yet, by the omnipotence of God and the ministry of angels, every dust shall be picked up again, and set in its due place and order. To this purpose Tertullian speaks well: Si non integros suscitat Deus, non suscitat mortuos, &c: “If God doth not raise us up entire, he doth
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