St. Augustine, Of the citie of God vvith the learned comments of Io. Lod. Viues. Englished by I.H.

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Title: St. Augustine, Of the citie of God vvith the learned comments of Io. Lod. Viues. Englished by I.H.
Author: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Publication: London :: Printed by George Eld,; 1610.
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Whether Infants shall rise againe in the stature that they died in. CHAP. 14.

NOw as touching infants, I say they shall not rise againe with that littlenesse of bodie in which they died: the sudden and strange power of GOD shall giue them a stature of full growth. For Our Sauiours words, There shall not one heire of our heads perish, doe onely promise them all that they had before, not ex∣cluding an addition of what they had not before. The infant wanted the per∣fection of his bodies quantity (as euery (a) perfect infant wanteth) that is, it was not come to the full height and bignesse, which all are borne to haue, and haue at their birth, potentially (not actually) as all the members of man are potentially in the generatiue sperme, though the child may want some of them (as namely the teeth) when it is borne. In which hability of substance, that which is not ap∣parant vntill afterwards, lieth (as one would say) wound vppe before, from the first originall of the sayd substance. And in this hability, or possibility, the in∣fant may bee sayd to bee tall, or low already, because hee shall prooue such here∣after. Which may secure vs from all losse of body or part of body in the resur∣rection: for if wee should be made all a like, neuer so tall, or giantlike, yet such as were reduced from a taller stature vnto that, should loose no part of their bo∣die: for Christ hath sayd they should not loose an haire. And as for the meanes of ad∣dition, how can that wondrous worke-man of the world want fit substance to ad where he thinketh good?

L. VIVES.

EUery (a) perfect infant] Euery thing hath a set quantity which it cannot exceed, and hath a power to attaine to it, from the generatiue causes whereof the thing it selfe is produced: by which power, if it be not hindered, it dilateth it selfe gradually in time▪ till it come to the ful∣nesse, where it either resteth, or declineth againe as it grew vppe. This manner of augmen∣tation proceedeth from the qualities that nature hath infused into euery thing, and neither from matter nor forme.