[ 1139] Resurrection of the Just, asserted.
TRees and other Vegetables in the Winter time,* 1.1 appear to the eyes and view of all men, as if they were withered and quite dead; yet when the Spring time comes, they become alive again, and (as before) do bring forth their buds, blos••oms, leaves and fruit; the Reason is, because the body, grain, and arms of the Tree are all joyned and fastned to the root, where the sap and moisture lies all the Winter time, and from thence by reason of so ••ear conjunction, it is de∣rived in the Spring-time to all the parts of the Tree: Even so the bodies of Men have their Winter also,* 1.2 and that is in Death, in which time they are turned in∣to dust, and so remain for a time dead and rotten; yet in the Spring-time, that is, in the last day, at the Resurrection of all Flesh, then by means of the mysticall Union with Christ, his divine and quickning Virtue, shall stream and flow from