Object. 3. * 1.1 If Infants be supposed to arise at the stature of Men, how can theirs be the self-same Bodies they were.
Answ. This is the same Objection that the Infidels made against the Resurrection of the Body, in the Days of Augustin, as may be seen in his Book De Civit. Dei; and it seems the same spirit is now at work in the Quaker. But I answer, Is not George Whitehead's Body which once was an Infant, the same Body still? It is not another Substance, because it's bigger now than it was then. And what if God cause an Infants Bo∣dy to attain Man's Stature in a little time, whilst George Whitehead was long in growing up to it, is the difference here so great as to cast an absur∣dity upon our Doctrine, that in the Resurrection, the Body which died and was buried in weakness and dishonour, shall be raised in Power, and glorified? Nay, rather this idle Objection shews the absurdity of the Quaker, for according to his Reasonings, no Man hath the self-same Body scarce a Year to an end; for from our coming into the World to our going out of it, we either grow, or decay, according to that most true Verse.
Nascentes morimur finisque ab origine pendet.
Being born we die, our ends hang on our Birth.