54. Why doubt that body shall rise again
from body? Grain is sown, grain comes up again: fruit is
sown, fruit comes up again; but the grain is clothed with blossom and
husk. “And this mortal must put on immortality, and this
corruptible must put on incorruption.” 1 Cor. xv. 53. The blossom of the resurrection is
immortality, the blossom of the resurrection is incorruption. For
what is more fruitful than perpetual rest? what supplied with richer
store than everlasting security? Here is that abundant fruit, by
whose increase man’s nature shoots forth more abundantly after
death.