The works of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…The workes of the reuerend and faithfull seruant af Iesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…

As herbs in time of winter seem dead, and yet in the spring time sprout again, by reason of that sap, that lay hidden in the root; and as the bodies of the faithful seem utterly to perish, when they are in the earth, and yet in the last day shall rise again, through that seed which is given in Christ: even so the Israelites, who in time of their banishment, seemed to die as winter herbs, and to perish as dead bodies, should be brought home again, and restored to their former liberty. Which place could not but show the return of the people under the type of the resurrection, in that the Prophet saith, Even with this body shall they rise. Notable is that place, Daniel 12. 2. Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth, shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to perpetual shame and contempt. Whereunto agreeth that saying of our Saviour Christ, Joh. 5. 28. Marvel not at this: for the hour shall come, in which all that are in the graves, shall hear his voice. 29. And they shall come forth that have done good, unto the resurrection of life: but they that have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation. Now when we shall see that there is nothing more clear of the doctrine of faith, contained in the new Testament, than that of the resurrection, and that there is no new doctrine in the same, but it is also in the old Testament; although indeed that is more manifestly, and in more perfect beauty set down by the Prince of Prophets, than by the Prophets his forerunners; what shall we say there is in the new Testament not proved in some measure already in the old? The Jews believed no one article more, than that of the resurrection, as may appear by that ready answer of Martha, Joh, 12 24. at what time our Saviour Christ came to raise up Lazarus her brother: for he saying unto her in the verse going before, Thy brother shall rise again, by and by she answered: I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection of the last day. Again, we read Act. 23. 8. that the Pharisees confessed the resurrection.

As hearbes in time of winter seeme dead, and yet in the spring time sprout againe, by reason of that sappe, that lay hidden in the roote; and as the bodies of the faithfull seeme vtterly to perish, when they are in the earth, and yet in the last day shall rise againe, through that seede which is giuen in Christ: euen so the Israelites, who in time of their banishment, seemed to die as winter hearbes, and to perish as dead bodies, should bee brought home againe, and restored to their former libertie. Which place could not but shew the returne of the people vnder the type of the resurrectiō, in that the Prophet saith, Euen with this bodie shall they rise. Notable is that place,