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,…

Now it is known, that the faith of the Jews was grounded on the word, which as yet was only in the administration of the old Testament, and not in the new: for as yet it was not extant, or in no credit at the least with them: wherefore seeing not only the primitive Church hath believed herein, by the evident light of the new Testament, and the Jews before believed it by the light of the old, it is manifest, that the doctrine of the resurrection is proved in the old: and among many places, this of our Psalm is not the least, where it¹ is said, Thou shalt not leave my soul in grave, nor suffer thine holy one to see corruption. By soul, we must understand, he meaneth his natural life, as it is taken in the Scripture, 1. Cor. 15. 45. where the Apostle borrowing his speech from the second chapter of Genesis and seventh verse saith, The first man Adam was made a living soul: and the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. The reason why he proved the rising again of his flesh, is here drawn from the power of our Saviour Christ, of whom these words are meant, Thou wilt not suffer thine holy one to see corruption, as both Peter in his notable Sermon, Act, 2. and Paul Act. 23. do plainly affirm: for the Apostle saith, that David was buried, and saw corruption, and therefore he spake not this of himself, but of Christ his head, in whom was found no quality of corruption at all: so that David as a member of Christ, gathered this by the eye of faith, that there should come an holy one out of his loins, who by his own mighty power should raise up his own body from seeing any corruption, and by the same power should also raise his body, which should see corruption, that it might rest with his, and be made like his, as we may read, Philip. 3. 20. Our conversation is ⟨p. 182⟩in heaven, from whence we look for the Saviour, even the Lord Jesus Christ. 21. Who shall change our vile bodies, that they may be fashioned like to his glorious bo•ie according to the working, whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. So that the Prophet looketh for a resurrection of the flesh, after it shall be corrupted, contrary to the heretics, who dream of a spiritual resurrection from sin, which by no means can be understood of