Commentary upon the Prophecy of Isaiah

As death then naturally devours and destroys all the race of Adam, so the miseries to which they are subject in this world are forerunners of the same death.¹ Their life therefore is but a kind of death; but in regard that by the redemption wrought by Christ the curse of God is taken away both in these beginnings of death, as also in death it self:² therefore it is rightly said, That all those that are grafted into Christs body live, whilst they die, because all their evils are turned unto their good, Rom. 8.28. Whence it follows that they always come forth as those that are more then conquerors, even out of the very jaws of death; and that till they be fully and wholly knit unto their head. Would we then be esteemed in the number of those that are dead in Christ, of whose life he is the sure guardian? We must then lift up the eyes of our faith above the whole course of nature.

As death then naturallie deuoures and destroyes all the race of Adam, so the miseries to which they are subiect in this world are forerunners of the same death.¹ Their life therefore is but a kind of death; but in regard that by the redemption wrought by Christ the curse of God is taken away both in these beginnings of death, as also in death it selfe:² therefore it is rightlie said, That all those that are grafted into Christes bodie liue, whilest they die, because all their euils are turned vnto their good, Rom. 8.28. Whence it followes that they alwaies come forth as those that are more then conquerors, euen out of the very iawes of death; and that till they be fullie and whollie knit vnto their head. Would wee then be esteemed in the number of those that are dead in Christ, of whose life he is the sure gardian? We must then lift vp the eies of our faith aboue the whole course of nature.

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