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The four last things viz. death, judgment, heaven, hell, practically considered and applied in…
The four last things viz. death, judgment, heaven, hell, practically considered and applied in several discourses / by William Bates.
London: printed for Brabazon Aylmer, 1691
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Whilst the Bodies of the Saints remain in the Grave, they seem to be absolutely under the Power of Death. The World is a Golgotha, filled with the Monuments of its Victories. And it may be said to this our last Enemy, in the Words of the Prophet to the bloody King, Hast thou killed, and taken Possession? But we are assured by an infallible Word, that the Power of Death shall be abolished, and the Bodies of the Saints be revived incorruptible and immortal.
Whilst the Bodies of the Saints remain in the Grave, they seem to be absolutely under the Power of Death. The World is a Golgotha, fill'd with the Monuments of its Victories. And it may be said to this our last Enemy, in the Words of the Prophet to the bloody King, Hast thou killed, and taken Possession? But we are assur'd by an infallible Word, that the Power of Death shall be abolish'd, and the Bodies of the Saints be reviv'd incorruptible and immortal.
The Resurrection is a Terra incognita to the wisest Heathens; a Doctrine peculiar to the Gospel: some Glimmerings they had of the Soul's Immortality, without which all Virtue had been extinguished in the World, but no conjecture of the reviving of the Body. But Reason assists Faith in this point, both as to the Will of God, and his Power for the performing it. I will glance upon the natural Reasons that induce the considering Mind to receive this Doctrine, and more largely show how the Resurrection of the ⟨p. 59⟩Just is assured by our Redeemer.
The Resurrection is a Terra incognita to the wisest Heathens; a Doctrine peculiar to the Gospel: some Glimmerings they had of the Soul's Immortality, without which all Vertue had been extinguish'd in the World, but no conjecture of the reviving of the Body. But Reason assists Faith in this point, both as to the Will of God, and his Power for the performing it. I will glance upon the natural Reasons that induce the considering Mind to receive this Doctrine, and more largely shew how the Resurrection of the ⟨p. 59⟩