The harmony of the divine attributes in the contrivance and accomplishment of man's redemption…

and he hath promised what-ever is to be hoped for, in case of Obedience. The Wrath of God is revealed from Heaven, ¹in the Gospel, against all ungodliness, and unrighteousness of Men. And our Saviour hath brought Light and Immortality to light. ²He hath declared the nature and quality of Eternal Life: that it consists in the most perfect acts of our raised and most receptive Faculties, upon the most excellent objects. That it contains perfect Holiness and pure Felicity, being for ever distant from the infirmities and defilements of our mortal state. He hath revealed as the quality, so the extent of it, relating to the Body as well as the Soul. Whereas the Philosophers of all sorts, the Academics, Stoics, Peripatetics, Epicureans, labouring with all the force of their understanding, formed a Felicity according to their Fancies, which was either wholly Sensual, or else but for half of man: For ⟨p. 392⟩of the Resurrection, and consequently the Immortality of the Body, not the least notice for many Ages ever arrived to them; Our Saviour who alone had the words of eternal life, hath promised a Happiness that respects entire man: The Soul and the Body which are his essential parts shall be united and endued with all the glorious qualities becoming the Sons of God. And of all this he hath given to the world the highest assurance: For he verified his Doctrine by his own Example; rising from the Grave, and appearing to his Apostles crowned with Immortality, and visibly ascending before them to Heaven. Since there is no greater Paradox to Reason than the Resurrection, which seemed utterly incredible to men, and not to be the object of a rational desire; God by raising him from the Grave, hath given the most convincing Argument that our Redeemer was sent from him, to acquaint the World with the future state. Thus the Apostle speaks to the Athenians, The times of ignorance God winked at, ³but now commandeth all men eve ry where to repent; because he hath appointed a day, wherein he will judg the World in righteousness, by that Man whom he hath ordained, whereof he hath given assurance unto all Men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. Jesus Christ who was attested from Heaven to be the Son of God by that great and powerful Act, declared the Recompenses that shall attend Men after Death; Therefore a full and perfect assent is due to his Testimony.