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

2. The special reason of the Saints Resurrection is their Union with Christ: for he is not only our Redeemer and Prince, but our second Adam, the same in Grace as the first was in Nature. Now as from the first the Soul was destroyed by Sin, and the Body by Death, so the second restores them both to their Primitive state; the one by Grace, the other by a Glorious Resurrection. Accordingly the Apostle saith,¹ that by Man came Death, and by Man came the Resurrection from the Dead. Christ removed the Moral and Natural impossibility of our Glorious Resurrection: the Moral, by the infinite merit of his Death, whereby Divine Justice is satisfied, that otherwise would not permit the Guilty to be restored to Eternal Life: and the Natural, by his rising from the Grave to a Glorious Immortality. ⟨p. 461⟩For his Infinite Power can do the same in all Believers. 'Tis observable, the Apostle infers the Resurrection of Believers from that of Christ, not only as the Cause, but the Original Example. For the Members must be conformed to the Head, the Children to their Father, the younger to the elder Brother. Therefore he is called, the first-fruits of them that sleep: ²and the first begotten of the Dead. ³In Christ's Resurrection ours is so fully assured, that the event is infallible. Now no less than Infinite Power is requisite to raise the Bodies of the Saints from the dust, and to transform them into the similitude of Christs.

2. The special reason of the Saints Resurrection is their Union with Christ: for he is not only our Redeemer and Prince, but our second Adam, the same in Grace as the first was in Nature. Now as from the first the Soul was destroyed by Sin, and the Body by Death, so the second restores them both to their Primitive state; the one by Grace, the other by a Glorious Resurrection. Accordingly the Apostle saith,¹ that by Man came Death, and by Man came the Resurrection from the Dead. Christ removed the Moral and Natural impossibility of our Glorious Resurrection: the Moral, by the infinite merit of his Death, whereby Divine Justice is satisfied, that otherwise would not permit the Guilty to be restor'd to Eternal Life: and the Natural, by his rising from the Grave to a Glorious Imortality.