2. The corporal resurrection of our bodies at the last day, which is called the second resurrection, which freeth us from the first death.h He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eterra• life, and I •id raise him up at the last day. For this Sacrament signifieth and feeleth unto us that Christ died and rose again for us, and that his ⟨p. 326⟩bflesh quickeneth and nourisheth us unto eternal life, and that therefore our bodies shall surely be raised to eternal life at the last day. For seeing our head is risen, all the members of the body shall likewise surely rise again. For how can those bodies which (being th• weapons of righteousness, Rom. 16. 13. Temples of the Holy Ghost, 1 Cor. 6. 19 and members of Christ) have been* fed and nourished with the Body and Blood of the Lord of life, but be raised up again at the last day? And this is the cause that the bodies of the Saints, being dead, are so reverently buried and laid to sleep in the Lord. And their burial places are termed thec beds and dormitories of the Saints. The Reprobates shall arise at the last day; but by the Almighty Power of Christ, as he is Judge, bringing them as malefactors out of the Gaol, to receive their sentence and deserved execution: but the Elect shall arise by virtue of Christ's Resurrection, and of the Communion which they have with him, as with their Head. And his Resurrection is the† cause and assurance of ours. Thed Resurrection of Christ ⟨p. 327⟩is a Christian's particular faith: the Resurrection of the dead, is the Child of God's chiefest confidence. Therefore Christians in the Primitive Church, were wont to salute one another in the Morning with these Phrases:* The Lord is risen: and the other would answer, True, the Lord is risen indeed.
2. The corporal resurrection of our bodies at the last day, which is called the second resurrection, which freeth us from the first death.h He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eterra• life, and I •id raise him up at the last day. For this Sacrament signifieth and fealeth unto us that Christ died and rose again for us, and that his ⟨p. 326⟩bflesh quickeneth and nourisheth us unto eternal life, and that therefore our bodies shall surely be raised to eternal life at the last day. For seeing our head is risen, all the members of the body shall likewise surely rise again. For how can those bodies which (being th• weapons of righteousness, Rom. 16. 13. Temples of the Holy Ghost, 1 Cor. 6. 19 and members of Christ) have been* fed and nourished with the Body and Blood of the Lord of life, but be raised up again at the last day? And this is the cause that the bodies of the Saints, being dead, are so reverently buried and laid to sleep in the Lord. And their burial places are termed thec beds and dormitories of the Saints. The Reprobates shall arise at the last day; but by the Almighty Power of Christ, as he is Judge, bringing them as malefactors out of the Gaol, to receive their sentence and deserved execution: but the Elect shall arise by virtue of Christ's Resurrection, and of the Communion which they have with him, as with their Head. And his Resurrection is the† cause and assurance of ours. Thed Resurrection of Christ ⟨p. 327⟩is a Christian's particular faith: the Resurrection of the dead, is the Child of God's chiefest confidence. Therefore Christians in the Primitive Church, were wont to salute one another in the Morning with these Phrases:
- hJoh. 6. 54.
- bHinc panis & vinum à veteribus nominantur symbola resurrectionis Conc. Nicaec. Joh. 6. 51. Caro Christi non in •ese, sed in verbo ipsi hypostati•è unito, vivifica est. Cyr. in Joh. 10. 13. Ft quia est propria caro verbi cuncta vivificantis. Synod. Eph. directa fide ad R•ginas. Vivificat 1. Ratione meriti obedientiae, quia Christi caro pro credentibus oblata fuit in sacrificium; 2 Ratione copulationis nostrae cum Christo, quia non possumus ad Deum vitae fontem pertingere, nisi carne illa Christi mediante, & quatenus carni illi quasi membra sumus insiti. Caro non prodest. Joh. 6. 63. i. carnalis opinio non conveniens cum mysterio manducationis carnis Christi.
- *Quomodo negant carnem capacem esse resurrectionis quae sanguine & corpore Christi nutritur? Iren. Lib. 4. Cap. 34.
- cIsa. 26. 19. 20.
- †Christi resurrectio in qua nostra inititur, communis resurrectionis Fide jussor est. Theod.
- dMortuum esse Christum etiam Pagani credunt: resurrexisse verò propria Fides est Christianorum. Aug. l. 16. contra Faust. cap. 19. Tota fiducia Christianorum est resurrectio mortuorum. Tert. l. 5 de resur. Carn.
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