2. This Doctrine is metaphorically true, also God raiseth from the dead, and that again in a twofold extremity, external and internal, external troubles, 1the Scripture doth delight to represent the great and extreme troubles of the Church, when it hath visible help or deliverance, under the name of death, Isaiah 26. 19. We have the Prophet comforting the Church in her desolate estate. Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. It is true many Interpreters expound this, as if properly and immediately spoken of the Resurrection: and it should seem our Translators understood it so, when they ⟨p. 327⟩render it (together with my body,) but the context maketh it clear: God speaketh of their deliverance from captivity, wherein he calleth his people, Cadaver meum, my dead body, because in outward appearance so; now the reason of this may be, because Gods power would be to them, as the dew, to herbs ready to perish, which doth revive them. Thus their deliverance out of their calamity is described, Hosea 6. 2. After two days he will revive us, in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. This Text is literally and immediately to be understood of the Jews, yet by consequence it may be applied to Christ; so that it argueth the calumniating spirit of Hunnius who would make Calvin to judaize because he doth not expound it as a promise of Christs Resurrection. God will do with his Church as he did with the body of Christ, he would not suffer it to see corruption, but within three days raise it again. Thus saith the Church, though we be in a dead condition, yet he will within two or three days, within a short time revive us again. But above all, you have a most evident allusion to this Ezek. 37. Where the Prophet in a vision saw a Valley full of dry bones; and breath from the Lord brought sinews and flesh upon these bones, and the bones came together and lived. Now what the meaning of this parabolical vision is, appeareth Verse 11. These bones are the whole house of Israel: Behold they say our bones are dried up, our hope is lost, we are cut off from all parts: but saith God, I will open your Graves, and you shall come out.
2. This Doctrine is metaphorically true, also God raiseth from the dead, and that again in a twofold extremity, externall and internall, externall troubles, 1the Scripture doth delight to represent the great and extreame troubles of the Church, when it hath visible help or deliverance, under the name of death, Isaiah 26. 19. We have the Prophet comforting the Church in her desolate estate. Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. It is true many Interpreters expound this, as if properly and immediately spoken of the Resurrection: and it should seem our Translators understood it so, when they ⟨p. 327⟩render it (together with my body,) but the context maketh it cleare: God speaketh of their deliverance from captivity, wherein he calleth his people, Cadaver meum, my dead body, because in outward appearance so; now the reason of this may be, because Gods power would be to them, as the dew, to herbs ready to perish, which doth revive them. Thus their deliverance out of their calamity is described, Hosea 6. 2. After two dayes he will revive us, in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. This Text is literally and immediately to be understood of the Jewes, yet by consequence it may be applyed to Christ; so that it argueth the calumniating spirit of Hunnius who would make Calvin to jadaize because he doth not expound it as a promise of Christs Resurrection. God will do with his Church as he did with the body of Christ, he would not suffer it to see corruption, but within three dayes raise it again. Thus saith the Church, though we be in a dead condition, yet he will within two or three dayes, within a short time revive us again. But above all, you have a most evident allusion to this Ezek. 37. Where the Prophet in a vision saw a Valley full of dry bones; and breath from the Lord brought sinews and flesh upon these bones, and the bones came together and lived. Now what the meaning of this parabolicall vision is, appeareth Verse 11. These bones are the whole house of Israel: Behold they say our bones are dryed up, our hope is lost, we are cut off from all parts: but saith God, I will open your Graves, and you shall come out.
- 12. God raiseth the metaphorically dead, and such who are in any trouble either external or internal.2. God raiseth the metaphorically dead, and such who are in any trouble either externall or internall.
