1. They shall be raised Immortal and Incorruptible Bodies. While they lived with us they were always mortal, and did administer matter of fe•r unto us, while we often said, […] thought, What if my Husband should die? or what i• my Father or Mother should die? These were fretting fears, and caused many distracting Cares, or troubled us sitting at our Table, or lying in our Beds, because we knew they were always subject to Death, and liable to its stroke, and we kn•w not how soon (tho in Health) they might be taken from us; and so the fears of their dying abated our Comfort in th m while they were living, because we looked upon them as dying Comforts, and going from us, whilst they were with us. But when the•, live again, they shall die no more, Death sh•ll have no more dominion over them: Then th•y shall be above the stroke of death and the fears thereof, and it shall be no more a King of Terrors unto them: But as Christ their He•d hath said, Rev. 1.18. I am he that liveth, and was dead, and behold I am alive for evermore. Amen; so all these his Members shall say, We are they that live, and were dead, and behold we are alive for evermore. Amen. This is truth, so it is. When Death came in by Sin, all mankind became subject unto Death: When Sin was turned out by death, and these Bodies shall be raised, no more polluted with it, they shall be as free from ⟨p. 167⟩Death as they shall from Sin; before they did die, they were to die: When they were dead, and shall live again, Death hath done its worst, hath done its all, and hath no more that it can do. Death did conquer them, and laid and kept them Prisoners in the Grave; but when they shall be raised to Life, and redeemed from the Grave, they sh•ll conquer Death, and then this last Enemy shall be destroyed, and in the morning of the Resurrection these revived Bodies, united to their Souls, shall sing that triumphant Song, O Death where is thy sting! O Grave where is thy victory? Death and Grave did swallow us up, but now the Destroyers are destroyed, the Spoilers are spoiled, and both are swallowed up in victory. Thus the Bodies that were sown in corruption, shall be raised in incorruption, 1 Cor. 15.42.54, 55. then Mortality shall be swallowed up of Life, 2 Cor. 5.4.
1. They shall be raised Immortal and Incorruptible Bodies. While they lived with us they were always mortal, and did admi•ister matter of fe•r unto us, while we of•en said, 〈…〉 thought, What if my Husband should die? or what i• my Father or Mother should die? These were fretting fears, and caused many distr•cting Cares, or troubled us sitting at our Table, or lying in our Beds, because we knew they were always subject to Death, and li•ble to its stroke, and we kn•w not how soon (tho in Health) they might be taken from us; and so the fe•rs of their dying abated our Comfort in th m while they were living, because we looked upon th•m as dying Comforts, and going from us, whilst they were with us. But when the•, live again, they shall die no more, Death sh•ll have no more dominion over them: Then th•y shall be above the stroke of death and the fears thereof, and it shall be no more a King of Terrors unto them: But as Christ their He•d hath said, Rev. 1.18. I am he that liveth, and was dead, and behold I am alive for evermore. Amen; so all these his Members shall say, We are they that live, and were dead, and behold we are alive for evermore. Amen. This is truth, so it is. When Death came in by Sin, all mankind became subject unto Death: When Sin was turned out by death, and these Bodies shall be raised, no more polluted with it, they shall be as free from ⟨p. 167⟩Death as they shall from Sin; before they did die, they were to die: When they were dead, and shall live again, Death hath done its worst, hath done its all, and hath no more that it can do. Death did conquer them, and laid and kept them Prisoners in the Grave; but when they shall be raised to Life, and redeemed from the Grave, they sh•ll conquer Death, and then this last Enemy shall be destroyed, and in the morning of the Resurrection these revived Bodies, united to their Souls, shall sing that triumphant Song, O Death where is thy sting! O Grave where is thy victory? Death and Grave did swallow us up, but now the Destroyers are destroyed, the Spoilers are spoiled, and both are swallowed up in victory. Thus the Bodies that were sown in corruption, shall be raised in incorruption,
