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I. Is it nothing for the assuaging of our sorrow, that our Lord will come himself from Heaven, to raise them up out of their Graves? If you say, Who can cause these dry Bones to live, and clothe them with flesh, and cover them both with skin, and bring them out of these deep and dark sleeping places? the Answer is ready, the Lord can: He can, but the Question is, whether he will? he hath declared and promised that he will. He will? While he was on Earth he raised some, but now he is gone to Heaven, and there he doth abide, and except he come from Heaven, the Dead must abide in their Graves. Say you so? weep not: for he HIMSELF will come, and he will surely have them forth. Did he at his first coming die for their Bodies as well as for their Souls, and will he be content to have their Souls only with him in the Heavens, and their Bodies to lie always in the Grave? Did he purchase their Bodies as ⟨p. 178⟩well as their Souls with the price of his own most precious Blood, and will he for ever lose such a part of his purchase? Are not the Bodies as well as the Souls of Believers Christs own by right of Redemption? 1 Cor. 6.20. and will he lose his own so dearly bought for want of looking after them? Hath he redeemed them from Sin and Hell, and will not he redeem them from the Grave? And is not the deliverance out of the Grave called the Redemption of the Body? and do his People and Redeemed ones while they live wait, believe, and hope, and like a Woman in Travel groan for Deliverance, and long for the Blessed Inheritance, and full possession of the Blessed State above both in Body and Soul at the Resurrection, and will he suffer them to be disappointed? Are they Adopted hereunto as well in their Bodies as in their Souls, and did they here receive the Spirit of God as the Pledge and Earnest, and First-fruits of Glory, and shall he let them be for ever without it? Rom. 8.23. Were they Sanctified in their Bodies as well as in their Souls and Spirits? 1 Thes. 5.23. and shall not their sanctified Bodies be glorified Bodies at the coming of Christ? Did their Bodies partake with their Souls in the serving of their God, in Hearing, Praying, and Religious Fasting, and shall not they partake with the Souls in the heavenly and Eternal Reward through' the Riches