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Did they present their Bodies (when alive) a Living Sacrifice, holy, and acceptable unto God, giving up their Bodies wholly to him, to do and suffer what he did call them to, tho' it were to Death? Rom. 12.1. and will he suffer them to remain for ever as Prisoners of Death? and not call them from thence to be partakers of Eternal Life? Did both parts serve and yield Obedience to him, and shall one only be saved and rewarded by him? He was the Redeemer and Sanctifier of both, and he will be the Saviour of both: And if Angels sent from Heaven cannot deliver them out of their Graves, he will come HIMSELF and bring them out. When he would redeem Israel from the Bondage of Egypt, he sent Moses; but to Ransom, Redeem, and set the Bodies of those that died in him from the bonds of Death, with which they are tied hand and foot, it being a Work too great for any mere Creature, he will come himself, and break these bonds, that tho' they be dead, yet they shall live. Christ will not stay, abide, nor rest in Heaven, when the appointed Day is come, till he hath opened their Graves, and brought them forth. To the moderating of our Sorrow, these things concerning his Coming when the Dead shall be raised, are the Ingredients whereof this Cordial is compounded.

Did they present their Bodies (when alive) a Living Sacrifice, holy, and acceptable unto God, giving up their Bodies wholly to him, to do and suffer what he did call them to, tho' it were to Death? Rom. 12.1. and will he suffer them to remain for ever as Prisoners of Death? and not call them from thence to be partakers of Eternal Life? Did both parts serve and yield Obedience to him, and shall one only be saved and rewarded by him? He was the Redeemer and Sanctifier of both, and he will be the Saviour of both: And if Angels sent from Heaven cannot deliver them out of their Graves, he will come HIMSELF and bring them out. When he would redeem Israel from the Bondage of Egypt, he sent Moses; but to Ransom, Redeem, and set the Bodies of those that died in him from the bonds of Death, with which they are tyed hand and foot, it being a Work too great for any meer Creature, he will come himself, and break these bonds, that tho' they be dead, yet they shall live. Christ will not stay, abide, nor rest in Heaven, when the appointed Day is come, till he hath opened their Graves, and brought them forth. To the moderating of our Sorrow, these things concerning his Coming when the Dead shall be raised, are the Ingredients whereof this Cordial is compounded.