Christs temptation and transfiguration practically explained and improved in several sermons /

III. The State of Future Glory and Felicity.

1. The dead in the Lord are not perished, but live for ever with God in Heaven; for here they appear long after their departure hence, Luk. 20. 38. He is not the God of the dead but of the living, for all live unto him. They all live to God though they are ⟨p. 87⟩gone out of the sphere of our commerce, they have another Life with God. Now fix this in your hearts, for many carry it so as if there were no Immortality or Life to come; we do not vanish into the Air when we die; Moses is somewhere, and Elijah somewhere, in the Hand of God, and can appear when God will have them.

1. The dead in the Lord are not perished, but live for ever with God in Heaven; for here they appear long after their departure hence, Luk. 20. 38. He is not the God of the dead but of the living, for all live unto him. They all live to God though they are ⟨p. 87⟩gone out of the sphere of our commerce, they have another Life with God. Now fix this in your hearts, for many carry it so as if there were no Immortality or Life to come; we do not vanish into the Air when we die; Moses is somewhere, and Elias somewhere, in the Hand of God, and can appear when God will have them.

2. The Saints appeared in a true, and in their own Bodies, to establish the Faith of the Resurrection; their bodies were reserved for this use; one of them was already in Glory in soul and body, the other now raised out of the dust after many years Burial; and why cannot God gather up our dust again and enliven it, that we may accompany Christ at his coming.