The husbandmans calling showing the excellencies, temptations, graces, duties &c. of the Christian husbandmanThe husbandmans calling shewing the excellencies, temptations, graces, duties &c. of the Christian husbandman

Hence again, he learns something of the last Resurrection, 1 Cor. 15.35. But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it dy•,—It is sown in Corruption, it is raised in incorruption. The Husbandman remembers, he sowed his Corn white and withered, but it comes up fresh and green: it lay in the ground, till it seemed lost and perished, but that dying was to give it life; and that corn, which to his sense was dead and gone, ere long to his sense is revived, and in greater glory than before. And is it thus, saith the Husbandman? Why, then this withered body of mine, is but sown in the grave, to spring up again without these imperfections. It is to be sown deeper, because it must spring up higher, than my corn: what though I dye, consume and perish to the eye of sen•, yet though worms destroy this body, in my flesh shall I see God, and though I live and dye in dishonour, yet I shall rise again in honour. He that raises up my corn, can raise up me. He can effect one Resurrection at last, that causes a Resurrection in my field every year. How many thousands of men and women, shall spring up then out of this one Church Yard? ⟨p. 151⟩You shall see no less, I believe, than fifty or threescore thousand come up, at the spring of the Resurrection in this one Church Yard. How dreadful then will the whole appearance be at that great day?

Hence again, he learns something of the last Resurrection, 1 Cor. 15.35. But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickned, except it dy•,—It is sown in Corruption, it is raised in incorruption. The Husbandman remembers, he sowed his Corn white and withered, but it comes up fresh and green: it lay in the ground, till it seem'd lost and perish't, but that dying was to give it life; and that corn, which to his sence was dead and gone, e're long to his sense is revived, and in greater glory than before. And is it thus, saith the Husbandman? Why, then this withered body of mine, is but sown in the grave, to spring up again without these imperfections. It is to be sown deeper, because it must spring up higher, than my corn: what though I dye, consume and perish to the eye of sen, yet though worms destroy this body, in my flesh shall I see God, and though I live and dye in dishonour, yet I shall rise again in honour. He that raises up my corn, can raise up me. He can effect one Resurrection at last, that causes a Resurrection in my field every year. How many thousands of men and women, shall spring up then out of this one Church Yard?