Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

2. The second Scripture to prove the Resurrection, is in 1 Cor. chap. 15. throughout; It seemeth, that some amongst the Corinthians who called themselves Christians, did deny the Resurrection; now the scope of the chapter is to refu•e this dangerous error, and to prove the truth, which the Apostle doth by several arguments.

2. The second Scripture to prove the Resurrection, is in 1 Cor. chap. 15. thorowout; It seemeth, that some amongst the Corinthians who called themselves Christians, did deny the Resurrection; now the scope of the chapter is to refu•e this dangerous errour, and to prove the truth, which the Apostle doth by several arguments.

1. The first argument is drawn from the Resurrection of Christ; If Christ be risen from the dead, then believers which are his members, shall be raised also; he will not suffer his members to lie for ever rotting in the grave, because his mystical body then would never be grown up ⟨p. 199⟩•nto perfection: Christ is the first fruits of them that sleep, v. 10. As certainly as he was awakened out of his sleep in the grave on the third day, to certainly shall all those that do, or shall sleep in Jesus, be awakened out of their grave at the last day: But Christ is certainly risen from the dead, which the Apostle proves,

1. From the Prediction thereof in the Scriptures, as his death was foretold, so also his resurrection was foretold in the type of Jonah's being ast out of the belly of the whale on the third day.