A65285:1559
A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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Resp. Argument 1. By Scripture, John 6.44. I will raise him up at the last day. Isa. 25.8. He will swallow up Death in Victory. That is, by delivering our Bodies from the Captivity of the Grave, wherein Death for a time had power over them, 1 Thess. 4.14. Them which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
Resp. Argument 1. By Scripture, Iohn 6.44. I will raise him up at the last day. Isa. 25.8. He will swallow up Death in Victory. That is, by delivering our Bodies from the Captivity of the Grave, wherein Death for a time had power over them, 1 Thess. 4.14. Them which sleep in Iesus will God bring with him.
Argument 2. Christ is risen: Therefore the Bodies of the Saints must rise. Christ did not rise from the Dead as a private Person, but as the public Head of the Church; and the Head being raised, the rest of the Body shall not always lye in the Grave. Christs rising is a Pledge of our Resurrection, 2 Cor. 4.14. Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus, shall raise up us also by Jesus. Christ is called the first Fruits of them that slept, 1 Cor. 15.20. As the first Fruits is a sure Evidence that the Harvest is coming on; so the Resurrection of Christ is a sure Evidence of the rising of our Bodies out of the Grave. Christ cannot be perfect as he is Christ Mystical, unless his Members be raised with him.