A65285:1580
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. When the Bodies of the Saints are in the Sepulchre, their Souls are in Paradise▪ The Soul doth not sleep in the Body, but returns to God that gave it, Eccles. 12.7. The Soul immediately partakes of those Joys the blessed Angels do: When the Body returns to dust, the Soul returns to rest: When the Body is sleeping, the Soul is triumphing: When the Body is buried, the Soul is crowned: As the Spies were sent before to taste of the Fruits of the Land, Numb. 13. so at Death the Soul is sent before into Heaven, to taste of the Fruit of the Holy Land.
4. When Gods time is come, the Graves shall deliver up their Dead, Rev. 20.13. When the Judge sends, the Goaler must deliver up his Prisoners. As God said to Jacob, Gen. 46.4. I will go down with thee into Egypt, and I will surely bring thee up again. So the Lord will go down with us into the Grave, and will surely bring us up again.
4. When Gods time is come, the Graves shall deliver up their Dead, Rev. 20.13. When the Judge sends, the Goaler must deliver up his Prisoners. As God said to Iacob, Gen. 46.4. I will go down with thee into Egypt, and I will surely bring thee up again. So the Lord will go down with us into the Grave, and will surely bring us up again.