The Christian's charter showing the privileges of a believerThe Christian's charter shewing the priviledges of a believer

2. Ex AEquo, in regard of justice▪ and equity; the bodies of the wicked have been weapons of unrighteousness, and have joined with the ⟨p. 173⟩soul in sin; their eyes have been a casement to let in vanity, their hands have been full of bribes, their feet have been swift to shed blood; therefore justice and equity require that they should rise again, and their bodies be punished with their souls. Again, The bodies of the Saints have been members of holiness: their eyes have dropped down tears for sin, their hands have relieved the poor, their tongues have been trumpets of Gods praise, therefore justice and equity require that they should rise again, that their bodies as well as their souls may be crowned: There must be a resurrection, else how should there be a remuneration? We are more sure to arise out of our graves then out of our beds: the bodies of the wicked are locked up in the grave as in a prison, that they may not infest the Church of God; and at the day of judgement they shall be brought ⟨p. 174⟩out of the prison to trial: and the bodies of the Saints are laid in the grave as in a bed of perfume, where they mellow and ripen against the resurrection. Noah's olive-tree springing after the flood, the blossoming of Aaron's dry rod, the flesh and sinews coming to Ezekiel's dry bones, what were these but lively emblems of the resurrection?

2. Ex AEquo, in regard of justice▪ and equity; the bodies of the wicked have been weapons of unrighteousnesse, and have joyned with the ⟨p. 173⟩soul in sinne; their eyes have been a casement to let in vanity, their hands have been full of bribes, their feet have been swift to shed blood; therefore justice and equity require that they should rise again, and their bodies be punished with their souls. Againe, The bodies of the Saints have been members of holinesse: their eyes have dropped down tears for sinne, their hands have relieved the poor, their tongues have been trumpets of Gods praise, therefore justice and equity require that they should rise again, that their bodies as well as their soules may be crown'd: There must be a resurrection, else how should there be a remuneration? We are more sure to arise out of our graves then out of our beds: the bodies of the wicked are lockt up in the grave as in a prison, that they may not infest the Church of God; and at the day of judgement they shall be brought