Faith in five fundamental principles, strongly fortified against the diabolical, atheistical, blasphemous batteries of…Faith in five fundamentall principles, strongly fortified against the diabolical, atheisticall, blasphemous batteries of…

But saith the same Apostle to the comfort of the Thessalonians, who seemed to make some question of the Resurrection, if we believe that Jesus Christ dyed and rose again, even so them also that¹ sleep in Jesus Christ will he bring with him. And I beseech you also to consider, that it is said Revel. 20. 21, 15. And I saw the dead both great and small stand before God, and the Sea gave up her dead which were in her, and death and hell delivered up the dead. To conclude, I would pray you to mind the Argument which our Saviour useth to prove the Resurrection of the dead Mat 22. 32. in saying, God is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. But he should not be the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; if they should not rise again from the dead, many other places of Scripture might be brought for the further confirmation of this truth if it were needful, and especially out of the new Testament, for in very deed there is no Doctrine more plainly and fully taught in the new Testament, then the Doctrine of the Resurrection; and therefore unless we will make both Christ and his Apostles liars, and all the Ministers of the Gospel Cheaters, Jugglers ⟨p. 48⟩and Deceivers of the people; we must needs acknowledge the Resurrection of the body; and soothly, if there were no Resurrection, the most just and righteous God should seem to be unjust, and unrighteous, who many times in the time of this life, doth not reward the godly as he hath promised, nor punish the wicked as he hath threatened; and hence it is that the Apostle saith, 2 Thes. 1. 6. it is a righteous thing with God, to recompense tribulation to them that trouble the Saints, and to them that are troubled, rest when the Lord Jesus Christ shall be revealed from Heaven.

But saith the same Apostle to the comfort of the Thessalonians, who seemed to make some question of the Resurrection, if we beleeve that Jesus Christ dyed and rose againe, even so them also that¹ sleep in Jesus Christ will he bring with him. And I beseech you also to consider, that it is said Revel. 20. 21, 15. And I saw the dead both great and small stand before God, and the Sea gave up her dead which were in her, and death and hell delivered up the dead. To conclude, I would pray you to minde the Argument which our Saviour useth to prove the Resurrection of the dead Mat 22. 32. in saying, God is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. But he should not be the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jocob; if they should not rise againe from the dead, many other places of Scripture might be brought for the further confirmation of this truth if it were needfull, and especially out of the new Testament, for in very deed there is no Doctrine more plainly and fully taught in the new Testament, then the Doctrine of the Resurection; and therefore unlesse we will make both Christ and his Apostles lyers, and all the Ministers of the Gospell Cheaters, Juglers