The mourners cordial against excessive sorrow discovering what grounds of hope Gods people have…

1. The Happy Resurrection which all those that sleep in Christ shall partake in. It is true, all the Dead, both good and bad shall rise again; but ungodly men have no hope in the Resurrection: nor yet their friends for them on this account; because their rising is only in order to their having the more fearful fall: whereas the Resurrection of the Just is a Doctrine full of all Consolation this therefore is urged, context, verse, 14▪ them that Sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. And it is greatly enlarged upon, in▪ 1. Cor. 15, Where both the thing it self is asserted, and the precious qualities of it are declared. For Gods people to think with full persuasion that these very bodies which we had been so intimate withal, and of whose Communion we are now deprived shall not only rise, but so rise as is describe•, verse, 4•.43. Changed so exceedingly for the better, is a very precious thought: the Psalmist thought this truth believed and pondered by him, was enough to make his flesh to rest in hope, Psal. 16.••.10. he thought he could dye cheerfully: well then may we quiet ourselves in hope, concerning them, by observing and believing ⟨p. 65⟩what a change for the better shall then be made.

1. The Happy Resurrection which all those that sleep in Christ shall partake in. It is true, all the Dead, both good and bad shall rise again; but ungodly men have no hope in the Resurrection: nor yet their friends for them on this account; because their rising is only in order to their having the more fearful fall: whereas the Resurrection of the Just is a Doctrine full of all Consolation this therefore is urged, context, verse, 14▪ them that Sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. And it is greatly enlarged upon, in▪ 1. Cor. 15