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The blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the Great God our Saviour, Jesus…
The blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the Great God our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Opened & applied, in several sermons. / By Increase Mather, president of Harvard College in Cambridge, and preacher of the Gospel, at Boston, in N.E. ; [Nine lines of Scripture texts]The blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the Great God our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Opened & applied, in several sermons. / By Increase Mather, praesident of Harvard Colledge in Cambridge, and preacher of the Gospel, at Boston, in N.E. ; [Nine lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by Timothy Green for Nicholas Boone, 1701
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1. He has Promised that they shall have a Glorious Resurrection unto Eternal Life. That their Dead bodies shall Rise again. Christ proved against the Sadducees that there shall be a Resurrection of the Dead, because of the Covenant of God. Mat. 22.31 As touching the Resurrection of the Dead, have you not heard that God said, (He said it to Moses in the Bush) I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; he is not the God of the Dead, but of the Living. And therefore because of the Covenant, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob must Rise out of their Graves. Believers have given themselves to God, Body and Soul; they have not only given their Souls but their Bodies also to Christ. So then, God is in Covenant with them in respect of their bodies, as well as of their souls. As for the Soul, that is immortal, and by virtue of the Covenant their Bodies that are Dead, shall be Raised to Life again. And this is a great part of that Blessedness which believers hope for. They have hope towards God that there shall be a Resurrection from the Dead▪ Says Paul, for the hope of the Resurrection of ⟨p. 129⟩the Dead am I called in Question. At the Resurrection, their bodies shall undergo a blessed glorious Change; they shall be made like to the Glorious body of the Son of God. Their bodies shall then be freed from all such Evils as at present they are subject unto. They shall never endure any Pain more, they shall never be subject to any Disease in the least any more. Aye, and they shall not be subject to Mortality any more. Luk. 20 26 The Children of the Resurrection are equal to the Angels of God, neither can they Dye any more. Their bodies are then so Immortalized as that they cannot Die any more. And this Blessedness they shall have at the Appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore Job says, Job 19.25 I know that my Redeemer shall stand on the Earth at the latter Day. And says he, although worms shall after my skin destroy this Body, yet in my Flesh I shall see God, at the latter day. Now that Latter Day is the same with the Day of the Appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ. Then is it that Job and all believers shall have a Glorious Resurrection vouchsafed to them.