V. Must we Dye? Yet let us Rejoice in a Redeemer, that will one Day save us ⟨p. 31⟩from Death Dying Saint; Let that be thy dying Song; Job 19.25. I know that my Redeemer Lives; and that He shall stand at the Latter day over the Earth; And He shall Raise me out of the Earth. O Joyful Tidings! The Resurrection was of old called, The Consolation. Tho' the Pagans were Strangers to the Mystery, and Scoffers at it, [Witness Plinies flouts, Quae malum, ista dementia est, itorari Vitam Mort!] Yet, The Children of God, even in the Secular Times [Called so, Rom. 16.25. because measured by Jubilees:] of the Old Testament, believed a Resurrection. God promised them a share in the Blessings of, The Kingdom of the Messiah. They Died, before these Promises were accomplished. Hence they inferred, That they must be Raised from death, to Enjoy these Promises. It was a Right Inference! Their Faith was God will Redeem my Soul from the Power of the Grave. But then, the Gospel of the New Testament, has more Conspicuously, more Abundantly, brought Life and Immortality to Light; a Resurrection, that is, to a Life of Immortality. For now we have seen our Lord JESUS CHRIST Himself Risen to such a ⟨p. 32⟩Life; and so Risen, as to leave no Room for doubt, that He will also Raise His Followers, to such a Life. He has told us, [For so it should be rendered:] He that Believeth on me, shall not die for ever: Tho' he Dye, he shall not lie dead for ever. And we have, in His Resurrection, an Irrefragable Proof, That He has not therein Deceived us. This, This then shall be the Triumph of our Souls: LORD, When wilt Thou come, and make the Graves yield up their Dead, and deliver the Lawful Captive, and the Prey of the Terrible! Rejoice not against us, O our Enemy, Death; For, tho' we Fall, we shall Rise again; when we sit in Darkness, the Lord shall be a Light unto us! Wherefore, Comfort one another with these Words. Among the Primitive Christians, they would often have the Portraits of Enoch, of Lazarus, of Jonah, and of Ezekiels Vision, on their Caemeterial Cells, to Proclaim their Comfortable Faith of the Resurrection, to sweeten their Habitation in the Dry Pit in the Land where the Sun shines not. But on the Sepulchral Monuments, it was usual for others of them to inscribe the First Letters in the Name of our Saviour. ⟨p. 33⟩I ask not for those Actions, but for our Following of the Faith which produced them!
V. Must we Dye? Yet let us Rejoyce in a Redeemer, that will one Day save us ⟨p. 31⟩from Death Dying Saint; Let that be thy dying Song; Job 19.25. I know that my Redeemer Lives; and that He shall stand at the Latter day over the Earth; And He shall Raise me out of the Earth. O Joyful Tidings! The Resurrection was of old called, The Consolation. Tho' the Pagans were Strangers to the Mystery, and Scossers at it, [Witness Plinies flouts, Quae malum, ista dementia est, itorari Vitam Morte!] Yet, The Children of God, even in the Secular Times [Called so, Rom. 16.25. because measured by Jubilees:] of the Old Testament, believed a Resurrection. God promised them a share in the Blessings of, The Kingdom of the Messiah. They Died, before these Promises were accomplished. Hence they inferred, That they must be Raised from death, to Enjoy these Promises. It was a Right Inference! Their Faith was God will Redeem my Soul from the Power of the Grave. But then, the Gospel of the New Testament, has more Conspiciously, more Abundantly, brought Life and Immortality to Light; a Resurrection, that is, to a Life of Immortality. For now we have seen our Lord JESUS CHRIST Himself Risen to such a ⟨p. 32⟩Life; and so Risen, as to leave no Room for doubt, that He will also Raise His Followers, to such a Life. He has told us, [For so it should be rendred:] He that Believeth on me, shall not die for ever: Tho' he Dye, he shall not lie dead for ever. And we have, in His Resurrection, an Irrefragable Proof, That He has not therein Deceived us. This, This then shall be the Triumph of our Souls: LORD, When wilt Thou come, and make the Graves yield up their Dead, and deliver the Lawful Captive, and the Prey of the Terrible! Rejoyce not against us, O our Enemy, Death; For, tho' we Fall, we shall Rise again; when we sit in Darkness, the Lord shall be a Light unto us! Wherefore, Comfort one another with these Words. Among the Primitive Christians, they would often have the Pourtraicts of Enoch, of Lazarus, of Jonas, and of Ezekiels Vision, on their Caemeterial Cells, to Proclaim their Comfortable Faith of the Resurrection, to sweeten their Habitation in the Dry Pit in the Land where the Sun shines not. But on the Sepulchral Monuments, it was usual for others of them to inscribe the First Letters in the Name of our Saviour. ⟨p. 33⟩I ask not for those Actions, but for our Following of the Faith which produced them!
