Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment. By Thomas Vincent, sometime Minister of Maudlins…

1. The first Argument is drawn from the Resurrection of Christ; If Christ be risen from the dead, then believers which are his members, shall be raised also; he will not suffer his members to lie for ever rotten in the grave, because his mystle I body then would never he grown up unto perfection: Christ is the first fruits of them that sleep, V. 10. As certainly as he was awakened out of his sleep in the grave on the third day, so certainly shall all those that do, or shall sleep in Jesus, be awakened out of their grave at the last day: But Christ is certainly risen from the dead, which the Apostle proves,

1. From the Prediction thereof in the Scriptures, as his death was foretold, so also his resurrection was foretold in the type of Jonab's being cast out of the belly of the whole on the third day.

2. From the testimony of those persons to whom the Lord Jesus Christ did appear after his Resurrection, namely of Cephas, all the Apostles, above five hundred brethren at once, who law him before his Ascension; and last of all, in that he was seen by himself upon the way to Damascus after his Ascension: all which witnesses did with one mouth confirm the truth of Christs Resurrection.