Vit/r;ry over Death. 189 paid: there was made thereupon, a promife of a glo– rious refurrection to his members ; whereby they ihall be put out of the reach of death for good and all, at _. the lafi day : for, ' Then ihall be brouglu to pafs the faying that is written, De~th is fwallowed up in vicro– ry,' 1 Cor. xv. 54· and th~n ihall they triumphantly fing, ' 0 death, where is thy fiing ? 0 grave, where is thy viCtory?, Ver. 55· ·And thus the covenant fe– cures the (arming anew .of their diflolved bodies, the , · return of their departed fouls into them, and their · coming forth of their graves glorious, immortal, and 'incorruptible. In the faith ofwhich, the faints may with comfort confider the grave as but a retiringoplace, fr-om whence after a while th~y ihall come forth wi-th unfpeakable joy. · ' This promife is grafred upon the prornife of a re– furreCtion made to Chrifi, lf~1. xxvi. 19~ ' Thy dead men fhalllive, together with rey dead body !hall they arife.' The promife of a refurreEtion being· ·made ' to him, as a publick perfon ; it mufr take place alfo in his myfiical members, whofe federal Head he was. Hencf the Pfalmill fays, Hi$jlejh jhould re(i in hdpe,; namely, in the grave, in hope of a glorious refilfrecri– on, becaufe the holy one Jefus was not toJc:e t;orrupt~n, IJfalm xvi. Q, 1 o. with Acts xiii. 35· thereby teaching, that Chrifr's refurrecrion would enfure his glorious re– furreCtion, as a member of the myi1i~al body by faith~ And indeed there is fuch aconnexion between Chrifi's refurreCtion a.nd the happy refurrection qf the faints, ' .that they fiand and fa4 together., 1 Cor. xv. 16. ' For if the dead rife not, then is not Chrifi raifed.' : . II. The Prpmife ofEverlajling Life in Heaven . . The promife of eternal life cloth, in the lafr place 1 · comprehend a promife of everlafiing life in heaven, to be conferr'd on all apd every one ofthe · fpiritual · · feed, after c!eath, D~n. xii. 2. ' And many of them . that fleep il~ the dufi of tbe earth !hall awake, fome to eve_r- '
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