J.ymrgwe. iY die orfoule ofChrifì, but thewholeperfon ofman both inbodieàndfoule is ioyned and vnited towhole Chrift. And when we are once ioyned to Çhrifl in this mortals life by thebloodeofthe fpirit, we flail remaine and continue eternally ioyned with him : and this vnion once trulymadefhali neuer be diffolued. Hence it foliowes, that although the bodie be feuered from the foule in death , yet neither bodie nor ioule are feuered from Chriff , but the verybodie rotting in the graue,, drowned in the fea, bur- nedto afhes, abides fbül vnited to him , and is as truly amemberofChrifa then asbefore. This point we muff remember as thefoundationof all our comfort, and hold it for euer as a truth. For looke what was theconditi- onofChtifiindeath , the fame or the like is the conditionof all his mem- bers. Now the conditionof Chrift was this , though his bodie andfoule were feuered:each from otheras farce as heauen and the grave, yet nei- ther ofthcm were feuered from the Godheadofthe Sonne , but both did in death fubffl in hisperfon. And therefore though our bodies and foules be pulled afttnder bynaturall orviolent death, yet neitherofthcmno not the bodie itfelfe fhall be feuered and difioyned from Chrifl. It will.be ah ead- ged, that ifche bodiewere then vnited to Chritl, it fhould hue &be quick- ned in the graue. e.infvv. Not fo : when a mans arme or legge is ta- kenwith thedead palfie, itreceiueslittleornoheate,. life, fenfe, ormo- tion from the bodie: and yet notwithflanding.itremaines frill a member ofthebodie, besaufe the`flefh and the bone of it remain e ioyned to the Befit and the bone ofthe bodie : cucn fomay the bodie remaine a member of Chat,though forfome fpaceoftime it recciue neither fenfe normotion nor lifefrom the fouleor from the fpiritofChrift. Furthermore we muff remember that by the vertue of this coniun6tion, flaall the dead bodie be it rotten, burned, deuoured, or howfoeuer con- firmed, at thedayofjudgement rife to eternali glorie. In the winter feafòn. trees remaine without fruite or kanes, and becing beaten with winde and weather appeare.tothe eye as i (theywere rotten trees; yet when the fpring . time comes againe, they bring forth as before,buddesand bloffoms,leaucs and fruit: the realon ¡s, becaule the bodie, graines, and armes oftreeare all ioyned,to the roote,, where lies the fappe in the winter feafon, and whence by meanes of this coniunetion it is dcriucd to all the parts ofthe treein the fpringtime. Euen fo the bodies ofmen haue their winter alto, in which they are turned to dui}, and fo remaine for the fpace ofmany thoufandyeares, yct in the day of iudgement by meanes ofthat myllicall coniunetion with Chrifi , fhall diuine and quickning vertue fireame thence to all the bodies of the Flee to caufe them to lineagainc, and that to life eternall. But force will fay,that the wickedalto rifeagaine.Anf..They doe fo indeede; but not by the fame caufe ,. for they rife by the power of Chrift as he is a fudge to condemne them : whereas the godly rife againe by thevertue ofChrihs refurre&iion, whereofthey are partakers bymeanes of that bleffed and indiffoluble coniun Lion which they banewith Ghtiíi:. And
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