powerful to save us, than Adam was to destroy us. Now, Adam hath lost both soul and body; therefore Jesus Christ must needs save and redeem both the one and the other, and consequently the body must rise again, that it may partake of the salvation and redemption.

Sixthly. As we have borne the image of the first man which is of the earth, earthly; we shall also bear the image of the second man, which is the Lord from heaven, 1 Cor. xv. 47, 49. Now, we bear not this glorious image during the course of this life; therefore we must bear it, in that which is to come.

Seventhly. God hath not made a covenant with only one part of a man, but with the whole man, as he is composed of soul and body; therefore the body must needs rise again, that it may partake of the glory and happiness which are promised to us by this holy and divine covenant.

Eighthly. God is not only called the Father of spirits, Heb xii. 9, and the God of the spirits of all flesh, Numb. xvi. 22; but he styles himself in general, the God of Abraham, and of his seed, Gen. xvii. 7. He is not only the God of the soul, or the God of the body alone, but he is the God of the entire person of believers. Whence it necessarily follows, that the bodies of such as are dead are not utterly destroyed, but that God shall raise them up again. With this argument Christ stopped the mouths of the Sadducees, who denied the resurrection as touching the resurrection of the dead, said he, Have ye not read that which was spoken unto you, by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living, Matth. xxii. 31, 32; Exod. iii. 6.

Ninthly. God hath adopted us by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, Eph. i. to make us heirs of his kingdom, and joint-heirs with his Son, Rom. viii. 17. From hence we may gather an assured hope of the resurrection; for when this Father of mercies shall behold our bodies lying in the dust, he will take compassion upon them, and will say. These are the bodies of my children, the members of my dear Son; it is not just that I leave them for ever in this state of ignominy and corruption, nor will my Fatherly tenderness towards them suffer it It was doubtless this consideration that caused the apostle to call the redemption of our bodies by the name of adoption; for by that he assures us, that God will bring out of their graves the bodies of all them whom he hath adopted; and that our resurrection is the effect, and necessary consequence of our adoption. Finally, our Saviour himself speaks of it as the same thing, to be the child of God, and the child of the resurrection, Luke xx. 36.

Tenthly. Death, considered in itself, as it is in its own nature, is the wages of sin, Rom. vi. 23, and the punishment of our crimes. Now, since Jesus Christ hath paid these wages for us, and made satisfaction for our sins, nailed them to his cross, it follows that death, with respect to believers, is to be destroyed, and consequently that their bodies must needs rise again.

Eleventhly. St. Paul tells us that Jesus Christ is the Saviour of the body, Eph. v. 23. Now the mystical body of this great God and Saviour, consists not only in the infinite number of souls which he hath purchased, but also in the assembly of all those bodies that have been the companions of these blessed souls; therefore, as he hath saved our souls from the spiritual death and

eternal damnation, he must also save our bodies from the corporal death, and ransom them from the power of the grave.

Twelfthly. If death was to detain our bodies for ever in the grave, it could not be said, properly speaking, that our Saviour hath swallowed up death in victory, 1 Cor. xv. 54, and that he is the destruction of the grave, Hosea xiii 14, since death and the grave would remain victorious, and triumph for ever over these miserable bodies.

Thirteenthly. Our Saviour hath suffered both in his body and soul, and by that means hath fully purchased to himself, both our souls and bodies, according to the apostle's excellent saying, Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit which are God's, 1 Cor. vi. 20. Hence it follows, that if our bodies were to remain for ever under the empire of death, this glorious Saviour would be defrauded of part of that which he hath purchased by the infinite merit of his sufferings.

Fourteenthly. The Holy Ghost hath sanctified our bodies, and made them his temples, as St. Paul expressly teacheth us in these divine words, Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwel leth in you? 1 Cor. iii. 16. From hence the resurrection of the body follows as a necessary consequence? For can we imagine that God will suffer the temple of his holiness to lie in perpetual ruin and desolation? Will he not rebuild the pavilion of his glory, cast down by death?

Fifteenthly. God hath predestinated us to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren, Rom. viii. 29. Now the soul and body of this well-beloved of the Father,

that were separated by death, have been united again. by the resurrection, and received into heaven: therefore our souls, that depart out of this world to enter into paradise, must return again to join their bodies, that we may be received up into heaven both in soul and body. All the difference between us and our triumphant captain, is, that this precious body neither was, nor could be, subject to corruption, because of his glory, and the personal union of his humanity with the Godhead : whereas the most part of all other bodies suffer corruption, and moulder into dust.

Sixteenthly. We have the same Holy Spirit and divine virtue dwelling in us, though not in an equal measure or degree, which was in our Lord Jesus Christ, and was the efficient cause of his resurrection: whence it follows, that it will produce in us the same effect, and also raise our bodies from the grave. The apostle makes use of this argument in the 8th chapter of the Romans, If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raiseth up Christ from the dead, shall also quicken your mortal bodies, by his Spirit that dwelleth in you, verse 11.

Seventeenthly. A dead body revived upon touching the bones of the prophet Elisha, 2 Kings xiii. 21; how much greater reason have we to hope for the resurrection of our bodies, since we not only touch Jesus Christ, dead and risen again, but are become members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones! Eph. v. 30. I am, saith he, the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth, and believeth in me, shall never die, John xi. 25, 26.

Eighteenthly. God hath sealed our bodies with his

own signet; he hath imprinted upon them the marks of his love, and hath given them visible and palpable assurances of their future blessedness. Under the Old • Testament, believers bore the seal of God's covenant in their flesh; for circumcision was the seal of their righteousness, that is by faith, Rom. iv. 11, and of the hope of a blessed immortality. They also eat the flesh of the paschal lamb, which was a type of Jesus Christ, the true Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world, John i. 29. Likewise, under the new covenant God consecrates our bodies to himself by the waters of baptism, and assures them of the glorious reurrection by the bread and wine of the Lord's supper. For if by eating this bread, and drinking this wine, we eat and drink spiritually the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ, it is an infallible assurance, that this divine Saviour will raise us up again at the last day, as he himself promiseth, Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day, John vi. 54.

Nineteenthly. The body of a believer partakes of the sufferings of Christ; it endures many evils for the profession of his holy name, and it is often exposed to the 'most cruel and shameful torments; therefore it is but just, that it should also partake of his triumphs, glory, and eternal happiness: For it is a faithful saying; if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him; if we suffer, we shall also reign with him, 2 Tim. ii. 11, 12. We always bear about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body, 2 Cor. iv. 10.

Twentiethly. God makes nothing in vain; he bestows upon us no useless desires; but God hath kindled in us an earnest longing to have this wretched body delivered