in the 26. Chap. speaking of the Elect saith unto the Lord with Faith Thy dead shall live and rise again with my Body Awake and rejoice ye Inhabitants of the dust for thy dew is as the dew of the Fields and the Earth shall cast forth the dead The Lord willing to assure his People Israel that delivering them from the Captivity of Babylon he would bring them back into the Land which he had given them he said unto them in a Vision by the Prophet Ezek. 37. that as certain as the dead shall rise so certainly will he deliver them from the Captivity of the Babylonians for to set them in Peace in their own Land Danie saith that those that sleep in the dust shall wake some to Eternal Life and others to perpetual shame and Infamy and those which have been wise shall shine as the Brightness of the Firmament and those which do perswade Man to Righteousness shall be as Stars for ever and ever Dan. 12. Jesus Christ shews the Saduces that the dead shall rise again because that God is their God Mat. 28. In St. John Chap. 6. he saith that the will of his Father who sent him is that he shall lose nothing of all that he hath given him but that he shall raise it up at the larter day The Apostle declares that Christ is risen again for our Justification Then he saith that even as we die in Adam so we shall rise again and shall be quickened in Christ Rom. 4.5.6 1 Cor. 15. For seeing that he who is the Life when he was put into the Tomb thereby made many to rise again by much more reason now being risen again and glorified will he raise us again John 19. Psal 36. Mat. 27. In like manner he declares That he that believes Jesus is dead and risen again of which we have the surest Testimonies ought by the same parity of Reason to believe that God will bring from the Grave those that sleep in Jesus who shall from thence forth ever live with the Lord wherefore says St. Paul comfort one another with these Words that is let this be your Consolation in the midst of all your Trials Afflictions and Troubles upon Earth that they cannor last long but must end with your Life when you shall descend into the Grave where you shall not long remain but the same Power that raised your Blessed Redeemer from thence shall have the same effect on you and likewise raise you from the Dead and you shall be joined with Christ your Head and live with him in everlasting Glory this is the very sum of our Christian Profession and the highest point of our Faith All humane wisdom which is folly before God Mat. 24.25 cannot perswade themselves that the bodies which are returned into dust can rise again 1 Cor. 15. Phil. 7. nor those which have been burned whereof the ashes have been dispersed with the winds 2 Cor. 5. Acts 2.4 nor those which have been devoured by birds and by beasts and digested and reduced to dung 1 Thess 1. nor those which have perished in the waters which have been food for fishes 1 Pet. 1. 1 Cor. 1. But the Lord by that which he had done before plainly sheweth that hereafter it shall be very easie for him to do what he will with our bodies for seeing he hath made all things of nothing can he not make that to return to life which hath already been Gen. 1. Psal 33. Gen. 1. And as he made man first of the Earth can he not as well make him to rise again from it Gen. 1. in the beginning the Earth was so obedient unto him that when he commanded it to bring forth the bud of the herbs that beareth seed and the fructifying tree and the living creature beasts worms c. It of it self immediately brings forth that which before had never been how much more easily by the commandment of God may it restore many which have already been and shall be returned into it John 11. We see that although that Lazarus of Bethania had already been three days in the Earth and nevertheless when the Lord commanded him to come out of the Earth presently it was done He himself also rose again from the Earth the third day for to assure us that he will raise us again Mat. 28. Apoc. 1. for as death could not overcome Jesus Christ but that he is risen so shall it not be able to hinder his members from rising again because that he hath as much power over the dead as over the living Rom. 14. Gal. 1. 1 Thess 1.4 If God hath raised the head it followeth that he will also raise the body which we are if we believe When we consider that he did hinder the so hot burning furnace from doing any hurt to Sidrake Misake and Abednego Eph. 4. Dan. 3. we shall not find it an impossible thing to God to make them rise again which have been buried that they may be reunited unto their Souls And he that shut the Lyons Jaws because they should do no harm to Daniel Dan. 6. shall be able to raise those again which have been devoured And he commanded the fish to cast up Jonas Jon. 2. also can be easily cause that the Sea shall obey him when he shall command it to cast up his dead In brief the faithful cannot doubt of his Resurrection knowing that neither Death nor Life nor Angels nor Principalities nor powers nor things present Rom. 8. nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature can separate him from the love which God beareth in him in Jesus Christ our Lord Revel 20. For also the Sea must cast up those dead bodies which are in it and death and the Grave those which are in them for as much as the Lord hath the keys of the Grave and of death having power over them Rev. 1. Moreover God cannot be true nor truly wise nor Almighty nor Just if he doth not raise the dead and by consequence cannot be God And so who denyeth the Resurrection denyeth also that there is a God for seeing by his Word he promiseth to raise up the dead if he do it not he is not true And seeing that he declares that he will have it if he doth it not it follows that it is for want of knowledge and of power and so shall neither be truly wise nor Almighty Also he shall not be just if he doth not render to every one that which he promiseth him for the Author to the Hebrews saying that God is saith also that he is a rewarder of those that seek him Heb. 11. Mat. 10. Marc. 8. Luc. 9 Now in this world the children of God have nothing but afflictions every day being set out for a shew as men condemned to death and being made a spectacle to the world to the Angels and to men Cor. 4. John 16. As our Saviour also saith to his disciples You shall weep and lament
Christian Exortation against the fearc of Death For since by man came death by man came also the resurrection of the dead Corin 15 Ch. p 21. TWO DISCOURSES The FIRST A CHRISTIAN'S EXHORTATION Against the FEARS OF DEATH The SECOND A brief and clear Declaration of the Resurrection of the Dead With suitable Meditations and Prayers touching LIFE and DEATH Recommended as proper to be given at Funerals By W. S. LONDON Printed for Tho. Bever at the Hand and Star next to the Middle Temple-Gate near Temple Bar 1690. Price bound 1 Shilling A DISCOURSE Against the Fears of DEATH PLATO said That the Philosophy wherein Man living in this World should principally exercise himself is the Meditation of Death That is to say of his condition in the World frail diseased and mortal of the divers accidents of this humane Life and of the Hour of Death so uncertain and unknown to the end that considering these things he might withdraw his affection and trust from this World that he might despise it and all temporal things wherein he sees and discovers so much inconstancy and such suddain and frequent mutations or changes and that by such a despising of uncertain and casual things he should stir up himself unto a contemplation of those that are Divine and Heavenly and forsaking that which is here perishing and transitory he should choose his part in Heaven and should stay himself at that which is permanent and eternal For the like reason Philip the Father of Alexander the Great a man of good understanding and of very great consideration to the end that in the midst of his great prosperity he should not forget himself in his Duty gave order that one of his Gentlemen should every day at his waking come and speak these words unto him King have in remembrance that thou art a mortal Man Jesus Christ also our Saviour and Master intending the same doth exhort us to Watch and to lay up Treasures in Heaven and not on Earth where all things are uncertain and changeable We see by this that during our Life we cannot do better then to think upon Death and our Body being upon the Earth to accustom our selves to have always our Spirit and Heart in Heaven Now because that the remembrance of Death is a fearful thing to many I have bethought my self to pass away my Griefs and to recreate my self from my other Studies and also to give you a testimony of the Obligation which I think I have towards you as well for the good which you have done unto me as for the Friendship which you bear me to write unto you and to present this small Treatise wherein I have briefly touched certain Points wherewith the Faithful may Arm themselves against Death which he ought to do in time and prepare himself to receive it with assurance at such time as it shall please God to send it for that which doth astonish many is that the coming thereof is suddain unto them and that they are surprized unlooked for We see by experience in a frontier Town that when it is well Victualled and provided of all things necessary to with-stand a long Siege those within are a great deal the more assured and bold whereas if it were unprovided they would stand amazed and tremble with fear if they should chance to see the approaching of the Siege It is easie to judge by that of what importance it is to have prevented a danger and to be prepared for it To provide therefore and arm the Faithful Man against Death we must note that there are two sorts of it the one is temporal of the body which Christians ought to desire the other is eternal of body and Soul which they ought not to fear persevering in the Faith of our Lord. That it is so all Fear pre-supposeth evil and danger we do not fear that which is good but long after desire and pursue it and when it offers it self we receive it joyfully but an evil we apprehend and fear we fly from it and when it happens unto us we sorrow and do complain If then it doth appear by good and evident Proofs that the Faithful Man is not in danger of this second Death may we not then conclude that if we fear it it is foolish and without occasion And surely if we had judgment and never so little Faith it were sufficient presently to take away the fear of it from us For first the proper nature of faith is to animate and quicken our heart so soon as it is received in us The Just saith the Prophet shall live by Faith Now even so as the Body whiles the Soul is in it liveth and dieth not until such time as it be separated from it no more doth the Faithful Man persevering in the Faith which hath been inspired and put into his Heart by the Grace of God Although saith David I should walk in the midst of the shadow of Death I will not fear for Thou art with me O Lord What was the cause of this assurance was it not Faith Armed wherewith we ought no more to fear Death then we do Sickness when we are in perfect health well disposed and in good liking or Poverty when we have plenty and abundance of all good things Secondly By Faith we have remission and an abolition of all the faults which we have done Why do we then fear Death There is no Death where there is no Sin 〈…〉 Death 〈…〉 Paul and elsewhere The Reward of Sin is Death Sin causeth God to be angry with us and that in His Anger He condemneth us to Death Now all Seeds doth bring forth according to their sort and quality The Wheat bringeth forth Wheat and the Rye Rye and we must not hope for any Fruit if there be not Seed before hand This being true and witnessed in a thovsand places of the Scripture that unto a Christian all his Sins and debts are acquitted by the Grace and Mercy of God that they are forgotten that they are covered that they are not imputed and that they are remitted and pardoned that they are cast as far from us as the East from the West provided that there be no more Seed thereof we need not look for any Fruit That is to say if there be no more Sin there is no more anger of God nor of death and by consequent that also there ought to be no more fear Thirdly By Faith we have the Word and the Promises of GOD whereupon it is grounded Among others this Whoso Believeth shall not Die but is passed from Death to Life Now this promise can no more fail than He that gave it us It is Eternal and all that God saith is as sure and permanent as Heaven and Earth For this cause when we look into them we ought in them to consider the vertue and power of this Word by the which they were once Created and ever since preserved and maintained in that estate wherein
World the Estates which we esteem most of are subject to so many mis-haps what may we think of others which we our selves by reason of the discommodities which are joyned unto them do fly from and esteem unhappy So we see that there is not any estate that of it self doth make a body happy or contented and as in Estates besides the common Miseries every one hath his own particular so also have all the Ages of Man evils which are proper unto them In his Child-hood he is full of Infirmities without Vertue without Understanding without the use of Reason and Speech and without Wit and he must be fifteen years old before he is capable to know only what Estate is fittest for him wherein often-times he deceives himself chusing that whereunto he is least fit Is he come into his Youth he is rash adventurous foolish passionate voluptuous prodigal a drunkard a gamester quarrelsom whereby it happeneth oft that in this age he falleth into great inconveniences and dangers to be Imprisoned to be Hanged to lose his Goods and even to bring his Parents with sorrow to the Grave When this great heat by little and little begins to cool and diminish and â—hat he waxeth a perfect Man then he must labour Night and Day for to entertain his House nourish his Children and provide for them for time to come he is Besieged now with Defire and Covetousness then with Fear lest his Children should remain unprovided for lest they should behave themselves ill and lest they should do some dis-honour to their House The Age of Vertue and Perfection declining behold in our sight old Age comes creeping on in the which Man is sickly unweildy cold and forsaken and as among the Seasons of the Year the last is Winter and the most troublesome so amongst all the Ages of Man is the old Age. That which I have said is not the hundredth part of all the Evils whereunto the Sick Man is subject and nevertheless that little which we have spoken of it is sufficient to shew that in all Estates and in all Ages it is miserable and as said Merander Life and Misery are two Twins for they are born and grow they are nourished and live always together Which Nature teacheth us in two things First in that the little Children 〈◊〉 into the World they always 〈◊〉 presaging the Evil which they are to endure if they live long Secondly in that coming forth of their Mothers Belly they are all bathed in Blood and are more like unto a dead Man whose Throat had been lately out by Murtherers then to any thing else Two ancient Philosophers considering these things said the one That God did love those which he takes out of this World in their Child-hood The other That it were good never to be Born or else to die presently Surely it is a wonderful thing and which sheweth well that we have want of Understanding that although Life were never so ugly and dis-figured and that in all her parts there were neither Grace nor Beauty that could commend it we nevertheless should be so in love with it that we always desire to keep it and never to change But we are much abused for it is more uncertain then it is miserable For to shew us the uncertainty of it the Ancients called it a Shadow and a Dream which are the two things in the World the most vain and least fixed Pythagoras being once demanded what humane Life was spake never a word for his custom was to answer and instruct more by Signs than by Words but went into a Chamber and came forth again presently Signifying That the Life of Man is but an entring in and going out And Jesus Christ exhorteth us to Watch and grounds Himself upon nothing else but upon the inconstancy and uncertainty of this Life Watch saith He for you know not at what Hour the Lord will come And who is that Man in how good disposition and happiness soever he be that can promise himself continue in it but a day Those 18 Men in Jerusalem doubted of nothing when in an instant they were destroyed by the ruins of the Tower of Syloe In the time of the Flood they did Build and made Marriages and Banquets when suddenly contrary to the expectation and opinion of all the World the Rain fell in clear Weather which Rain did overflow the whole Earth The rich Man whereof mention is made in the Twelfth of Luke though he was very secure who having so much Wealth that he know not where to Whord it made account to give himself to Pleasure and to live after that time at his ease when while he was standing upon these terms behold the Serjeant of GOD comes day to give up an account unto him of all the precious things and goods which he had left and which he had gathered with such great labour But it is labour lost to go about to prove a thing so manifest and which we experiment and see daily For in this VVorld there is nothing more ordinary nor more frequent then that which Ovid saith That the Life of Man and all humane things are hanged and do hold but by a little Thred Let us behold then seeing on the one side the great Evils whereof it is full and on the other side the inconstancy of the good which it hath if we have great occasion to desire God that he would prolong it unto us or to complain or discontent our selves at Death when it taketh it away from us VVe have understood the evils from the which Death doth deliver us let us now come to consider the good which it bringeth unto us from thence we shall yet better know that we ought not only not to fear shun and avoid it but also desire it with all affection for one of the Goods only which we enjoy by Deaths means is greater than all those which we can have in the VVorld living in it for ever By it first we rest as saith St. John is his Apocalyps And after that we have endured and are almost consumed with innumerable troubles and labours Dying our Spirit goeth into Heaven and our Body into the Earth as into a Bed there for to rest and refresh it self The poor Artificers are so glad when Evening draws near and that it is almost Night that they may be paid for their Labour and go home to rest themselves or when after they have laboured the six Days in the Week that Sunday comes when they hope to rest and refresh themselves and recover the force and vigour as well of their Bodies as of their Minds we ought not to be less joyful when the time of our Death draweth near which we ought to wait for and desire as a Holy-day in the which we hope to rest and by the pleasure which therein we take presently forget all the sorrows and troubles which we have had in this World The end of all that we do and of
abandon his own life which ought more to move us then any other thing Where is that Person who having heard of so many perfections to be in his friend would not burn and be altogether transported with desire and affection to see him If our King or some Prince of renown comes into our Country we desire to see him because of the report which we have heard of his Vertue and Valour If Hercules Alexander the great Caesar Cato of whom we so much commend the ancient Pictures were now in this world we would through curiosity go a hundred Miles to see them with what an affection then should we aspire to that day in the which we shall face to face see and behold that so mighty Prince who with an invincible force hath broken the head of all our Enemies who like unto a valiant Josua in despite of them hath brought us through the dangers and conducted us into the land which God promised us What a pleasure shall it be to us to see him glorious and in triumphant array and round about him the goodly trophees of his great victories set up It is said that when Alexander had overcome Darius King of the Persians entring into the place where he made his residence He sits down in his Throne and that presently a Greek Grentleman of his Company began to weep for joy in speaking these words O happy day in the which we see our King victorious against the Barbarians and their pride trodden under foot O that all Greece had now the sight and the pleasure of this Spectacle Think what joy it will be also to every faithful Man to see Jesus Christ in his Royal Seat holding under his Feet all his Enemies and ours but especially the Serpent whose head is already broken and now he doth nothing else but wag his Tail waiting his sinal end which shall be at the day of Judgment Many Kings and Princes did with great affection desire to see him when he was on Earth in the form of a Servant And Simeon because he saw him so did so rejoice and was so satisfied that he feared no more to die Ought hot we more to desire to see him in Heaven in a Kingly Robe with company greatness majesty and pomp and in the state of a Lord The Queen of Sheba who being induced by the rumour which was spred over all the Earth of the great Court of King Solomon came running thither from the farthest part of the South to see him and to hear his wisdom and after she had diligently considered his great and marvellous Wisdom the order the splendor and state of his House stood all astonished and with great admiration said O how happy are the Servants of thy House who may see thy Face every day and hear thy Divine Speeches Let us say also O thrice and four times happy are the Faithful who dying go directly to Heaven to behold the Face of Jesus Christ who is greater than Solomon For the only contemplation of it makes man content in every point in taking from us the memory and feeling of all other pleasures causeth that we cannot nor will not turn our eyes and Thoughts from it Now Death doth not only cause us to see Jesus Christ but maketh us with him to behold the Angels the Patriarks the Prophets the Apostles the Martyrs which have been singular in graces and vertues And if any Man that hath a Heart towards God desires to see the Church well ordered in this World and preferreth it to all that can be given him albeit the order is never so great yet there will be many things more to be desired with what vehemence and heat then should he wish to see it in Heaven without spot or wrinkle shining like the Sun clothed in Robes as white as Snow set forth in Nuptial Order The last Reason for the which we ought to desire Death is that by it our Spirit being parted from the Body which doth clog it is more at liberty and more capable to look into the Mysteries of God We live all in this World with a natural desire to know therefore it is that for our contentment we seek always to hear and see some Novelties now is it not possible that here beneath we should come to any great knowledg chiefly of the truth as well because that of it self it is obscure and hard to know as also for the Cares Peturbations Afflictions Passions c. wherewith our mind is intangled and hindred whilst it is in our Bodies which are unto it as dust in a Man's Eye which doth hinder it from discerning any thing understandingly This is the Reason wherefore God saith unto Moses That whilst we live we cannot see it clearly for the which also S. Paul saith That we know but in part and S. John That we see the Mysteries of our god but as it were in a Glass or through a Window but when our Soul shall be parted from this Body and the vail taken away which blindeth her Eyes then shall it behold and see God Face to Face then shall it have the perfect Knowlede of him and of Jesus Christ his Son and in it Eternal Life We shall behold that which now we Worship for we shall enter into the Sanctuary of our Lord and there shall look on him without ceasing the Propitiation and the Cherubins Nothing neither of the Law nor the Gospel shall be any more unknown or hid from us God will shew unto us God will shew unto us as unto his Friends and Familiars all the Riches of his House he will talk Friendly with us and will impart all unto us An ancient Man turning from Merchandise and being entred into the Hall where Demetri IX and Phalere IX read when he had heard him a little while begins to complain and said O unhappy Man that I am have the Goods of this World been the Cause that I have been so long deprived of such good things at these Let us also say O Miserable Life will thou last much longer wilt thou not shortly let us go whither we aspire which is the School of our god Must we lose so many days Happy Death wilt thou not hasten to bring us thither We see by these Reasons what occasion we have to fear flie from and complain of Death which is a rest and sleep most delightful above all other for there is no noise nor dreams to trouble or interupt it it is a holsom Medicine which being swallowed doth heal us of all Diseases and taketh all pain from us Which Socrates considering after he had drunk the poyson by the commandment of the Athenians who had unjustly condemned him to die when the venom was dispersed in his Members and his Friend Crito a little before he gave up the Ghost had asked him if he would command him nothing no said he but that thou offer Sacrifice to Esculapi IX the God of Physiek to give him thanks for I
to the Joy of the Children of god Unto the Thief it was said This Day thou shalt be with me in Paradise Luk. 23. Joh. 5.6 which cannot be understood of the Body but shews that the faithful Dying makes the passage from Death to Life The which ought only to be understood of the Soul seeing that the Body must first be brought to Earth and that it must put off all Corruption for to rise at the last Day Incorruptible and in Glory Mat. 22. Thus Jesus Christ against the Saduces who denied the Immortality of Souls shews that forasmuch as God calls himself the God of Abraham of Isaac and of Jacob Exod. 3. infallibly the Souls departed do live for he is not the God of those that are dead in such sort that they are no more but he is the God of those that are and that live and doth good to the Posterity of those that are and not of those that are not which cannot be understood but of their Souls seeing their Bodies were returned to the Earth Whereby we see that they deceive themselves greatly that say that their Souls die and vanish with the Body where they Sleep also those likewise who think that they enter into other Bodies Mak 6. Luk. 9. Even the Pagans by natural Apprehensions have believe that the Souls were Immortal a we see that Euripides in the Tragedy which he intituled Hecuba doth declare it when he brings in Polixen speaking to Hecuba and dying saying to her What shall I say to Hectâ— thy Husband who was dead she aâ— swered her tell him that I am the most wretched in the World And in that which he entituled The Supplicant he says The Spirit shall return to Heaven Likewise Pholicides says That the Soul is immortal and living always waxeth not old Pythagoras in his Golden Verses said If when thou hast left the Body thou comest into Heaven thou shalt be as God living always and being no more Mortal Cicero likewise Writes of it in his Book of Friendship and in that which he writ of Age in some sort comforting himself in the hope which he had of the immortality of his Soul We see then that it is a thing most assured that the Soul is immortal as the Lord by his Word which is the Infallible Truth of Heaven doth shew it us And likewise the Pagans how Ignorant soever they were of the true Religion have well understood it Wherefore those that deny the Immortality of Souls accuse God of lying and make themselves in worse estate than the Pagans This Knowledge is a great Consolation to the Faithful in all their Afflictions and doth take from them the fears of Death knowing that their Souls being separated from their Bodies live in Heaven 1 John 2 in which they are admonished not to settle themselves upon the transitory things of this Life and not to load their Souls with the burthen of Sin to the end that dying they may be raised up towards God our Father and Jesus Christ our Saviour unto whom we ought with a stedfast faith to recommend them Now even as the faithful do rejoice at it the unfaithful on the other side knowing the Souls to be immortal are so much the more fearful of Death seeing the eternal pains and torments to be prepared for them at their going forth of this World James 1. 1 Pet. 1.4 So that which serveth to the Elect for Joy and Instruction is unto the wicked nothing but Sorrow and occasion of Despair The Second Point TOuching the Body it is all apparant that it is subject to die as well because that we know that those that were in times past are dead and that we see that those of our time die one after another as principally because that the Lord declares to Adam that by reason of his Sin he with his posterity shall be subject to return into the Earth from whence he was taken Gen. 3. The Apostle says Rom. 5.8.6 That by Man Sin came into the World and by Sin Death and so Death came unto all Men by reason that all have sinned â—nd the reward of Sin is Death whereof the hour is uncertain unto us â—uke 12. Although we are certain â—hat it is the Journey that every man must go by reason that unto them â—ll it is ordained to die once Jos 12. 1 Kings 2 The Scripture is full of Testimonies upon this matter although it be well enough known of all by every days Experience Heb. 9. Job 14. The Pagans themselves without Instruction of the Word of God have well understood that unto Man it is a thing that cannot be avoided as Euripedes shews it in the Tragedie of the Supplicants saying That every part of Man must return from whence it came the Spirit into Heaven the Body into the â—â—â—ih which is the Mother and Nurse thereof Wherefore it is a thing known to all that we must die but now by how much it is easie to believe that necessity to die is imposed upon us by so much is iâ— more difficult to believe that our bodies being returned to dust shall risâ— again And indeed the sensual Maâ—â— cannot comprehend any thing there in neither hath any thought of it as we see that the Pagans never thought of it although that they have disputed of the immortality oâ— Souls But the Man that is regenerate by the Spirit of God doubt not but that the Lord can raise the dead seeing he will have it so and that nothing can hinder his Will Psal 115. For as sayth the Prophet he doth what he will Apoc. 4. We must then fee how the Scripture dotâ— assure us that the Bodies as well oâ— the good as of the wicked shall rise again the first â—o be crowned with Glory the other with perpetual Infamy Dan. 12. For to teach us thâ— Resurrection it compares Death to a â—leep as hath been already said to â—he end we may be certain that as the bodies after they have laboured shall rest by Sleep that they being awaked may with so much more alacrity return to work so when we shall have made an end of this present Life our Bodies shall be brought to the Tomb as in a Bed of rest for to rise again from thence at the latter day and be put into their place Job prophecying of the Resurrection the which he did firmly believe says I know that my Redeemer liveth and that he will stand up at the latter day upon the Earth and although after my Skin this Body shall be devoured by Worms yet with my Flesh shall I see God I shall behold him and my Eyes shall look upon him and none other for me although my Reins are consumed within me Job 14. 19. David foretels the Resurrection of Christ by whom we shall rise again the which was figured by this that Jonas was three days and three nights in the Whales Belly as Jesus Christ himself declares it Johu 2. Mat. 12. The Prophet Isay