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power_n	body_n	natural_a	sow_v	2,624	5	11.4108	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40096	A sermon preached before the right honourable the lord maior of London, and the Court of Aldermen, &c., on Easter-Monday, 1692 being one of the anniversary spittal-sermons / by Edward Lord Bishop of Gloucester.	Fowler, Edward, 1632-1714.	1692 (1692)	Wing F1723; ESTC R37351	17,587	40

who are made acquainted with the Whole of it needs be if they continue not withstanding Unbelievers And by Unbelievers we are to understand not only those who disbelieve the Gospel but such also as yield so weak and feeble an Assent there to as not to govern their lives by it For we had every jot as good give no Credit at all to our Lords Doctrine as refuse to live in Obedience to it We now come to discourse a while on our own future Resurrection expressed in the following Words of the Text And will also raise up us by His own Power And two things are herein implyed First That God will not suffer our Souls when our Bodies dye to go out of Being Secondly That our dead Bodies shall be raised to Life again First That God will not suffer our Souls when our Bodies dye to go out of Being or to dye with them For as much as to Sense the Man seems to dye and not his meer Body and therefore we always say such a Man is dead not such a ones Body the Restoration of the Soul which alone is truly the Man to the Exercise of its Faculties after the Stound of Death is over is in several places of Scripture exprest by the Word Resurrection Our Saviour proves the Resurrection of the Dead Mark 12. 26. from Gods saying to His Servant Moses I am the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob. But this saying did imply necessarily no more than this that they were not gone out of Being but that their Souls were still alive tho' their Bodies were dead and crumbled to dust And so much is intimated in the next Words He is not the God of the Dead but the God of the Living And 't is plain that the Word Resurrection is taken in the same sense Acts 23. 8. where we read That the Sadduces say there is no Resurrection neither Angel nor Spirit but the Pharisees confess both And to name but one Place more as we might do divers it is so to be understood too 1 Cor. 15. 32. where the Apostle saith If after the manner of men I have fought with Beasts at Ephesus what advantageth it me if the dead rise not Would onely the Resurrection of S. Pauls Body have made him an amends for all his Sufferings Would not his Souls Enjoyment of his dear Jesus to all Eternity have been an abundant Recompence though he never had seen his Body more Yes undoubtedly and therefore by these Words If the dead rise not he meant If there be no Life after this But Secondly By He will also raise up us by His own Power is especially to be understood He will raise up our dead Bodies as He did our Saviours Our Souls and they shall be re-united by the Divine Power There is no Doctrine more clearly or fully revealed than is this of the Resurrection of the Body We have a very Particular Account thereof We are informed who shall rise again Not some few or so many but all the Sons and Daughters of Adam without Exception 1 Cor. 15. 22. Our Saviour saith that That The Hour is coming in the which All that are in the Graves shall hear His Voice and shall come forth John 5. 28. And S. Paul That there shall be a Resurrection both of the just and of the unjust We are told in what Order they shall rise The dead in Christ or True Christians shall rise first 1 Thes. 4. 16. We are told by whom they shall be immediately raised viz. by Jesus Christ or by the Power of God the Father given to Him By which Power He is also again and again said to have raised Himself We now heard that it is His Voice that shall raise us And He saith John 6. 40. This is the Will of Him that sent me that every one which seeth the Son and believeth on him may have eternal Life and I will raise him up at the Last Day And thus we see we are informed too of the Time when the Dead shall be raised viz. at the Last Day And in the end of the World as our Lord saith Mat. 13. 39. We are told for what End Christ will raise the dead viz. That they who have done good may come forth to the Resurrection of Life and they that have done evil to the Resurrection of Damnation Lastly We read also what Kind of Bodies the Raised ones shall be 1 Cor. 15. 35 c. But some man will say how are the dead raised up and with what body do they come Or how can it be that Dead Bodies being Putrified and Rotten should be made to Revive and what Kind of Bodies may we suppose they will be It follows Thou Fool that which thou sowest is not quickned except it dye Or is any thing more Common than things rising to life from Putrifaction Don't we see that the Rotting of the Corn is so far from making it impossible that it should Spring up again that 't is necessary thereto And that which thou sowest thou sowest not that Body that shall be but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bare meer Grain it may Chance of Wheat or some other Grain Or thou sowest not the Grain with the Ear or Blade but it comes up again with both But God giveth it a Body as it pleaseth Him and to every Seed it s own Body A Body of the same Kind Proportion and Form All Flesh is not the same Flesh c. There are various Sorts of Flesh as there are of Grain And there is great variety of other Bodies as it follows There are Bodies Coelestial and Bodies Terrestial but the Glory of the Coelestial is one and the Glory of the Terrestial is another c. And our Bodies when raised shall be of a different nature and quality from what they were when laid in the Grave as we see v. 42. They are sown in Corruption they are raised in Incorruption They are sown in Dishonour they are raised in Glory they are sown in weakness they are raised in Power They are sown Natural Bodies or Animal ones which need to be sustained and nourished with meat and drink they are raised Spiritual Bodies or such as need neither Thus have I given you the substance of what we find in Scripture upon this Argument and if we can be satisfied with the Scriptural Account of the Resurrection of the Body and he is a Wanton Wit that cannot it will not appear to be so Contradictious or impossible a thing as many have endeavoured to make it or at all Contradictious or impossible to the infinite Power of God We find in the Holy Scriptures that the Bodies Raised are in some sense the same with the Bodies buried and in some sense not the same And we find their Sameness illustrated by the Sameness of the Corn Sprung up with the Corn Sown And those who affect not to be wiser than the Apostle S. Paul in this matter are not at all Concerned to trouble