| made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the first fruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.—But some man will say, how are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened except it die. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or some other grain: but God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. So also is the resurrection | of the dead: it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption: it is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power: it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body." 1 Cor. xv. 12, 13, 17, 20, 23, 35, 38, 42, 44.
"Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself." Phil. iii. 21. |
EXTRACT IV.
State of the Heathen.
"One greater than Moses is come, and has introduced a new covenant, or rather has called the people back to the first dispensation and covenant which God made with his creature man in the beginning, and which is written upon the tables of the heart[1] by the finger of God, and not upon tables of stone, but upon the very tablets of our souls."—"I will make a new covenant with them. Now this could only have been with Israel, because he had never given such a covenant to any except the Israelites, and all others were reckoned under the law of the first covenant, the covenant of love and life." pp. 60, 61.
- ↑ Written upon the tables of the heart,—see under Ser. IV. Ex. 5.
