{"number":54,"title":"Of the Resurrection","part":null,"questions":[37],"paragraphs":[],"clauses":[],"items":[{"question":"Is the Resurrection a credible Doctrine?","answer":"Yes, it is. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?","segments":[{"text":"Yes, it is.","proofs":["Acts 26:8"],"refs":[{"printed":"Acts 26:8","osis":["Acts.26.8"]}],"note":null},{"text":"Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Why then doth it seem incredible to man?","answer":"Because they err, not knowing the Scriptures, and the Power of God. Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the Scriptures, neither the power of God? The Power of God assures us it may be so, and the word of God tells us it must be so.","segments":[{"text":"Because they err, not knowing the Scriptures, and the Power of God.","proofs":["Mark 12:24"],"refs":[{"printed":"Mark 12:24","osis":["Mark.12.24"]}],"note":null},{"text":"Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the Scriptures, neither the power of God?","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"The Power of God assures us it may be so, and the word of God tells us it must be so.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Is it sinful to doubt of the Doctrine of the Resurrection?","answer":"’Tis not only a sin to doubt it, but an heresy to deny it, it being a fundamental Article. And of the resurrection of the dead. But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen; and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.","segments":[{"text":"’Tis not only a sin to doubt it, but an heresy to deny it, it being a fundamental Article.","proofs":["Hebrews 6:2"],"refs":[{"printed":"Hebrews 6:2","osis":["Heb.6.2"]}],"note":null},{"text":"And of the resurrection of the dead.","proofs":["1 Corinthians 15:13–14"],"refs":[{"printed":"1 Corinthians 15:13–14","osis":["1Cor.15.13-1Cor.15.14"]}],"note":null},{"text":"But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen; and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Who must rise again at the Resurrection?","answer":"All men, good and bad, must rise again. And have hope towards God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust. And I saw the dead small and great, stand before God, &c.","segments":[{"text":"All men, good and bad, must rise again.","proofs":["Acts 24:15"],"refs":[{"printed":"Acts 24:15","osis":["Acts.24.15"]}],"note":null},{"text":"And have hope towards God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust.","proofs":["Revelation 20:12–14"],"refs":[{"printed":"Revelation 20:12–14","osis":["Rev.20.12-Rev.20.14"]}],"note":null},{"text":"And I saw the dead small and great, stand before God,","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"&c.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"What is the first difference betwixt the Resurrection of the just and unjust?","answer":"Saints rise by virtue of their union with Christ. But if the spirit of him that raised up Iesus from the dead well in you; he that raised up Christ from the dead, shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his spirit that dwelleth in you. But 〈◊〉 wicked by his power.","segments":[{"text":"Saints rise by virtue of their union with Christ.","proofs":["Romans 8:11"],"refs":[{"printed":"Romans 8:11","osis":["Rom.8.11"]}],"note":null},{"text":"But if the spirit of him that raised up Iesus from the dead well in you; he that raised up Christ from the dead, shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his spirit that dwelleth in you.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null},{"text":"But 〈◊〉 wicked by his power.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"What is the second difference?","answer":"The second and main difference will be in the contrary ends to which they rise, some to life, and some to condemnation. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some 〈◊〉 shame, and everlasting contempt.","segments":[{"text":"The second and main difference will be in the contrary ends to which they rise, some to life, and some to condemnation.","proofs":["Daniel 12:2"],"refs":[{"printed":"Daniel 12:2","osis":["Dan.12.2"]}],"note":null},{"text":"And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some 〈◊〉 shame, and everlasting contempt.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"What is the glory to which Saints bodies shall 〈◊〉 raised?","answer":"In the likeness of Christ’s glorious Body. Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like to 〈◊〉 glorious body.","segments":[{"text":"In the likeness of Christ’s glorious Body.","proofs":["Philippians 3:21"],"refs":[{"printed":"Philippians 3:21","osis":["Phil.3.21"]}],"note":null},{"text":"Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like to 〈◊〉 glorious body.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"What is the First inference from hence?","answer":"That every man should strive to the uttermost to attain to the Resurrection of the just. That I may know him, and the power of his Resurrection, and the fellowship of the sufferings, being made conformable unto his death, if by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead.","segments":[{"text":"That every man should strive to the uttermost to attain to the Resurrection of the just.","proofs":["Philippians 3:10–11"],"refs":[{"printed":"Philippians 3:10–11","osis":["Phil.3.10-Phil.3.11"]}],"note":null},{"text":"That I may know him, and the power of his Resurrection, and the fellowship of the sufferings, being made conformable unto his death, if by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"What is the second Inference?","answer":"Comfort to them that now groan under manifold Distempers, and Deformities of Body; they being made equal to Angels. For when they shall rise from the dead they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the Angels which are in heaven.","segments":[{"text":"Comfort to them that now groan under manifold Distempers, and Deformities of Body; they being made equal to Angels.","proofs":["Mark 12:25"],"refs":[{"printed":"Mark 12:25","osis":["Mark.12.25"]}],"note":null},{"text":"For when they shall rise from the dead they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the Angels which are in heaven.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"What is the third inference?","answer":"Get union with Christ by Faith, as you expect a joyful Resurrection. Iesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, und the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.","segments":[{"text":"Get union with Christ by Faith, as you expect a joyful Resurrection.","proofs":["John 11:25"],"refs":[{"printed":"John 11:25","osis":["John.11.25"]}],"note":null},{"text":"Iesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, und the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"What is the fourth Inference?","answer":"Saints should not fear Death. Fear not to go down into Egypt.","segments":[{"text":"Saints should not fear Death.","proofs":["Genesis 46:3"],"refs":[{"printed":"Genesis 46:3","osis":["Gen.46.3"]}],"note":null},{"text":"Fear not to go down into Egypt.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"What is the last Inference?","answer":"Imploy your Bodies for good now.","segments":[{"text":"Imploy your Bodies for good now.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]}],"text":null}