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A Word concerning the Resurrection.
THE Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared unto many, among whom I am come to give you notice, (though a most unworthy Messenger) That he is now come to exalt his Son in his saints. and set him upon his holy hill; glory for evermore.
But many there are who with Martha do look for the Resurrection at the last day without, and so put the day of his Resurrection in them, far from them, (as believing no such thing) and saying, How can this be? when in the mean time Christ lyes slain in some of them; and o∣thers are so far from the holy Life of Christ, that they are dead in trespasses and sins, and some twice pluckt up by the roots, neither knowing their Saviour within them, nor Without them.
Art thou one that knowest nothing of the resurrection of Christ in thee, then know that thou art not to look out to a day without thee, for the resurrection of Christ, but in Spiritual Sodomand Aegypt, where he lyes still crucified, art thou to ex∣pect