Q. 40. What beleevest thou of Christs rising the third day?
A. He rose againe, not by re-uniting his body to his God-head, for they were never severed by death, for being Crucifyed, hee was still the Lord of glory. 1 Cor. 2. 8. But by re-uniting Soule and body together, and taking his life againe, which before he had laid downe. Iohn 10. 17. And hee himselfe had power to doe it. verse. 18. To bee Lord of quick and dead. Rom. 14. 9. And this hee did the third day. 1 Cor. 15. 4. Namely, the third day from his suffering passively, verse. 3. And therfore the space is called by the Scripture, the space of three dayes. John 2. 19. And because that every day hath a night belonging to it, it is called the space of three nights too. Math. 12. 40. That as by man came death, so by man also might come the resurrection of the dead. 1 Cor: 13. 21. Himself being the first fruits of them that sleepe, verse. 20. And the first borne from the dead. Col. 1. 18. And the first begotten of the dead: Rev. 1. 5. And dyeth no more. Rom. 6. 9. And therefore those that rose before Christ, as the Shunamites child. 2 Kings 4. 35. And Lazarus and the rest rose again to a mortall life. Iohn 11. 44.