The fort-royal of the Scriptures, or, The vade-mecum concordance presenting unto the world an hundred heads of Scripture, most of them common-placed for publique use : wherein all (especially the weaker sort of Christians) may suddenly command most of all the rarities in the book of God / by an admirer of the word.

XCVIII. Resurrection.

Generals.

If a man die he shall rise again, Iob 14.14.

God will redeem our soul from the power of the grave, for he will receive us, Ps. 49.15.

If Christ be risen, there must needs be a resurrection from the dead, 1 Cor 15.15, 16.

All possible helps are few enough to attaine unto the resurrection of the dead, Phil, 3.11.

Them that are asleep in Jesus, wil God bring with him, 1 Thes. 4.14.

They that sleep in the dust, of the earth shall awake,

Some to everlasting life, and some to shame and contempt, Da. 12.2

God is not the God of the dead, but of the living, Mat. 22.23.

As in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all he made alive, 1 Cor. 15.22

Though after our skin worms destroy the body, yet in our flesh, we shal see God Iob 9.25

The houre commeth when all that are in the graves, shall hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear his voice shall live, John 5.25.

God turnes men un∣to dust, and again hee sayes, return ye sonnes of Adam. Ps. 90.3.

It was typified by the vision of Ezekiels dry bones, Ezrk. 37.4.

Eyek. 37.4.

The Jewes by tradi∣tion knew the resur∣rection, from the dead, Luk. 20.27.

There is an allusion into it to comfort the distressed estate of the Church, Isa. 26, 19.

Those who have been planted with Christ, ac∣cording to the simili∣tude of his death, even so shal they be accord∣ing to the similitude of his resurrection, Ro. 6.5

Christ shal send his Angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and shall gather his Elect from the foure windes, from one end of the earth to other, Mat. 24.31

If wee believe that Jesus is dead, and rose again, even so also them that sleep in Je∣sus, will God bring with him, 1 Thes. 4.14.

Tryals.

Christ is the resurre∣ction and the life; those dead, believing in him shal live, John 11.25.

It is God who quick∣neth the dead, and calleth things that are not as though they were Rom. 4.17.

God who raised Christ will raise us up, by his own power, 1 Cor. 6.14 As by man came death so by man came also the Resurrection from the dead, 1 Cor. 15.21.

As we have born the Image of the earthly, so shall we also beare the Image of the heavenly, 1 Cor. 15.49.

God giveth the dead a body at his pleasure 1 Cor. 15.38.

We shal not all sleep, but we shal all be chan∣ged, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye 1 Cor. 15.51.

Christ shal change our vile bodies, and make them like unto his glorious body, Ph. 3.21

In the Resurrection they neither marry, nor

are married, but are as the Angels in Heaven Mat. 22.30,

Encouragements

That the body shal rise againe, and not be left in the grave, is matter of gladnesse, rejoicing & confidence, Ps. 16 9.

That notwithstanding death in our flesh, wee shal see God, Iob 19.25 That God wil ransome us from the power of the grave, Hos. 13.14. Christ wil lose none gi∣ven him, but raise them up at the last day, Ioh. 6.39

Order.

Christ the first fruits,

Afterwards they that are Christs,, at his comming, 1 Cor. 11.23.

The Lord himself shall discend from heaven with a shout, and with the voice of the Arch-Angel, and the trump of God,

And the dead in Christ shall rise first, 1 Thes. 4.16.

Then we which are alive, shal be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the Ayre, 1 Thes. 4.17.

Those that are alive at the comming of the Lord, shal not prevent them that are asleepe, 1 Thes. 4.15.

Manner.

Then God giveth at his pleasure bodies, as to the rotted and revi∣ved corn, 1 Cor. 15.38.

It is sowed in cor∣ruption, and is raised in incorruption 1 Cor. i5.42

It is sowen a natuall body, and it is raised a spirituall 1 Cor. 15.44.

Ʋse.

Serious meditations thereof, causes us to keep a good conscience before God and before men, Act. 24.16.