What is the vse of the Doctrine of Resurrection?
1. It is a common comfort.
1. Against all calamities, persecutions, sicknesses, and despights wherewith our bodies are molested in this lifea 1.1.
2. Against our sorrow for the death of friendsb 1.2.
3. Against the terrour of death approachingc 1.3.
2. It is a bridle, whereby we are withdrawne from sinne, & as a spurre, wherewith we keepe our bodies holy and pure, vnto im∣mortall glorie, and by which we are stirred vp to goe on forward in true godlinesse, and holinesse. Whereupon, saith Hierome, Whe∣ther I eate, or drinke, or doe any thing else, alwaies that terrible voice soundeth in mine eares, Arise yee dead, come vnto iudgement.
3. It warneth vs that wee honour the bodies of the Saints, that we bury them honorably, and that wee keepe cleane those places, wherein the bodies of the Saints, as it were brought a sleepe, do lie hid, vntill they shall bee raised vp by the trumpet of the Archangell.