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VVHen I see the earth to bring forth all things that are committed unto it, my hope is confir∣med, and my joy increased, because I know it must one day r••store our bodies com∣mitted in trust unto it, and then the year of the great Jubile will come, when such as groan under their burden and all the lands Prisoners shall be set at li∣berty: For the just in Christ (saith David) shal flourish as the Palm tree, which though it have many weights at the
top, and many snakes at the root; yet is it still nei∣ther oppr••ssed with the weights, distressed with the snakes: so though the earth oppresse us, and th•• worms devour us, when our Salva∣tion draweth neer at hand, we shall lift up our heads again, & shall no more die, but death and corruption shall die in us. Then may ev••ry one of us sing with David, I layd me down and sl••pt, and rose up again, for the Lord sustained mee: O my God, how many things hast thou ordained to strength∣en my faith? and to con∣firm my hope herein? For the sun setteth and is closed up in darknesse, and yet ri∣seth again the next mor∣ing. The moon waneth e∣very
moneth, and becom∣eth small or nothing to our sight; yet it groweth again to her glorious and former light. The trees in winter are as dead before us, and all their beautifull leaves withered, wasted and fallen away; yet when the spring commeth they revive again, and are gor∣geously cloathed as be∣fore. The Lion being too long ere he finde his prey, when he comme••h home he findeth his whelps dead, and with his very roaring revi∣veth them again. The Peli∣can by her blood reviveth her young ones. The Phe∣nix from her dead ashes re∣ceiveth life. The Serpent being cut in twain by ly∣ing a while in the dung,
knitteth her self and revi∣veth again. Many small birds for the Winter lie in fens, holes and caves and trees, as buried and dead; yet rise again in Spring and sing melodiously. Lastly, what is our bed but the I∣mage of our graves? the clothes that covers us of the dust and earth cast upon us? The little flea that biteth us, of the wormes that shall consume us? The Co••k that croweth, of the last Trum∣pet. Therefore, as I rise up lustily when sluggish sleep is past; so I hope to ris•• Joyfully to Judgment at the last.
G••••nt me, O Lord a live∣ly
faith,* 1.1 not to sorrow for my brethren that sleep in thee,* 1.2 as one without hope; but rath••r to watch for the day of my redemption and the glorious comming of my saviour to deliver me from thi body of sinne;* 1.3 that my vile body may be made like his gl••rious body, and that in the mean time whether I sl••ep or wake, I may continually hear the sound of thy Trumpe in mine ear, saying, Arise ye dead and come unto judgement;* 1.4 and at last be ravished with the sweet sentence of my Sa∣viour, Venite Benedicti, &c.
1 Cor. 15.
Mat. 24.
Rm. 9.7.
Phil. 3.21.