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A51256 Instruction to the living, from the consideration of the future state of the dead, or, The doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment by Christ as evidenced in the testimony of Christ, as the sum of it was delivered at the funerall of Mrs. Elizabeth Harrison, in Boston, Jan. 1657/8 / by Tho. Moore Junior. Moore, Thomas, Junior. 1659 (1659) Wing M2603; ESTC R3375 92,440 70

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our selves or others at any of those great and deep things of God contained in the testimony of Christ according to that Pro. 26. 4 5. Answer not a Fool according to his folly least thou also become like unto him Answer a Fool according to his folly least he be wise in his own conceite 1 Not to seek to answer them in their own way or so as we become like unto them in the use of such carnall weapons for confirming the truth as they use against it for that grants the way good that indeed is evill of measuring the truth of God by mans Imagination or endeavouring to bring it down to the comprehension of his blind and corrupted reason nor hath that any promise of Gods presence with it for reproving and convincing yea whatever faith is that way produced rests but in the wisdome and strength of man therefore the Apostles avoyded it 1 Cor. 1. 17 18 c. 2. tot 2 Cor. 10. 3 4. But 2. So to answer them with his words and in his way as the folly and vanity of their way of reasoning in which they desire by their carnall wisdome to finde out comprehend and be satisfied about the things of God in Christ may appear by opposing to them the greatnesse of God and the unsearchablenesse of his works and ways past finding out as well in that which he hath already done in the person of Christ as also in that which he doth in his dayly dispensations and providences And in that which he will doe and bring forth by him of which he hath given assurance in what he hath already done in all which his judgments are unsearchable He raiseth the dead why then should it be thought incredible that he should doe whatever he saith he doth or promiseth he will do though we cannot comprehend how such a thing should be If when God saith that he so teacheth man knowledge that that which may be known of God is manifest in them even in them that had not the records of the Scriptures among them yea in their hearts that liked not to retain it there And that his goodnesse doth lead those men to repentance that yet harden their hearts and are not led by it If then any reply against God and say how can this thing be this seemes absurd or will not stand with such traditions or apprehensions of God which we have taken up from our Fathers or with our reason seek not then to satisfie his reason in that way it desires satisfaction or to bring the great things of God down to it but to the Law to the Testimony what is written how readest thou and if God say it its meet for us to believe it for with him no word or work is unpossible no not to raise the dead and let that stop the mouth of further inquiry how such a thing can be as the Apostle when he would demonstrate that that which may be known of God is manifest in them he useth this onely as a sufficient demonstration that God hath showed it unto them Rom. 1. 19 20. For who teacheth like him or who hath enjoyned him his way c. Job 36. 22. 23-26 who then art thou oh vain man that replyest against God that raiseth the Dead We come now to the Doctrine mainly contained and spoken too in the text to wit the Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Dead and of eternall judgment by Christ In this Declaration of it by our Saviour we have set before us 1 What the Resurrection and Judgment spoken of is As to the subject of it that is to be raised and judged 2 The time of it 3 Some intimation of the order of it 4 The meanes or power by which it shall be effected 5 The different state of Persons in the Resurrection or ends to which they shall be raised 1 What the Resurrection and Judgment spoken of is As to the subject of it This is clearly intimated and fully expressed to be the quickening or raising up of the dead Bodies of men after death hath fully ceized on them a raising them up in a sensible being and capable of partaking off and possessing everlasting glory or everlasting shame and horror And so the making alive the dead Bodies of men by Christ in an answerable sence to that dying or death that passeth on them all by the one man Adam as 1 Cor. 15. 21 22. A totall redeeming them from the first death and the grave And bringing them forth in soul and body reunited to their eternall judgment 1 This is clearly intimated in his saying marvell not at this namely at his former declaration of the present power and efficacy of his voyce or word on the spirits of men while in this body making those dead in sins and trespasses to hear and spiritually quickening and making alive such as in hearing hear and then adding as a reason why they should not marvell at that this further Declaration of the mighty power of his voyce as it shall be after manifested in raising and bringing forth all that are in the Graves which being added as a farther declaration of the mighty power of and in it to take them off from their sinfull marvelling at the former signifies that the Resurrection and bringing forth of the Graves here spoken of as the efficacy of his voyce is not the same efficacy of it with that forementioned But another thing distinct from it yea a greater and more wonderfull efficacy of the same voyce of the son of man And is as much as to say Marvell not that I said unto you that those dead in sins and trespasses shall hear the voyce of the Son of God And they that hear in that hearing given them shall have their spirits quickened and made alive for righteousnesse sake while yet the body is dead because of sin for loe a greater and more marveilous work then this shall be effected by it even all that are in the Graves shall hear it and shall come forth some to the resurrection of life and some to the resurrection of damnation so that in this our Saviour signifies the resurrection of the dead or bringing them forth of their Graves to Judgment to be another work and distinct from the work of spirituall vivification yea a greater and more wonderfull work then any work that is now working or wrought by his voyce on the spirits of men while yet the body is dead in the first death or that reignes on it as the fruit of sin which distinct and greater work can be no other but the quickening or raising up of the mortall body yea the totall redemption from the first death for those spirituall quickening efficacies of his word on mens spirits now are expresly mentioned in the foregoing verses as greater works then those of healing any bodily Infirmities verses 20 21 25. yea those are the greater works that our Saviour promises they that believe on him should do
the same faith of the operation of God who hath raised him he saith not us but him from the dead still we are dead and our life is hid with Christ in God who also hath begotten us by and through the resurrection of Christ to a lively hope of an Inheritance incorruptible and that sadeth not away reserved in Heaven for us who are kept by the power of God through faith unto the salvation ready to be revealed in the last time unto which he that raised up Christ from the dead will also raise us up by Christ at his coming Till then the resurrection of the dead is not in a full or proper sence attained by any but the Head for us all Some there are I know that would not have us understand the Resurrection of the body to be meant in that first resurrection spoken of Revel 20. 5 6. But some spirituall quickening reviving or enlargement given to such Persons in this corruptible time and state of the World And the pretended ground of their cavill against the understanding the resurrection of the body to be there meant is from John's saying that he saw the soules of such and they lived and reigned with Christ The soules says John Not the bodies therefore say they For the clearing of that therefore consider 1 That sometime by the soul is meant the whole Person of the man or men spoken of both soul and body together as Gen. 12. 5. 46. 15 18 22 27. with Deut. 10. 12. Rev. 18. 13. with Ezek. 27. 13. 2 That the soul as well as the body may be said to be dead to us though not in it selfe or unto God All live to him Luk. 20. 38. And so the soul departing out of the body yet retaines a sensible being while the body is in dust But so as under the Altar in a disappearing state as to us having no fellowship or converse with us nor any more any reward o● portion of the things done under the Sun nor shall they appear again or be visible and so living to us untill in the body at the resurrection of the body And so in this vision John saw the soules not as chap. 6. 9 under the Altar as still remaining in a disappearing state of death as to us But coming forth and appearing That is soul and body together the whole persons of those spoken off And they lived c. Yea 3 That the resurrection of the Podies of those that sleep in Jusus is there meant by the living again of the soules of such which is there called the first resurrection is clear in that it s spoken of as a work passing upon them after death and not before Some of them had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus before they thus lived again and yet their very persons lived again in that first resurrection as seen in the vision yea the rest of that Company that have part in the first resurrection were dead before they so lived again or immediatly changed with such a change as is answerable to death as appeares by his saying of all the residue that have not part in that first resurrection The rest of the dead lived not again till the thousand years were finished Then it seemes these were all of the dead before they thus lived again Likewise 4 Its further evident in that this living again of those is called the first resurrection with relation to and as distinguished from the resurrection or living again of the rest of the dead after the thousand yeares of Christs personall reigne on the Earth shall be finished And as opposed to their not living again till that time be expired And that that Resurrection or living again of the rest of the dead that shall be at the end of that time is the Resurrection of their dead Bodies is clear in that explication that follows The Sea gave up the dead which were in it now it s their dead Bodies that were in the Sea And death the first death and Hell or the grave or disappearing state of death delivered up the dead which were in them By all which it appeares that by the first resurrection is meant that resurrection of all that are his peculiar people at his coming to take the Kingdome and reigne that is spoken of 1 Cor. 15. 23. 1 Thess 4. 14 16. In which their vile Bodies shall be wholly redeemed from death and fashioned into the likenesse of his glorious Body for which all true Believers are here waiters Rom. 8. 23. Phil. 3. 11 21. Yea the resurrection of the dead is here expressed to be such a work as shall be effected by the power of his mighty voyce on all both just and unjust And therefore though the just or those that sleep in Jesus now before his coming and those of them that survive at his appearing shall have their ●●●stnesse in it And all the righteous shall have the only blessednesse of it Yet the resurrection simply is not their peculiar priviledge or portion or a work only to be accomplished on them but on all the dead that dye in Adam 2 Such also it is here expressed to be as in which all that are in the Graves shall come forth a work exceeding or going beyond that in which some received their dead to life again Hebr. 11. 35. and that in which some dead Bodies of Saints arose and came forth of their Graves and lived again some time amongst men in this corruptible state of the World as Lazarus Joh. 11. and others Math. 27. 52 53. In which yet there was a glorious manifestation of the great power of God in and by Christ for raising all the dead wholly out of the first death in due time But in these it cannot be said that the persons so raised and brought forth were wholly redeemed from death and from the power of the Grave nor therein brought to the full enjoyment or possession of that eternall life and glory to which they were called by the Gospell and therefore neither is that called the resurrection of them from the dead yea they are still said to be expecting a better resurrection God having provided some better things for us that they without us should not be made perfect Hebr. 11. 35-40 But the resurrection of the dead that which is so called in Scripture and is so in a full and proper sence is such as in which all that are in the Graves which also may signifie generally the disappearing state of death because in that as in the Grave they are hidden from us though not from him that hides them there as Job 14. 13. with Psal 139. 12. even all that sleep in the dust of the Earth shall awake and shall come forth some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt Dan. 12. 2. He will ransome them from the power of the Grave redeem them from death The first death and the Grave that now hides them shall be
wholly destroyed so that there shall be no more darknesse or shadow of death in which the workers of iniquity may hide themselves Hose 13. 14. Revel 20. 13 14. Job 34. 22. All that are in the Graves shall hear his voyce and shall come forth now how or in what consideration of them they are in the Grave or dust of the Earth is evident that it is in the flesh or body as distinct from the spirit or soul which departs out of the body at death and returnes to God that gave it to be appointed to its proper place either of prison or liberty till the resurrection of the body At death the dust returnes to the Earth as it was and the spirit returnes to God that gave it Eccles 12. 7. In death there is no difference between a man and a Beast as to outward appearance But there is this great difference to be believed though no man can by sence perceive it or by Philosophy comprehend it That the spirit of a Man goeth upward whereas the spirit of a Beast goeth downward to the Earth Eccles 3. 20 21. Hence 't is said of Rachel that her soul departed when she dyed Gen. 35. 18. So David saw corruption his flesh or body did turn to dust when as notwithstanding his spirit was with other spirits of just men made perfect as far as the spirit without the body is capable Now then the resurrection of the dead is such as in which the flesh or body that sleepes in the dust of the Earth shall be wholly redeemed from death and the Grave from that death to which the Grave is annexed even that death which presently turns them to corruption and dust if they rest in it All that are in the Graves shall come forth even all the dead Bodies of men that sleep in the dust of the Earth And shall never more return to dust again or be hidden in the Grave or any such disappearing state of death which unspeakably addes to the happinesse of those that have done well And to the misery and terror of the other Furthermore That the resurrection shall be of the same bodyes of men that dye in and from Adam even of the same that returnes to dust and corruption in those that sleep or rest in death That the selfe same shall be raised by Christ and made alive from that death though it shall not be raised the same or in the same quality yet that it even the dead the same body that dyes and is dead shall be raised and not another thing or body in the stead of it is evident from the resurrection of Christ which is both as hath been hinted already The foundation of the resurrection of the dead and also the first fruites of the same As saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 15 20. But now is Christ risen from the dead and become the first fruites of them that slept whence also he calls him the first born from the dead Coll. 1. 18. Now as the Apostle in another case argues the lump or harvest must needs be such as is the first fruites of the like nature or kind as Rom. 11. 16. If therefore the resurrection of Christ was the raising up from the dead of the same body that dyed in which he bore our sins to the Tree even Jesus of the seed of David after the flesh Then it follows necessarily that the resurrection of the dead by him is the raising up and making alive from that death the same bodies that dye in Adam else his resurrection in the same body in which he dyed could not be the first fruites of theirs But that the resurrection of Christ was of the same body that was hung upon the Tree and dyed is most clear First from his own demonstration of it after his resurrection and before his being taken up In all which he shewed saith the text Act. 1. 3. himselfe to them alive after his passion or suffering by many infallible proofes himselfe alive after his passion himselfe that suffered and dyed the same himselfe alive again after that his passion himselfe the same man the same person the same Jesus of Nazareth And in the same body in which he suffered and dyed and that was laid in the Sepulchre as we may see more fully and particularly in the narrations as Luk. 24. 39 40. Behold my hands and my feet that it is I my selfe handle me and see for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as yee see me have And when he had thus spoken he shewed them his hands and his feet Again vers 46 47. It was necessary that the same Christ that suffered and dyed should rise again the third day And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name Likewise Joh. 20. After they had been at the Sepulchre and found not the body of Jesus there Jesus himselfe appeared to them and after some reasoning with them he shewed them his hands and his feet Then saith the Text were the Disciples glad when they saw the Lord vers 20. Again vers 27 Then saith he to Thomas reach hither thy finger and behold my hands and reach hither thy hand and thrust it into my side and be not faithlesse but believing Thomas having said before vers 25. That unlesse he should see in his hands the print of the nayles and put his finger into the print of the nayles namely by which he was nayled to the Cross And thrust his hand into his side namely that was pierced with a Spear Joh. 19. 34. he would not believe For which though he deserved reproofe and went not without it yet our Saviour graciously condiscended to his weaknesse for our further confirmation Secondly this is also most clear from the holy Ghosts Testimony of him after his ascension and being received up into Heaven That it was the same that the Jewes slew and hung on a Tree whom God had raised and exalted with his right hand a Prince and a Saviour And whom the Heaven must receive till the restitution of all things Act. 5. 30 31. 3. 13 21. He even the same that was dead is alive for evermore and hath the keyes of Hell and death Rev. 1. 18. This man continues for ever even the man Christ Jesus And therefore is a powerfull Mediator and high Priest Hebr. 7. 23 24 26. 1 Tim. 2. 5 6 See it very largely and expresly demonstrated Act. 2. 22-36 13. 23 38. That that man Jesus of Nazareth of the seed of David after the flesh who had been approved by God amongst his enemies by miracles and signes as they also knew Him whom they by wicked hands had crucified and slain Him God had raised up having loosed the paines of death because it was not possible that he should be holden of it That David being a Prophet and knowing that God had sworne with an oath to him That of the fruit of his loynes according to the flesh he would raise
is in this World so are they but when Christ who is their life shall appear then shall they also appear with him in glory Yea at the time of the naturall and bodily death The difference between them is wider and so fixed or firmely made that it can never more be altered The righteous hath hope in his death yea from thenceforth more then ever blessed for they rest from their labours their spirits with the Lord which is far better then to be in the flesh or body as in this its corruptible state yea their dead body sleepes in union with Jesus by reason of which it shall arise and come with him they are now wholly out of the reach of the enimies they have no more that they can doe and their works follow them But on the other hand the wicked is driven away in his wickednesse the hope of the hipocrite shall then perish Then and from thence they are shut up in prison to the judgement of the great day Yea from thence forth for ever shut out driven forth into outer darknesse where shall be weeping wailing and gnashing of teeth Pro. 14 32. Job 8. 13. 27. 8 1 Pet. 3. 19. 20. 2 Pet. 2. 9. Math. 22. 13. Yea from that time between these two there is a great gulfe fixed that he that would passe from the one to the other cannot Luk. 16. 26. But yet this difference is not visible nor otherwise to be seene but by faith Therefore here we walke by faith and not by sight But there shall be a visible and man●fest difference made and infinitly great between him that feareth God and him that feareth him not between the sheep and the Goats in that day Mall 3 16. 17. 18. Mat. 25. 31. c. The one shall come forth to the resurrection of life the other to the resu●rection of damnation First they that have done good to the resurrection of life 1. In the resurrection they shall come forth in a glorious state of life capable of enjoying and possessing in soule and body reunited that eternall life that is now in Christ with God These bodies that are now vile and mortall shall then put on immortality and be fashioned into the likenesse of his glorious body we waite for the adoption that is the redemption of the the body Phil. 3. 21. Rom. 8. 23. 2. They shall then come forth unto the full enjoyment and possession of that eternall life that is in the face and presence of God in the light of his countenance and glorious fellowship with him for they shall see him as he is and be glorified together with him and so be ever with the Lord in the glorious enjoyment of his joy and glory which eye hath no seen besides thee oh God nor hath it entred into the heart of man to perceive or comprehend how great and glorious things are contained in that hope and promise of eternall life which God hath laid up and reserved in heaven for them They shall then and from thence for ever fully and gloriously possesse all the glorious reward end and fruit of his sufferings and sacrifice for them yea as the fruit of that there shall then be a particular and everlasting remembrance of all their service of him and suffering for his name in their generation yea all the fruits of faith and love that have been brought forth by them shall then be remembred and recompensed at the resurrection of the just Isa 61. 3-6 7. 1 Cor. 15. 58. 2 Cor. 4. 10-17 Luk. 14. 14. Math. 25. 33-40 And none of their former iniquities transgressions or sins shall be retained or remembred against them for ever nor any of the fruit of them any more sustained or tasted by them Psal 130. 8. Isa 25. 8. Revel 7. 14-17 21. 4. 5. Then they shall be compleatly enriched and beautified with the perfection of that knowledge of him Peace and joy in him conformity to him and fellowship with him which now they enjoy through faith but in some first fruits or earnest of the spirit Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection on such the second death hath no power but they shall be Priests and Kings unto God and shall raigne with Christ on the earth 1000 yeares yea they shall be ever with the Lord partakeing off and possessing his glory Revel 20. 6. and 5. 10. 1 Joh. 3. 1 2. 1 Thess 4. 14-17 Secondly after that first resurrection and yet in that great day of the Lord in the time of that administration of his kingdome on the earth as is shewed before They that have done evil shall come forth to the resurrection of damnation Even of eternall damnation 1. In their resurrection they shall come forth not in such a quallity or state of mortalliy as they were now in from Adam But made alive from that death And so from the power of it and of the grave in such a state or quallity as they can never more cease to be and to retaine a sencible being from that time and for ever in the lake of fire where their worme dyeth not and their fire is not quenched Their raised bodies yea the being of soule and body in that state of the resurrection shall be such as no torments whatsoever no not the everlasting burnings that shall be kindled by the breath of the Lord shall ever put an end to the being of either or cause a separation between them as the first death did though far lesse terrible and grievous then this they being then in that weake and mortall state as from Adam And under the ordinance of that death But now in this state in which they shall come forth in the resurrection there shal be no darkness nor shadow of death in which the workers of iniquiry may hide themselves death and hell or the grave when they are raised out of it shall be cast into the lake of fire with them this is the second death Job 34. 22. Hose 13. 14. 1 Cor. 15. 22. 26. Revel 20. 14. 2. And so they shall come forth to the resurrection of Damnation even to receive by the righteous judgement of him that dyed for them as it shall be fully evidenced according to the Gospell to his glory in their condemnation that dreadfull sentence in the full and eternall execution of it depart from me yee workers of iniquity goe yee cursed into everlasting punishment even into everlasting fire prepared for the devill and his Angells Math. 25. 31. 32 41 46. Mark 3. 29. 9. 43 46. They shall be for ever utterly separated from his face and presence and without any mixture of mercy suffer in soule and body for ever the utmost vengeance and torment that is the proper wages of and belongs to him to repay for their treading under foote the son of God counting an unholy thing the bloud of the covenant wherewith they were sanctified and offering despite unto the spirit of grace
that the Father is by whom and for whom all things were made that were made yea all Thrones Dominions Principallities and Powers and so he the proper Lord and Heyre of all the Kingdome and Glory and of all things and Persons that were made by his Divine and eternall Generation Joh. 1. 1 2 3. Coll 1. 15 16. Prov 8. 22 c. which shewes the excellency of his person and so his abillity for all he undertook by the appointment of the Father for our help and escape And argues the vilenesse of our sin and the wretchedness of our condition by reason of sin seeing righteousnesse help and escape for us could not be had or found in any lesse price or ransome or by any other meanes or way attained But by the so deep abasement and suffering of so excellent a Person Gods only begotten Son The Lord from Heaven As likewise it infinitely commends the unspeakable love of God of the Father and of Christ In the Fathers free devizeing appointing and not sparing but sending forth his own and only Son and Heire to be so abased and delivering Him to such a death And in the Sons so willing and ready giving Himselfe in and through such abasement and sufferings to be a ransome or price of redemption for our sins Notwithstanding he was in the form of God and we wholly sinfull weake ungodly and enemies Further in this acknowledgment and profession of Jesus to be the Lord that is in this word of faith is contained That he is now actually made and become the same in that body prepared for him in mans nature in which he suffered and bore our sins to the Tree the same that he was as the eternall and only begotten Son of God before being through sufferings entred into his glory And glorified with the Fathers own selfe even with the same glory he had with him before the World was Phill. 2. 6 9. 10 11. Luk. 24. 26. Joh. 17. 4 5. Hebr. 2. 9 10. The Man Christ Jesus even that Jesus of Nazareth whom they crucified not an other thing or person God hath made him the Lord and Christ Act. 2. 36. He is the Son of God the Saviour of the World exalted with Gods right hand a Prince and Saviour for to give repentance and forgivenesse of sins 1 Joh. 4. 14. Act. 5. 31. yea he is the Lord and Judge of all by purchase and that in the name of the Father Rom. 14. 9 10 11 12. Act. 10. 36 42. The word was made flesh and the glory with which God hath cloathed him in that flesh or body which he prepared for him is the glory of the only begotten Son of God full of grace and truth Joh. 1. 14. He it is by whom the Father judgeth all men and executeth judgment also because he is the Son of Man Joh. 5. 22 27. And so he by in and through whom he justifieth the ungodly Act. 10. 43 with ch 5. 31. 13. 38 39. yea he will judge the World in righteousnesse by that Man whom he hath ordained whereof he hath given assurance to all men in that he hath raised him from the dead of which in the next place Act. 17 31. Nor is there any other name given under Heaven whereby we may be saved or shall be judged But the name of that Jesus of Nazareth This is the stone c. Act. 4. 10 11 12. Every spirit therefore what ever they may seem to speak of Gods love to manward or of his justifying the ungodly or judging the World That confesseth not that same Jesus of Nazareth That is already comed in the flesh and hath finished the works the Father gave him to do on Earth and is raised from the dead for our justification That confesseth him not as so to be the Lord by whom the Father judgeth all men and doth and will execute judgment because he is the son of man And so the Fountain and Well-spring of all justification and of all grace to Manward that through him they might be saved That spirit is not of God But of that spirit of Antichrist whereof we have heard that it should come into the World and even now already is it in the World For in this word of faith which is of the holy Ghost the true spirit The Son of Man even that Jesus of Nazareth is acknowledged and lifted up As the Lord of all Grace and Glory the Author and finisher of our Faith 1 Cor. 12. 3. 1 Joh. 4. 2. 5. 1. 5 Hebr. 12. 2. Ioh. 16. 14. with ch 5. 14. Iam. 2. 1. 2 There is likewise in it a testification of him That God hath raised him up from the dead who was delivered and dyed for our sins 1 Cor. 15. 3 4. 12-15 with Rom. 4. 24 25. 10. 9. That God hath raised up from the dead Jesus Christ our Lord who is the same Person that was delivered for our offences That God hath raised and exalted him after a like consideration of his Person after which he was delivered for our offences which renders his resurrection to be in an answerable sence for our justification as his being delivered was for our offences Now then for our understanding what is contained in this testimony It s considerable 1. Who it is That was Delivered and after what Consideration of him he was delivered for our offences 2. For whose offences he was delivered And 3. For what offences or for what severall sorts or kinds of offences and on what termes or how for them of each sort or kind In the understanding of which we shall also perceive what the Resurrection of Christ is that is testifyed off in this voyce of the Son of man the Word of faith And how that Resurrection is for our justification 1. It is Jesus the Lord The word that was made flesh even that only begotten Son of God whom he sent forth in the fulnesse of time made of a woman of the seed of David after the flesh That Jesus of Nazareth that was borne of the Virgin Mary in Bethlehem of Judeah in the Dayes of Cesar Augustus He it is that was delivered for our offences and in that his own personall Body which the Father prepared for him by the Immediate and wonderfull work of the holy Ghost in the womb of the Virgin For though the Father did make his soul an offering for our sin yet that was in that his owne body in which also he bore them to the tree and gave himselfe for our sins and when he gave up the Ghost The suffering work was finished Compare Isa 53. 4 -10. with 1 Pet. 2. 24. and Joh. 19. 30. He suffered the just for the unjust being put to death in or after the flesh 1 Pet. 3. 18. If then the flesh or Body of Christ for as much as therein he bore our sins to the tree and was delivered to the Judgment and to the prison for our offences if therefore I say that