He desired some to pray
with him, and he joined with them in prayer; and his last words,
after he had struggled with a languishing disease, were these: 'Weep
not for me, but for yourselves. I go to the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, who will, through the mediation of his blessed Son, receive
me, though a sinner; where I hope we ere long shall meet to sing the
new song, and remain everlastingly happy, world without end.'"
XXV. THE RESURRECTION.
The doctrine of the resurrection, however questioned by heretics and
erroneous persons, yet is such a truth, that almost all the holy
scriptures of God point at and centre in it.
There is a poor dry and wrinkled kernel cast into the ground; and
there it lieth, swelleth, breaketh, and, one would think, perisheth.
But behold, it receiveth life, it chippeth, it putteth forth a
blade, and groweth into a stalk. There also appeareth an ear; it
also sweetly blossoms, with a full kernel in the ear. It is the same
wheat; yet behold how the fashion doth differ from what was sown.
And our BRAN will be left behind, when we rise again. The body
ariseth, as to the nature of it, the self-same nature; but as to the
manner of it, how far transcendent! The glory of the terrestrial is
one, and the glory of the celestial is another.
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