The prophet of Judah could tell by this what God would do
to Bethel for the idolatry there committed, and could also point out
the man by name that should do the execution, long before he was
born.
What shall I say? Enoch by it could tell what should be done at the
end of the world. How did the prophets circumstantially prophesy of
Christ's birth, his death, his burial, of their giving him gall and
vinegar, of their parting his raiment and piercing his hands and
feet, of his riding on an ass also. All this they saw when they
spake of him. Peter also, though half asleep, could at the very
first word call Moses and Elias by their names, when they appeared
to Christ in the holy mount. He is very ignorant of the operation of
the Spirit that scrupleth these things.
But now, I say, if these things have been done, seen, and known by
spiritual men while their knowledge has been but "in part," how
shall we know, see, and discern, when "that which is perfect is
come!" which will be at the resurrection: "It is raised a spiritual
body."
Paul said to the Philippians that he was confident that he who had
begun a good work in them, would perform it until "the day of
Christ." Which day of Christ was not the day of their conversion,
for that day was past with them already, they were now the children
of God; but this day of Christ is the same which in other places is
called the day when he shall come with the sound of the last trump
to raise the dead.
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