A Treatise Concerning the State of Departed Souls, Before, and At, and After the Resurrection

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1739 Excerpt: ... the Son of Man he three Days and three Nights in the Heart of the Earth. This is sufficiently plain, and the Angel reproaches the Women who came to seek the Body of Christ in the Sepulchre, after he was risen, with the Forgetfulness of those Luc. xxiv. Things: He is not here but is risen: Re3"' member how he Jpake unto you when he was yet in Galilee, faying, the Son of Man must be delivered into the Hands of fins ul Men, and be crucified, and the third Day rife again: And jlnd they remembered his Words; as likewise Jl1-»" did his Disciples. Nor did he only by Signs and Parables, but very often by express Words, foretel both his Death and his Resurrection, and that each of them would be spontaneous. "Therefore Joh. x.iS. "doth my Father love me, because I lay ' down my Life, that I might take it again No Man taketh it from me, but I lay it "down of myself: I have Power to lay it down, and I have Power to take it up again." Then he says afterwards, "A little while Jh xvL "and ye shall not fee me; and again a lit--"tie while and ye shall lee me, because I "go to the Father;" which he afterwards shews is meant of his Death, and of his second Coming. And this Power that he had, when he pleased to use it, of preserving his Life safe and inviolable, appeared as clear as the Meridian Sun in a bright Day, when his Enemies coming upon him, he all of a sudden rendered himself invisible, and them confounded and impotent. Nay, by the Virtue of his Jo!i. viil. Look alone, by the very radiant Light of his 59-. Countenance, he terrify'd and dispirited those who came with a Design to destroy him. Lastly, in his Transfiguration upon the ho-M«-xyu. ly Mountain, he converted himself whol-Jovxvl-ly into a vital F...