A Body of Divinity, Vol. 3 (of 4): Wherein the doctrines of the Christian religion are explained and defended, being the substance of several lectures on the Assembly's Larger CatechismRidgley, Thomas
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A Body of Divinity, Vol. 3 (of 4): Wherein the doctrines of the Christian religion are explained and defended, being the substance of several lectures on the Assembly's Larger Catechism
_The triumphant death of some saints_ 285
_Sinners filled with wrath here_ 288
_Inferences from those terrors_ 290
_And from the saints present joy_ 291
QUEST. LXXXIV, LXXXV. Of Death 292
_Death, the appointment of God_ 293
_Redounds to the saints advantage_ 297
_Its empire universal_ 294
_Its time uncertain_ 295
_Its sting is sin_ 297
_How it should be improved_ 295
_Its effects on the Spirit, a note_ 300
QUEST. LXXXVI. Of the saints Communion with Christ in glory after death
301
_Of the immortality of the soul_ 302
_How this is to be understood_ _ibid._
_Asserted by some Heathens_ 303
_Denied or questioned by others_ 304
_Proved from scripture_ 307
_Objections answered_ 310
_A note_ 311
_The saints perfected at death_ 312
_Of purgatory_ 313
_No proof for it in scripture_ 314
_Heaven the only paradise after death_ 316
_Of the soul’s sleeping at death_ 318
_How this notion is explained_ 320
_How to be opposed_ _ibid._
_Proved to be false from scripture_ 321
_The soul, at death, waits for the full redemption of the body_ 324
_The miseries which the souls of the wicked shall then endure_ 325
QUEST. LXXXVII. Of the doctrine of the Resurrection 326
_The Resurrection not contrary to reason_ 328
_Clearly revealed in scripture_ 329
_Fabulous accounts, by Heathens, of persons raised from the dead_ 330
_Certain accounts of it in scripture_ 330
_The Resurrection proved_
_From the Old Testament_ 332
_An emblem of it in_ Ezek. xxxvii. 1, _& seq._ 335
_From_ Job xix. 25-27. 337
_From_ Chap. xiv. 13-15. 339
_From_ Dan. xii. 2. 340
_The_ Jews _belief of it_ 335
Abraham’s _belief of it_ 341
_From the New Testament_ 342
_From scripture-consequences_ 345
_From Christ’s dominion_ 346
_Objections answered_ 348
_The Resurrection universal_ 353
Jews _speak obscurely of it_ 355
_The saints shall be raised in glory_ 356
_How raised by the Spirit_ 357
_The saints found alive at Christ’s coming shall be changed_ 356
QUEST. LXXXVIII. Of the general and final Judgment 359
_A sense of it impressed on conscience_ 360
_Christ shall be the Judge_ 362
_The solemnity of his appearing_ 363
_The manner of his proceeding_ 367
_The persons to be judged_ 365
_Fallen angels, and all men_ 366
_The place of Judgment_ 372
_The time of it_ 373
_The matter of it_ 369
_Whether the sins of the saints shall be published_ 371
_Practical inferences_ 374
QUEST. LXXXIX. Of the Punishment of the wicked 376
_The punishment of sin in hell_ 377
_Of loss, and sense_ 378
_Its degree and duration_ 379
_How these subjects should be insisted on_ 381
QUEST. XC. Of the Privileges and Honours of the saints at the last day
382
_They shall be acknowledged and acquitted_ 383
_They shall judge the world, and angels_ 384
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