Preached upon Easter-day. [1622]

              preached upon easterday raster easier easter dap day 1622 I1 ITHES THES 4417 4.17 41717 THEN WE WHICH ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN SHALL BE CAUGHT UP TOGETHER WITH THEM IN THE CLOUDS TO MEET THE LORD IN THE THEAYRE ayee AYRE dyre AND SO SHALL WE BE EVER WITH THE LORD N THIS epistle our apostle according to his manner in all his INepistles first establishes those to whom he writes in those mat- ters of faith in which he had formerly instructed them and then rectifies rectified rectifies them in matter of manners of holinesse linesse ho of life and the wayes and fruits of sanctification in this last part of this chapter he involves he wraps up both together a fundamentall fundamentals Fundamentall point the resurrection of the dead and then an instruction for manners arising out of that that they mourn not intemperately for the dead as they do saith he which have no hope of seeing them again who are gone for we know that they which are gone are gone but into another room of the same house this world and the next do but make up god a house they are gone but into another pue of the same church the militant and the triumphant do but make up god a church if we beleave beleeve that lesus dyed and rose again sayes our apostle even so them also which sleep in lesus will god bring with him with him for howsoever they have lien ingloriously in the dust all this while all this while they have been with god and he shall bring them with him but the thessalonians Thessalonians were not so hard in beleeving believing beleeving the resurrection as curious in enquiring the order of the resurrection and as among the corinthians some inquired de modo 1