1 Corinthians 15

Thus death gives a believer his Quietus est; it frees him from sin and trouble. Though the Apostle calls death the last enemy (1 Corinthians 15), yet it is the best friend: to me to die is gain. Use 1. See here that which may make a true saint willing to die: death will set him…

16. We glorify God when we give God the glory of all we do: Herod when he had made an oration, and the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a God, and not of a man; and he took this glory to himself, the text says, Immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because…

When I go in the streets, and hear the language of some, I think of the man in the gospel, who had the spirit of an unclean devil in him (Luke 4:33). Men's lips do not drop as the honeycomb, but they drop poison to the defiling of others (1 Corinthians 15:33). It is a sign when…

Not in another flesh, but my flesh. 1 Corinthians 15:53. This corruptible shall put on incorruption. Question 2. By what arguments may the resurrection be proved?

Herod instead of hallowing God's name, stained the honor of his name in assuming that praise to himself which was due to God (Acts 12:23). We ought to take the honor from ourselves and give it to God (1 Corinthians 15:10): I labored more than they all. One would think this had s…

3. We show honor to our Heavenly Father, by ascribing the honor of all we do to him. 1 Corinthians 15:10. I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was in me. If a Christian has any assistance in duty, any strength against corruption, he rear…

Take heed of any unseemly word that may enkindle unclean thoughts in yourselves or others. (1 Corinthians 15:33) Evil communications corrupt good manners. Impure discourse is the bellows to blow up the fire of lust.

Answ. 1. As it is a means to prevent sin, no sword like this to cut asunder the sinews of temptation; it is almost impossible to sin presumptuously with the lively thoughts and hopes of Heaven: It was when Moses was out of sight that Israel set up a calf and worshipped it; so it…

5. Has God pardoned you? Do all the service you can for God (1 Corinthians 15:58). Always abounding in the work of the Lord.

The contemplating heaven would put us upon the study of holiness, because none but such are admitted into that kingdom: heaven is not like Noah's Ark, into which came clean beasts and unclean; only the pure in heart shall see God (Matthew 5:8). (3.) The meditation of the heavenl…

1. Christ is said to die, to give himself, to be delivered, [in non-Latin alphabet] &c. for us, for his sheep, for the life of the world; for sinners (John 6:51, chapter 10:15, Romans 5:6, 2 Corinthians 5:14, 15, Galatians 2:20, Hebrews 2:9). Moreover he is said to die [in non-L…

4. That he answered the Law and the penalty of it (Romans 8:3): "God sent forth his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh; that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us" (Galatians 3:13): "Christ has redeemed us from the curse…

Yes, and we may now find some tracks or footsteps of this truth in the very nature of the first Covenant: it seems to intimate that there was some room left there for such a transaction by a surety, because God dealt with man at first in Adam as in a surety, and he it was that l…

Q. But is it not a shame for persons of years to be catechized? A. It is a shame, and justly reprovable as a sin, when persons grown to years are so ignorant as to have need to be catechized (Hebrews 5:12, 13; 1 Corinthians 15:34). Q. But how if they be not willing to be catechi…

Q. And what is his exaltation in respect of his manhood? A. It consists partly in laying aside all those infirmities which it had been subject to in the time of humiliation by hunger, thirst, weariness and the like, which are all of them removed and done away (1 Corinthians 15:4…

Q. How long shall this sitting of Christ at God's right hand continue? A. Until all his enemies be made his footstool (Psalm 110:1; 1 Corinthians 15:25). Q. Shall it never cease and have an end?

Q. If these things be vouchsafed to believers in this life, what shall they have in the life to come? A. Unspeakable glory and happiness in the immediate fruition of communion with God and Christ to all eternity (Colossians 3:4; 1 John 3:2; Hebrews 12:23; 1 Corinthians 15:28). Q…

Q. How may that appear? A. In that by this means he brought sin and misery upon them all (Romans 5:12, 18, 19; 1 Corinthians 15:22). Q. Why should this sin of Adam bring the guilt of sin and misery upon all his posterity?

The wounds of the guilt of sin are as deadly and as strong as the lusts of its power, and it requires as great a power to dissolve and scatter them. For all the strength that the law and God's justice has, sin also has to back it — 'for the strength of sin is the law' (1 Corinth…

Now to die in faith, is to die in an assured estate of glory and happiness; which is that, that every man desires: therefore, as we all desire it, so let us die in faith, and we shall attain unto it. Saint Paul tells us, 1 Corinthians 15:55, Death is a terrible serpent, for he h…

The faith and baptism that these twelve had received from John, or his Disciples' ministry, though it was a saving faith all the days of John and his Disciples' ministry, yet it was not a saving faith after the death, and resurrection, and ascension of Christ into glory, in the…

2. As by his Death, Resurrection, and entrance into Glory he gave a pledge, example, and evidence to the Church of that in his own person, which he had designed for it; so the grounds of it were laid in the expiatory sacrifice which he offered, whereby he took away the curse fro…

Deuteronomy 19:15. At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall the matter be established, that is, 2 Corinthians 13:1. shall every word be established. Psalm 110:1. Until I make your enemies your footstool, that is, 1 Corinthians 15:25. all your enemies. Therefore the Apostle b…

But they have lost the understanding of their own tradition. This belonged to the bondage under which it was the will of God to keep that people, that they should dread death as an effect of the curse of the law, and the fruit of sin, which is taken away in Christ (Hebrews 2:14;…

They were the shadow, he the body or substance, as he speaks elsewhere. He was the Lord from Heaven; who is in Heaven, who speaks from Heaven (1 Corinthians 15:49; John 3:13). (2) All spiritual and eternal grace, mercy, blessings, whereof the souls of men are made partakers by t…

So he was seen of Stephen standing at the right hand of God (Acts 7). So he appeared to Paul (1 Corinthians 15:8). But as to the state of the Church in general, and in the discharge of his mediatory office, he is not seen of any.

And this he testified to them (John 8:24): I said therefore to you, that you shall die in your sins; for if you believe not that I am he, you shall die in your sins; and that because they rejected the promise of God made to the Fathers concerning him, which was the only foundati…

Yes, none have greater hopes for the most part than such as have no faith at all. The great use, benefit and advantage which believers have by this grace, is the supporting of their souls under the troubles and difficulties which they meet withal upon the account of the professi…

(3.) Their eternal disposal by the will of Christ, according as his glory shall be manifested therein. Sin, death, the grave, and hell, as to their opposition to the Church, shall be utterly destroyed (1 Corinthians 15:55, 56, 57), and there shall be no more death. Satan and Ant…

And as ascribed to the new state of things under the Gospel, it does not signify eternity absolutely, but a certain unchangeable duration to the end of the time and works of the Gospel. For then shall the exercise of the Priesthood of Christ cease, with his whole mediatory work…

Therefore the great end which God will ultimately effect, being his own glory in Christ, and the salvation of the elect by him, the wisdom whereby it was contrived must needs be eminent and glorious. So the Apostle tells us, "Then is the end when Christ shall have delivered up t…

The Lord Christ will have the life in himself, the divine life to all eternity; and so also will be the life of glory in the human nature. But he shall cease to live this mediatory life for us, when the work of his mediation is accomplished (1 Corinthians 15:28). But he shall le…

Had it not died, death would have borne rule over all to eternity. But in the death thereof, it was swallowed up in victory (1 Corinthians 15:55, 56, 57). As it was subject to death and died actually, so it was meet to be raised again from death.

But we are in the next place to be advised, that having first believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, that we may be justified, we do then abound in those good works, which are the proper and genuine symptoms of believers; those good works, which the oracles of Heaven call, the fruit…

1. Jesus Christ is a King: as he is a Prophet and a Priest, so he is a King. Psalm 2:6. Acts 17:7. 1 Timothy 6:14, 15. 1 Corinthians 15:25. He is the blessed and only potentate, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and he must reign: and let his Kingdom come.

For whereas Christ says of himself that he descended from heaven (John 3:13), his speech must be understood in respect of his Godhead, which may be said in some sort to descend, in that it was made manifest in the manhood here upon earth. And whereas Paul calls him heavenly and…

1. Such an one is bound not to join with any church or society where any fundamental article of faith is rejected or corrupted. There may be a fundamental error in a true church for a season, when the church errs not fundamentally (1 Corinthians 15; 2 Timothy 2:18). But I suppos…

Now when you think God accepteth you rather then others for some worth and good qualities that he seeth in you more then others; it may be in this light of the Gospel which we now enjoy such thoughts are not expressed, but if they lurk secretly in the heart, you think God foresa…

Because when God gives man power to will good things, then he can will them: and when he gives him a power to do good, then he can do good, and he does it. For though there be not in man's conversion a natural cooperation of his will with God's spirit, yet is there a supernatura…

A saint need not fear to put his hand boldly into it — it has left and lost its sting in the sides of Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:55: 'O death, where is your sting?' Why are you afraid, O saint, that this sickness may be your death — as long as you know that the death of Christ is…

The honor and dignity of Jesus Christ there spoken of, has place not only in this world, but in that which is to come. But the kingdom and government which is given to Christ as Mediator, shall not continue in the world to come (for when Christ has put his enemies under his feet…

So at last, and then bringing both body and soul together to complete glory. And the congruity of reason that is for this appointment, is observable, something like to that (1 Corinthians 15). As by man came death, so by man came also the resurrection from the dead.

It became him (says he) (Hebrews 2:10). For whom are all things, and by whom are all things, etc. And so in the point of the resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:21). Since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead; that is, it was congruous, harmonious, it shou…

No natural infirmities hang about glorified bodies, nor sinful ones upon perfected spirits of the just. Oh what lovely creatures will they appear to you then, when that which is sown in dishonor shall be raised in honor (1 Corinthians 15)! Fourth, you shall have an everlasting e…

That is, it gives power to Sin to slay the hopes of the sinner, and to distress him with the apprehension of guilt and death. For the strength of Sin is the Law (1 Corinthians 15:56). The power it has to disquiet and condemn sinners, is in and by the Law.

Both the Devil, and sin, which is his work, are to be destroyed not appeased (Hebrews 2:14; 1 John 3:8). But the strength of sin is the law (1 Corinthians 15:56), that is, through the righteous sentence of God, we were held by the law obnoxious to the condemning power of sin. Fr…

They purpose to live as they have done, and give themselves the same liberty in sin as before, and will not know God, or be acquainted with him, lest they should be drawn off from their resolved sinful course. For the knowledge of God, and a course of sin are inconsistent things…

XIII. Relying on this persuasion, they encouraged one another to commit every crime. Hence the saying passed into a proverb — "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die" — which the apostle records (1 Corinthians 15:32). Nothing occurs more frequently in the poets.

That He Himself crushed the head of that serpent, the Socinians will not deny, I think. See John 12:31, 14:30; Luke 10:18; 1 Corinthians 15:54; Hebrews 2:14; 1 John 3:8; but of these things elsewhere. The Vulgate translator has ipsa conteret — "she shall bruise" — and from this…

So that whenever we want any office of Pastor, Teacher, Elder, Deacons, or the right calling or execution of it, in exhortation, doctrine, watching, Ecclesiastical censure, or the order of them, or the gifts fit for them, and the power of them, we must beg them according to the…